The Blue Iguana


The Blue Iguana is a 1988 American crime comedy film directed by John Lafia and starring Dylan McDermott, Jessica Harper, Pamela Gidley and James Russo. The plot is about a bounty hunter who is blackmailed into stopping the transfer of twenty million dollars from a Mexican tax paradise into the United States. The film was screened out of competition at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.

Plot

IRS agents send a private eye to Mexico to recover money laundered by a banker and her sidekick.

Cast

Reception

Roger Ebert gave The Blue Iguana a negative review and described it as "a smart-aleck parody of private-eye movies, but it knows as little about private eyes as it does about parodies, and movies".