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Name: A Better Way to Die
Genre: Thriller, Action, Crime
Released: 2000-10-01
Duration: 96 min

Release, runtime and language: 2000 · 96 mins · English; #17,411 11
Starring: Joe Pantoliano, Jack Conley, Carmen Argenziano, Jeanine Basinger, Andre Braugher, Lou Diamond Phillips

Rookie officer Boomer patrols the gritty streets of downtown Chicago. A drug bust that kills his mentor Carlos leaves him disillusioned, so he resigns and plans to return to Joliet, where his fiancée Kelly waits. En route, he stops to aid a stranded motorist, is knocked unconscious, awakens robbed and thrust into a perilous case of mistaken identity.

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