WALKER

A hallucinatory biopic that breaks all cinematic conventions, WALKER tells the story of nineteenth-century American adventurer—and apostle of Manifest Destiny—William Walker (Ed Harris), who abandoned a series of sordid careers to become a soldier of fortune and, for many months, the dictator of Nicaragua where he re-legalized slavery.

Made with mad abandon and political acuity—and the support of the Sandinista army and government during the contra war—the film uses this true tale as a satirical attack on American imperialism and a freewheeling condemnation of the narcissistic, nihilistic self-destruction at the heart of all American ideology. Brutal, trenchant, and unsettlingly surreal, it’s frankly hard to believe that Alex Cox, director of REPO MAN, was able to get this movie produced in the 1980s by a major motion picture studio.

“A six-million-dollar middle finger. The ideal way to tank your career.” - Michael DeForge