I Shot a Man in Vegas

I Shot a Man in Vegas is a 1995 crime thriller film written and directed by Keoni Waxman and starring John Stockwell and Janeane Garofalo.

The film follows five friends dealing with a getaway after one of them guns down another and dumps the corpse into the trunk of a car.

On a night of youthful carousing in Las Vegas, a scuffle erupts between hustler Johnny and his friend Grant in an alley.

After the incident, the survivors take off across the Nevada desert toward the California border and their different viewpoints on what happened are chronicled via flashback.

Storytelling with a camera seems to come naturally for Waxman, who matches an easy visual flair with an equally effective way with actors and dialogue... Waxman has chosen well his cameraman Steven Finestone, endlessly resourceful and dynamic yet fluid, and his composer Shark, whose spare, mood-setting score is superior to many in far more expensive movies.