Crime thriller

Keys to Tulsa (1997): Cast, Box Office & Plot

Name: Keys to Tulsa
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1997-04-11
Duration: 1 h 53 min
Cast: Eric Stoltz, Mary Tyler Moore, Cameron Diaz, James Spader, Deborah Kara Unger

Keys to Tulsa is a 1997 crime thriller directed by Leslie Greif, starring Eric Stoltz as Richter Boudreau, Mary Tyler Moore and Cameron Diaz. It runs 1 hour 53 minutes and earned $57,252 worldwide.

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Released: April 11, 1997
Runtime: 1h 53m (113 min)
Director: Leslie Greif
Genres: Crime , Drama , Thriller
Original language: English
Studio: ITC Entertainment
After the credits: No No extra scene

The story

What Is Keys to Tulsa About?

The premise of Keys to Tulsa without spoilers. The whole story is in the plot summary further down.

Murder, blackmail and deceit swirl in a small town where Richter Boudreau, living in the shadow of his famous mother, has just lost his job as the town paper’s film critic. A dangerous proposition pulls him into a blackmail scheme, and his friend Ronnie convinces him to help steal the inheritance of Ronnie’s wife, Vicky.

Keys to Tulsa Themes & Keywords

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dysfunctional family
stripper
based on novel
neo noir
city name in title
male nudity
male frontal nudity
female full frontal nudity
female rear nudity
brief male frontal nudity
pubic hair
male pubic hair

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blackmail
drug dealer
sex in bed
extramarital affair
adulterous wife
strip club
public nudity
female frontal nudity
adultery
murder
female nudity
independent film
male objectification
artistic strip
n word
nude photograph
gun
money owed
husband wife relationship
reference to sammy davis jr.
nyctophobia
power outage
hundred dollar bill
racial joke
tornado warning
playing electric guitar
colt revolver
feigning suicide
stage show
exotic dancer
late for an appointment
remarried
incest
caught having sex
forced to play russian roulette
forced to pose for a sex photograph
lounging on a beach
restaurant

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Cast & crew

Keys to Tulsa Cast & Characters

Eric Stoltz leads the cast as Richter Boudreau, with Mary Tyler Moore as Cynthia Boudreau and Cameron Diaz as Trudy. Directed by Leslie Greif; 11 actors are credited in all.

Director Leslie Greif

Eric Stoltz as Richter Boudreau
Mary Tyler Moore as Cynthia Boudreau
Cameron Diaz as Trudy
James Spader as Ronnie Stover

Also Starring in Keys to Tulsa

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Deborah Kara Unger Vicky Michaels Stover
Michael Rooker Keith Michaels
Joanna Going Cherry
James Coburn Harmon Shaw
Marco Perella Bedford Shaw
Peter Strauss Chip Carlson
Alex Morris Policeman

From the director

More from Leslie Greif

More films directed by Leslie Greif, best-rated first: Funny Money and 10 Rules for Sleeping Around.

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Plot

Keys to Tulsa Plot Summary

What happens in Keys to Tulsa from start to finish, spoilers included, with a timeline of 12 key events. The opening is below; the full summary is a 5-minute read.

Spoilers ahead

Richter Boudreau, Eric Stoltz, is a perpetual loser and slacker from a privileged Tulsa background who works as a movie reviewer at a local newspaper—a job his mother, Mary Tyler Moore, pulled strings to secure. The opening panorama of his life paints a man who is deeply dissatisfied with the direction of his days: he’s about to be fired for missing deadlines, lives in a dilapidated farmhouse that mirrors his financial decay, and moves through a tainted world of drugs and small-scale hustling just to scrape by. An electricity cut-off punctuates his latest misfortune, a cruel reminder that his privileges have never quite translated into responsibility.

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