Palmetto

Palmetto (1998) is a sun-baked neo-noir you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Volker Schlöndorff. Woody Harrelson plays an ex-con who really should have known better.

Fresh out of prison after two years on a frame-up, Harry Barber grabs the easy money: a dying millionaire's wife wants him to fake-kidnap her stepdaughter and pick up the ransom. One phone call, one drop, one quiet walk away. Harry figures it's a clean little grift — right up until he realizes the whole scheme was built to pin a corpse on him.

Adapted from James Hadley Chase's novel Just Another Sucker, the film runs on Harrelson's specialty: a guy convinced he's the sharpest mind in a room full of sharks. Gina Gershon, Elisabeth Shue and a very young Chloë Sevigny crank up the swampy Florida sleaze. Stream Palmetto (1998) online on iFILM.