Domino (2005)
biography
directed
by : Tony Scott
featuring
: Keira Knightley - Mickey Rourke - Edgar Ramirez - Delroy Linda - Mo'nique
running
time : 2 hours 8 minutes
Keira Knightley stars in the title role
of this Tony Scott action comedy that offers an openly fictionalized account
of the life of bounty hunter Domino Harvey. In the film, the restless Domino
rejects the privileged life she has been given as the daughter of actor
Laurence Harvey (Jesse Pate), who dies when she is only eight, and Ford
model Paulene Stone (Jacqueline Bisset). Despite being both beautiful and
clever, Domino also bucks against her own budding career as a Ford model,
and recklessly rebels from both boarding school and college. She is fun-loving
to the point of volatility, but after taking a class offered by "bail recovery
agent" Ed Moseby (Mickey Rourke), she joins up with him and his partner
Choco (Edgar Ramirez) to form a three-person team. This rough and tumble
occupation provides Domino with a satisfying adrenaline-oriented lifestyle
as well as the flattering attention of Choco, who immediately "fancies"
her. Soon, talk of an English rose chasing down Southern California's worst
drug dealers and murderers with a massive firearm begins to spread, and
Domino's reputation begins to reach urban-legendary proportions. At this
point she is approached by television executive Mark Heiss (Christopher
Walken) who proposes a reality TV series based on her life as a bounty
hunter. Soon after the project begins, however, complications during a
job land her in a tight spot with both the mob and the FBI, and she is
forced to give her own account of the events -- an account which the audience
is unable to verify. The unreliability of Domino's story in the film serves
as a tongue-in-cheek parallel of the tabloid representation of the real
Domino Harvey, who accused multiple publications of misrepresenting her,
and was reportedly considering suing several media outlets before her death
on June 27, 2005, of a suspected drug overdose.