Movie Info: Palmetto (1998)

Director: Volker Schlöndorff

Writer: E. Max Frye, James Hadley Chase

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

After serving two years in prison for accepting a bribe—a charge he maintains was false—former newspaper reporter Harry Barber is released, harboring bitterness and a desire for revenge. He takes on a job arranged by Mrs. Malroux to stage the kidnapping of her stepdaughter, the daughter of a dyi...