Paris Trout (1991)

Paris Trout is a vile Southern bigot He owns a store and is a loanshark He often sues people and so his lawyer Harry Seagraves eventually meets Paris wife Hannah A former schoolteacher she made the mistake of her life when she married Paris who brutalizes her Soon Paris goes beyond the overgenerous bounds of what a man in his position can get away with even in the segregated South leading to a spiral of perverse insanity