After hearing that his wife sleeps with Clay, Earl kills himself, making it look like Clay shot him. The widow doesn't like it when Clay starts sees another woman instead. Bodies start pilin... Read allAfter hearing that his wife sleeps with Clay, Earl kills himself, making it look like Clay shot him. The widow doesn't like it when Clay starts sees another woman instead. Bodies start piling up.After hearing that his wife sleeps with Clay, Earl kills himself, making it look like Clay shot him. The widow doesn't like it when Clay starts sees another woman instead. Bodies start piling up.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Nicole Arlyn
- Gloria
- (as Nikki Arlyn)
Kari White
- Dolores
- (as Kari Peterson)
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAgent Dale Shelby spends the night in a hotel room with three films taken from Amanda's house. The films are Alien (1979), which was directed by Ridley Scott, who was a producer on this film; True Romance (1993) which was directed by Ridley's brother Tony Scott, who was an executive producer on this film; and Swingers (1996) which starred Vince Vaughn.
- GoofsThe shoulder flashes on Sheriff Mooney's uniform reads "Mercer County Sheriff's Dept.", but the decal on the SUV that Mooney is seen driving reads "Davis County Sheriff".
- Quotes
Sheriff Mooney: Promise me something there, will you?
Clay Bidwell: What's that?
Sheriff Mooney: Promise you'll stop finding dead people.
- Crazy creditsAt the end of the closing credits Lester Long says "You gotta good sense of humor, I like that" and does his bizarre laugh.
- Alternate versionsDutch video version oddly has all expletives erased or edited. Shot of naked corpse floating in water has been censored.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Siskel & Ebert: Ronin/Pecker/Clay Pigeons/Urban Legend/Shadrach (1998)
Featured review
I usually don't read many comments here at IMDb before I have seen a certain film, I only read a few. But before I saw "Clay Pigeons" I read them all and after having done so I didn't exactly expect much when I pushed "play" on the remote control. I'm not saying that that is the only reason why I liked this movie so much, because I really thought that it was a good film. Not a masterpiece of course, but the script is witty, the acting great, and the movie in itself is quite entertaining -- it's never boring. I really, really like Joaquin Phoenix, he is one of the best young actors around now, and he didn't disappoint me in this film -- far from it. He's quite brilliant. Vince Vaughn must have had a great time playing Lester Long, you can see that he is comfortable with his character and Vaughn is better than I'd ever expected, however, for me it's Phoenix's film. He truly is amazing. As for Janeane Garofalo, she's certainly not bad, but neither very good, but that's mainly because she's in the shadow of Vaughn and Phoenix. Overall, an entertaining and rather funny film, way better than I expected. (7/10)
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- Also known as
- In Too Deep
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- Budget
- $8,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,794,086
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $167,364
- Sep 27, 1998
- Gross worldwide
- $1,794,086
- Runtime1 hour 44 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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