2 Days in the Valley

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2 Days in the Valley

Directed by	John Herzfeld
Produced by	Herb Nanas Jeff Wald
Written by	John Herzfeld
Starring	James Spader Danny Aiello Peter Horton
Music by	Anthony Marinelli Erin O'Hara
Cinematography	Oliver Wood
Editing by	Jim Miller Wayne Wahrman
Distributed by	MGM
Release date(s)	1996
Running time	104 min.
Country	USA
Language	English Vietnamese
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2 Days in the Valley is a 1996 film, directed by John Herzfeld, about 48 hours in the lives of a group of people who are drawn together by a murder. Several parallel story lines overlap one another in the film.

[edit] Plot

The introductory storyline involves hitmen Lee Woods (James Spader) and Dosmo Pizzo (Danny Aiello). The two kill Roy Foxx (Peter Horton) while he lies in bed after they inject Roy's ex-wife, Becky (Teri Hatcher), with a tranquilizer. The day afterward, Woods turns on Pizzo, shooting him and blowing up their car in order to set him up as the fall guy. Woods flees the scene with his Norwegian girlfriend Helga (Charlize Theron).

Dosmo survives, seeking shelter at the house of Allan Hopper (Greg Crutwell), an arrogant art dealer who suffers from kidney stones. He takes Hopper and his meek assistant, Susan Parish (Glenne Headly), hostage. He is completely unaware of the fact that Hopper has called his older sister, Audrey (Marsha Mason), over to the house for medical help. On the way over to her brother's house, Audrey, a nurse, picks up Teddy Peppers (Paul Mazursky), a down and out TV producer contemplating suicide.

Meanwhile, Becky awakens in horror when she discovers Roy's body in bed beside her. She runs from her house and flags down two vice detectives (Eric Stoltz and Jeff Daniels) who happen to be driving through. Although he initially feels sympathetic, Wes Taylor (Stoltz) begins to feel suspicious, wondering if Becky knows more than she is telling. Later it is revealed that Becky hired Lee and Dosmo to kill Roy for $30,000. Becky, who was unaware that Lee planned to kill Roy in her own house, stashed the payment in her house. The divergent paths of the characters cross, with deadly consequences, after Lee decides to go back to the house to get the money.