The Movie: This film was written and directed by acclaimed screenwriter Robert Towne, but to be honest, I didn't really enjoy it all that much. Maybe I was just way too exhausted to be able to pay enough attention to the complex plot that's full of many subtle twists and turns.

From what I could gather, Mel Gibson plays a mostly-retired drug dealer who is old friends with a cop played by Kurt Russell. Both of these guys frequent a restaurant owned by Michelle Pfeiffer's character, because they both want to get into her pants.

Apparently Kurt Russel thinks Mel Gibson is going to be doing a huge drug deal with a bigwig from Mexico, and I think at some point Kurt starts thinking that Michelle Pfeiffer is in on it too.

Tequila Sunrise, like some of Robert Towne's other movies, leaves the audience guessing most of the time, because you can never tell who is being straight up, and who has ulterior motives, and what those motives are. I think for me that uncertainty just kept on going for so long that I started to not really care anymore about what the truth really was, and maybe that's why I didn't particularly enjoy this film all that much, although I didn't particularly dislike it either.

One thing I did enjoy for sure was the late great Conrad Hall's cinematography, for which he was nominated for an Oscar and won an ASC award.

The DVD: This is definitely your typical 1997 catalog DVD release. "Ringing" from excessive edge enhancement, crushed blacks, murky whites plague the video transfer. The audio exhibited sound quality consistent with your average analog recording from the 1980's. Special features consist of an audio commentary track by producer Thom Mount, and a bunch of text-based behind the scenes type stuff.