But if you're looking for something different, and you can stand a double onslaught of bad Southern accents, check 'em out. Banderas, the executive producer of this 1999 film that never made it to the big screen, cast himself in a new kind of role here. He's not the sexy matinee idol. He's Morales, a wily illegal immigrant from Mexico who's lending Brother Edgar a hand while boning up on immigration law and accident litigation.
Morales is a jailhouse lawyer in the making, and a loose cannon in the pinches.
They're a couple of common con men on the road and on the take, selling socks to the hayseed Arkansas characters they meet along the way. There's a load of jolly old country corn and a few jokes about Bill Clinton country. But before this road show ends, the fun turns a bit too nasty to be as much fun as it might be. The Flamingo Rising is CBS' Sunday detour into the colorful and the quirky. It's based on the novel by Larry Baker.