****SPOILERS**** The usually high-class and sophisticated Diane Keaton plays Pasty McCartle a cleaning lady and waitress holding down two jobs to pay the bills as well as paying for her asthmatic son Kevin's, Colin Roberts, medical expenses that's just about financially breaking her. It's when Pasty's girlfriend Cerrie Kilmer, Lynda Boyd, a full blown meth addict gets her to be a carrier of crystal meth for local dealer Hopkins, Michael Rooker, her already miserable life goes from bad to worse.
As Pasty is soon to find out who at first was making a nice dollar working for Hopkins that soon pays all her bills she's then forced by Hopkins to smoke the crystal meth for in order to get her addicted to it where he can, by providing her with the stuff, keep her under his control. Pasty finds out that being addicted to meth is a lot worse then selling or pushing it! As she ends up blowing all the money she made, which were in the thousands of dollars, working for Hopking. It's Pasty's older son Jason, Michael Seater, who realizes just how screwed up in the head she really is and tries to get her off the meth cold turkey style that almost causes her to drop dead from a heart attack.
***SPOILERS*** It's when Pasty reached rock bottom with her two sons about to leave her that she throws in the towel and reluctantly agrees to work for this DEA and local police to get the goods on Hopkins and put him behind bars. Things don't work out as planned with Hopkins getting the jump on the police by knocking off Pasty's friend and fellow meth addict Carrie, who was needed as a witness against him, as well as her meth snorting and blowing friends. That's when Hopkins finds that they've been holding out on him by skimming off the top and using the cash to buy crystal meth off a rival drug dealer. The final straw was when Hopkins kidnapped Pasty's two sons holding them hostage to keep her from informing on him as well as secretly taping, with a wire, his business transactions!
Hopkings ended up getting the worst of it when Pasty, not caring anymore to what's to happened to her, raided his secret crystal meth factory shotgun thus making things in hand making it really hot for him. Glad to be taken into custody by the police Hopkins was a lot better off then if Pasty got a chance to get him in the cross-hair of her shotgun and blow him straight to kingdom come. P.S were told that because of Pasty working with the police and DEA all but one of the 48 members of Hopkins drug gang ended up being convicted with her and her two sons put in the witness protection program which they still, now after some 15 years, are in today.
As Pasty is soon to find out who at first was making a nice dollar working for Hopkins that soon pays all her bills she's then forced by Hopkins to smoke the crystal meth for in order to get her addicted to it where he can, by providing her with the stuff, keep her under his control. Pasty finds out that being addicted to meth is a lot worse then selling or pushing it! As she ends up blowing all the money she made, which were in the thousands of dollars, working for Hopking. It's Pasty's older son Jason, Michael Seater, who realizes just how screwed up in the head she really is and tries to get her off the meth cold turkey style that almost causes her to drop dead from a heart attack.
***SPOILERS*** It's when Pasty reached rock bottom with her two sons about to leave her that she throws in the towel and reluctantly agrees to work for this DEA and local police to get the goods on Hopkins and put him behind bars. Things don't work out as planned with Hopkins getting the jump on the police by knocking off Pasty's friend and fellow meth addict Carrie, who was needed as a witness against him, as well as her meth snorting and blowing friends. That's when Hopkins finds that they've been holding out on him by skimming off the top and using the cash to buy crystal meth off a rival drug dealer. The final straw was when Hopkins kidnapped Pasty's two sons holding them hostage to keep her from informing on him as well as secretly taping, with a wire, his business transactions!
Hopkings ended up getting the worst of it when Pasty, not caring anymore to what's to happened to her, raided his secret crystal meth factory shotgun thus making things in hand making it really hot for him. Glad to be taken into custody by the police Hopkins was a lot better off then if Pasty got a chance to get him in the cross-hair of her shotgun and blow him straight to kingdom come. P.S were told that because of Pasty working with the police and DEA all but one of the 48 members of Hopkins drug gang ended up being convicted with her and her two sons put in the witness protection program which they still, now after some 15 years, are in today.