Nicolas Cage made his directing debut with this moody drama about a former gigolo (James Franco) who returns to his native New Orleans in the early 1980s after a stint in the Army, and reluctantly resumes working out of his mother's brothel. Cage also has a small role as a flamboyant Southern dandy. Brenda Blethyn, Harry Dean Stanton, Mena Suvari, Scott Caan, Seymour Cassel, Brenda Vaccaro.