Trixie Zurbo (Emily Watson) is a security guard who dreams of being a hard-boiled detective. She gets assigned an undercover job at a casino. Kirk Stans (Nathan Lane) is a performer. Dex Lang (Dermot Mulroney) is a slick regular who is taken with Trixie. He works for dirty land developer W. 'Red' Rafferty (Will Patton) and Dawn Sloane (Lesley Ann Warren) is Red's high maintenance girlfriend. Dex brings Trixie on a yacht and then his boss shows up with State Senator Drummond Avery (Nick Nolte). Ruby Pearli (Brittany Murphy) is a wild child local. A thug is looking for Dawn and Trixie decides to investigate. There's a sex tape and then a murder.
Emily Watson is probably wrong for the role especially if the movie really wants it to be a comedy. She's talking in a weird accent with wrong word usage. Her character is from Chicago and it's probably her version of a mid-western accent. The dialogue makes fun of her unwieldy handling of the English language. It's meant to be part of her quirk but it's oddly unreal. An easy solution is to make her a recent east European immigrant. Her bad English would be more understandable. This is trying to be a black comedy and murder mystery. The murder mystery is fine. Trixie's English skills are not. They are too deliberately quirky.
Emily Watson is probably wrong for the role especially if the movie really wants it to be a comedy. She's talking in a weird accent with wrong word usage. Her character is from Chicago and it's probably her version of a mid-western accent. The dialogue makes fun of her unwieldy handling of the English language. It's meant to be part of her quirk but it's oddly unreal. An easy solution is to make her a recent east European immigrant. Her bad English would be more understandable. This is trying to be a black comedy and murder mystery. The murder mystery is fine. Trixie's English skills are not. They are too deliberately quirky.