This World, Then the Fireworks is a 1997 American crime drama film directed by Michael Oblowitz and starring Billy Zane, Gina Gershon, and Sheryl Lee.

As children, Marty and Carol Lakewood, fraternal twins, witness a brutal murder involving their father.

Marty is a skillful journalist, but grows bored with every new job and is easily distracted.

Carol is a heartless prostitute, willing to go to any lengths to con men out of their money, or make them pay in other ways.

[4] Emanuel Levy of Variety wrote "In the hands of filmmaker Michael Oblowitz, novelist Jim Thompson's story This World, Then the Fireworks gets an elegantly stylish, highly erotic, intentionally over-the-top rendition".