- HD 1080
- Runtime: 114m.
- Status: Released
- 2
- Languages: en
- Country: Germany, United States of America
- Director: Volker Schlöndorff
- Stars: Woody Harrelson, Gina Gershon, Elisabeth Shue, Rolf Hoppe, Michael Rapaport
- keywords: based on novel or book, kidnapping, cigarette, femme fatale, scam, writer, framed for a crime, set up, temptation, newspaper reporter, ransom demand, rich daughter, neo-noir, rich wife, investigative reporter, sucker, kidnapping gone wrong, all evidence points to protagonist
- Production_studio: Castle Rock Entertainment, Code Entertainment, Rialto Films, Tobis, Columbia Pictures
- Slogan: In a town this bad, it's no use being good.
- The Palmetto is featured in the top rankings of 1998
- #56 in Top Crime Movies of 1998
- #54 in Top Thriller Movies of 1998
- #18 in Top Mystery Movies of 1998
After spending two years in prison, framed for accepting a bribe, former newspaper reporter Harry Barber is released, bitter and disillusioned. Feeling like he were owed something for his loss of time, he proceeds to get himself involved in a simple kidnapping plot which turns out to be more complex than he imagined.