In a small Montana town, Clay Bidwell finds himself increasingly surrounded by dead bodies, making him the chief suspect of an FBI murder investigation. The only way for Clay to set things straight is to beat one twisted individual at his own game of deceit and double-crossing.
25 May 1968, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
14 January 1975, Colchester, Essex, England, UK
29 March 1942, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
28 October 1974, San Juan, Puerto Rico
28 September 1964, Newton, New Jersey, USA
10 November 1970, Joliet, Illinois, USA
5 June 1975, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
16 July 1952, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
4 April 1959, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
24 November 1955, Los Angeles, California, USA
28 March 1970, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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July 26, 2014
Call this one Fargo Lite, and you won't be far off the mark.February 14, 2001
"You've got a sense of humor, I like that," Lester Long proclaims at one point. Well, we all like that, but would it be asking too much to have a little coherence to go along with it?January 01, 2000
Within Clay Pigeons is a smaller story that might have involved us more, but it's buried by overkill.March 26, 2009
Slanted as a black comedy, but fails to secure the sufficiently outre tone (let alone any real suspense) needed to make it more than a middling retread.January 01, 2000
A film that delights by confounding expectations.April 09, 2005
The boyishly braying laugh Vaughn punctuates his conversations with is a true actor's finesse on his character.April 02, 2005
Twisted and quietly addicting crime flick.May 27, 2005
An okay little High Plains Noir, but it unravels at the end.December 06, 2005
Vince Vaughn may play the two best movie serial killers this year if his Norman Bates rendition can match his performance in Clay Pigeons.December 31, 2004
Great performance by VaughnFebruary 09, 2006
This quirky comedy thriller, produced by Ridley Scott, is both blackly funny and, at times, tensely disturbing and quite macabre.January 01, 2000
Clay Pigeons may not actually be a good movie, but it has many of the ingredients of one.