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 (Dylan McDermott) to Mexico to recover money laundered by a banker (Jessica Harper) and her sidekick (James Russo).

Cast

 * Dylan McDermott as Vince Holloway
 * Jessica Harper as Cora
 * James Russo as Reno
 * Pamela Gidley as Dakota
 * Yano Anaya as Yano
 * Flea as Floyd
 * Michele Seipp as Zoe 'The Bartender'
 * Tovah Feldshuh as Detective Vera Quinn
 * Dean Stockwell as Detective Carl Strick
 * Katia Schkolnik as Mona
 * John Durbin as Louie Sparks
 * Eliett as Veronica
 * Don Pedro Colley as Boat Captain
 * Pedro Altamirano as Rubberhead
 * Benny Corral as Roy

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".