Flamboyant 'walker' (man who hangs out with older married women while their husbands are at work) Carter Page (Woody Harrelson) knows all the dirt about the seedy underbelly of D.C., and often shares his gossip with canasta players Lynn (Kristin Scott Thomas), Natalie (Lauren Bacall) and Abby (Lily Tomlin).
Everything is going well for him until Robbie (Steven Hartley) - a man 'closely associated' to Carter's friend Lynn - is murdered. To protect her, Carter claims that he discovered the body, and is immediately the police's number one suspect.
Soon all his high society friends abandon him, and he becomes more and more suspicious by the police. He has to clear his name before he's arrested for a crime he didn't commit.
While I enjoyed the premise of the film and the acting (especially by Harrelson, Thomas, Bacall and Tomlin), "The Walker" had a lot of down-time where I was struggling to not go do something else or take a nap. The dialog is witty and intelligent, but there's just those long pauses in the movie that you wonder...what the heck is going on? All in all, I would suggest you see the film once, but it will be enough.
Everything is going well for him until Robbie (Steven Hartley) - a man 'closely associated' to Carter's friend Lynn - is murdered. To protect her, Carter claims that he discovered the body, and is immediately the police's number one suspect.
Soon all his high society friends abandon him, and he becomes more and more suspicious by the police. He has to clear his name before he's arrested for a crime he didn't commit.
While I enjoyed the premise of the film and the acting (especially by Harrelson, Thomas, Bacall and Tomlin), "The Walker" had a lot of down-time where I was struggling to not go do something else or take a nap. The dialog is witty and intelligent, but there's just those long pauses in the movie that you wonder...what the heck is going on? All in all, I would suggest you see the film once, but it will be enough.