On a crime-filled road trip from California, two ruthless drug dealers and a young woman hide out in a rural Arkansas town, where they expect little interference from the locals. But waiting for them are two LA cops and the local sheriff, nicknamed Hurricane, who hides a secret from his past.

The late Bill Paxton gives one of his finest performances as the small-town sheriff in over his head in this superlative neo-noir from director Carl Franklin. Paced to perfection, and with a roiling undercurrent of racial and sexual tension, One False Move is one of the great thrillers of the 1990s.