The cast of the new crime thriller film "Hard Rain," (L-R) Randy Quaid, Minnie Driver, Christian Slater and Morgan Freeman, pose together at the film's premiere January 13 at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. [The film, which opens January 16 in the United States, is about an armoured car heist set against the backdrop of a flood hitting a small Midwestern town. Slater was due to start a 90-day jail term on January 14 for beating his girlfriend and fighting police, who found him screaming in a hallway during a drug and alcohol bender in the summer of 1997].