‘The Big Easy’
Few leading actor couplings wonderfully scream ‘the 80s!’ more than Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin. And The Big Easy, released thirty years ago this week, is so much more than nostalgia, heaving with steamy intrigue, underhanded dealings, and, of course, a romance that seems unlikely at first but ultimately makes satisfying sense. All this and John Goodman and Ned Beatty, too.