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Article: Noir lite.(Film "Out of Time")(Movie Review)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- November 15, 2003
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IN Out of Time, Matt Whitlock (played by Denzel Washington), a police chief in a small Florida town, is sleeping with Ann Merai (Sanaa Lathan), his high school girl friend, now unhappily married to a local brute (Dean Cain). Ann can't catch a break: she learns that she has cancer, and she can't afford the only treatment that might save her life. So Matt lets her have a suitcase full of cash--the gleanings from a drug bust that his office is babysitting for the federal drug officers. He figures that the wheels of justice spin so slowly, he'll have enough time to replace it before the dealers come tip for trial.
That night Ann's house is torched, and her corpse and ...
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