Well literally, the defense did argue that it was an accident but they didn’t argue that another car hit her, which was the most obvious thing and best way to explain why somebody that the witness would have misidentified was even stopping there. The script should have had the boyfriend threaten her when they were arguing in front of people.

I did not know how the movie was going to end. Did you? The premise could have set up something alot different.

I haven’t seen anything De Palma did since Mission: Impossible, but for a movie that I’ve seen people “care about,” Femme Fetal at least. But it lost money. So did the next three movies. Domino didn’t get a U.S. release.
I’m looking at the costs and grosses on Wikipedia, which I know don’t tell the whole story regarding the entire cost of making the movie, or the money it made on home media (which can make box office failures financial successes in the long run). The last movie they have in the black is Mission to Mars
Budget $100 million
Box office $111 million

That’s still not worth tying up the money it cost to make. In the time he took to make those movies, Eastwood has made as many movies as DePalma made from 1979 until now.

I’m probably projecting, but The Mule felt like an acknowledgement that Eastwood had been letting the studios push him into whatever crap they wanted to see him make. Cry Macho would have had problems anyway, but it was probably a much more difficult shoot for him than Juror #2. A courtroom drama was probably a less draining experience for a director in his ’90s than a road movie that he also starred in.