Sunset (1988)

Directed by

Blake Edwards

Genre

comedy film, Western film, buddy film, mystery film, crime film, comedy thriller

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

R

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 112 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1920s Hollywood, Western actor Tom Mix teams up with legendary lawman Wyatt Earp to solve a murder. The film mixes comedy with a low-key mystery as the two characters navigate the film industry.

low-keyelegiacmysteriouscomedicperiodslow-pacedbuddynostalgic

What happens

Sunset is a 1988 American mystery western comedy film written and directed by Blake Edwards and starring Bruce Willis as Western actor Tom Mix, who teams up with lawman Wyatt Earp, portrayed for the second time in a theatrical film by James Garner. Based on an unpublished novel by Rod Amateau, the plot has Earp and Mix solve a murder in Hollywood in 1929. Although Sunset has some comedic elements, it veers much more to the period mystery genre of old Hollywood. Reviewers, such as Roger Ebert, struggled trying to define the film. Ebert noted: "The strangest thing about Sunset is that it's not a comedy, not exactly. It has some laughs, but it's a sort of low-key, elegiac mood film ..." While Willis received top billing in Sunset, Garner had more screen time in the film. This was the second and final film in which Garner played Wyatt Earp, the first being John Sturges's Hour of the Gun, released in 1967. This was director Edwards's second and final collaboration with Willis, whom he directed in Blind Date (1987). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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