It's 1948 and Los Angeles is booming, but Easy Rawlins (Denzel Washington) has seen better days. He has just been fired and his house payments are due, so when DeWitt Albright (Tom Sizemore) offers him a seemingly harmless job he jumps at the chance. All he has to do is track down the elusive Daphne Monet (Jennifer Beals), a mysterious beauty known to keep company on the wrong side of town. Soon he finds himself implicated in two murders and is forced to call upon an old friend, Mouse (Don Cheadle), who is all too familiar with the violent world Easy has landed himself in. Slowly drawn deeper and deeper into a web of blackmail, dirty cops and even dirtier politicians, the ways out for Easy become harder and harder to find...
Audio commentary with writer and director Carl Franklin (1999)
Dancing with the Devil (2018, 23 mins): archival interview with Franklin, conducted by the Film Noir Foundation's Eddie Muller at a screening of 'Devil in a Blue Dress'
Don Cheadle Screen Test (1994, 15 mins): videotape footage of the actor auditioning for the role of Mouse, with introduction by Franklin
Original theatrical trailer
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