The background of their story is populated with characters so well-drawn and with character actors so finely chosen that the movie is fascinating from moment to moment, even when nothing much seems to be happening. There also is, between Anne and Remy, one of the most erotic love scenes I ever have seen in a movie - all the more erotic because the two lovers do not perform like champions in the sexual Olympics, but come to bed with all the insecurity of people who are almost afraid to believe it could, this time, be for real.
He doesn't have a problem, for example, with the department's illegal "widows and orphans fund," because he's using the money to send his kid brother through college. He is an honest cop in the ways that really count and a dishonest cop in small ways he has been able to rationalize. Later we learn more about the system in New Orleans and come to understand more about Remy.
But when they go out to dinner and the restaurant owner won't think of accepting their money, Anne accuses Remy of being on the take and he accuses her of not understanding how the system operates. They meet over the dead body of a Mafia functionary, and of course they immediately are attracted to each other. The heroes of the film are two law enforcement officials: Remy ( Dennis Quaid), a vice cop, and Anne ( Ellen Barkin), a special prosecutor for the D.A.
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