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Blood and Wine is a american film of genre Drama directed by Bob Rafelson released in USA on 21 february 1997 with Jack Nicholson
Blood and Wine (1996)
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Add to a movie listBlood and Wine is a 1996 neo-noir thriller directed by Bob Rafelson from a screenplay written by Nick Villiers and Alison Cross. It features Jack Nicholson, Stephen Dorff, Jennifer Lopez, Judy Davis and Michael Caine. Rafelson has stated that the film forms the final part of his unofficial trilogy with Nicholson, with whom he made Five Easy Pieces and The King of Marvin Gardens in the 1970s.
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Alex Gates is a wealthy wine merchant who has distanced himself from his alcoholic wife Suzanne with his philandering, and from his stepson Jason with his indifference. Alex is heavily in debt, and cases the house of his clients, the Reese family. After he steals a valuable diamond necklace with the help of his Cuban mistress Gabriela and his safe-cracker partner Victor, things start to fall apart fast.Actors
Jack Nicholson
(Alex)
Stephen Dorff
(Jason)
Jennifer Lopez
(Gabriela)
Judy Davis
(Suzanne)
Michael Caine
(Victor)
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