A detective in post-Katrina New Orleans has a series of surreal encounters with a troop of friendly Confederate soldiers while investigating serial killings of local prostitutes, a 1965 lynching, and corrupt local businessmen.
Academy Award winner Tommy Lee Jones leads an all-star cast in this psychological thriller based on the bestselling novel by James Lee Burke. While on an investigation into a series of grisly murders, veteran detective Dave Robicheaux (Jones) navigates his way through the Louisiana bayou and the dark, sultry world of New Orleans mobster "Baby Feet" Balboni (John Goodman). Layers of corruption and long-dead secrets reawaken grudges and a lethal alliance A tangled web of killings, past and present, converges in a shocking showdown with stakes that become deeply personal to Robicheaux and his family. Featuring music from five-time GRAMMY Award-winner Buddy Guy, this film takes you deep into Cajun country's hidden worlds.
Women wear bikinis around a swimming pool. There is discussion of prostitution. A topless woman performs a pole dance for a man. (lasts less than 4 seconds)
Prostitution and prostitutes is a pervasive theme throughout this movie.
violence
Shootings. Several scenes involve one man roughing up or beating up on another man. A dead body is show in the morgue. A woman gets shot in the chest.
Numerous scenes depicting graphic violence; bloody fighting, assault with a baseball bat, assault with a handgun and, as mentioned above, a close-up slow motion scene of a woman getting shot in the chest. A man is shot several times in the chest.
One scene that shows a dead man lying in a pool of blood, another scene depicting the decomposed body of a woman in a barrel.
profanity
Maybe 2 dozen F words (mostly by John Goodman). Otherwise fairly clean.
alcohol
Drinking is shown. A man admits to being a alcoholic
