The Big Easy

Watch The Big Easy (1986) online on iFILM — a crime thriller set in New Orleans, directed by Jim McBride and starring Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin. Lieutenant Remy McSwain works the city's mean streets the way the city runs: loose, fast, and never too strictly by the book. Small favors from local crooks are just part of how things work down here.

Everything shifts when a sharp assistant district attorney arrives to investigate the department. Remy tries to play it smooth — and instead stumbles into a case involving serious drug money. He gets set up with surgical precision. Getting clear of the frame while holding any credibility in front of a woman who clearly sees through him proves harder than any collar he's ever made. Quaid and Barkin carry a chemistry that's actually the real story here. Stream The Big Easy (1986) on iFILM.