Silver City (2004)

When dim-witted Colorado gubernatorial candidate and son of a US senator Chris Cooper fishes up a corpse while making a campaign video, private investigator and ex-reporter Danny Huston is hired to investigate the case but also keep any of the candidate’s skeletons from making waves. It’s not Sayles’s best nor most enthralling work. Cooper is playing a character very similar to George W. Bush, being controlled by power and money behind the scenes. I had hoped to see much more of Cooper but the story rests with Huston meeting with a large cast of characters: Richard Dreyfus, Daryl Hannah, Kris Kristofferson, Miguel Ferrer, and more. At its core, it’s a twisty mystery that squanders it’s cast to take on more issues than it should: political corruption, corporate power, environmentalism, and undocumented workers.