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19 May 1995 (USA) moreTagline:
Between good and evil and heaven and hell is... morePlot:
This film tells a bitter tale of a dysfunctional family. Joshua, a cold-blooded professional killer... more | add synopsisAwards:
3 wins & 5 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(4 articles)
Two Lovers Review (From Twitch. 12 February 2009, 9:11 PM, PST)
Greatness in the Making: Director James Gray
(From Cinematical. 12 February 2009, 10:02 AM, PST)
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Great Camera-work; Heady Content moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Tim Roth | ... | Joshua Shapira | |
| Edward Furlong | ... | Reuben Shapira | |
| Moira Kelly | ... | Alla Shustervich | |
| Vanessa Redgrave | ... | Irina Shapira | |
| Paul Guilfoyle | ... | Boris Volkoff | |
| Natalya Andrejchenko | ... | Natasha | |
| Maximilian Schell | ... | Arkady Shapira | |
| David Vadim | ... | Sasha | |
| Mina Bern | ... | Grandma Tsilya | |
| Boris McGiver | ... | Ivan | |
| Mohammed Ghaffari | ... | Pahlevi | |
| Michael Khmurov | ... | Yuri | |
| Dmitry Preyers | ... | Victor | |
| David Ross | ... | Anatoly | |
| Ron Brice | ... | Man with one leg |
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98 minCountry:
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2.35 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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USA:R | Iceland:16 | Australia:R | South Korea:18 | Finland:K-16 | France:-12 | Germany:16 (bw) | Netherlands:16 | Portugal:M/16 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:15Fun Stuff
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This film contains just 454 shots in about 92 minutes of action (i.e. excluding the credits). This equates to an average shot length of about 12 seconds. This is very long compared to the 3 - 6 second standard of most Hollywood films made in the 1990s. moreGoofs:
Revealing mistakes: In the scenes where Mr. Schell is supposedly speaking Russian, his language is unintelligible beyond the simplest words. moreQuotes:
Arkady Shapira: You know there is a saying: When a child is six years old, it says, "the father can do everything". When he's twelve, he says, "the father can almost do everything". When he's sixteen, he says, "the father is an idiot". When he's twenty-four, he says, "the father wasn't maybe such an idiot", and then, when he's forty, he says, "if I could only ask my father". But I'm afraid my sons will never ask themselves that. moreFAQ
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It's the camera-work which first impresses in this one. The shots are so well taken.
Roth is excellent, bordering on superb, and should win the Hugh Laurie Award for the best job done portraying (and sounding convincingly like) a 'north a-merican' by a Brit.
Are talents like Schell and Redgrave wasted? Hardly. More: their Russian is very good - something you wouldn't expect from a flick like this. Sometimes the language is almost overly simplistic but the accents are very good.
This is a taut thriller - a scary one - and there are scenes which may have you gasping because they're so stark. As in 'Casino was a Bugs Bunny movie'. Something like that. Is this good? That's another matter. A lot of this is lent by Roth's performance - he's a cold blooded killer and he plays it with more the poker face than Hopkins in Remains of the Day.
Denouement? Watch for it. When the movie's over you might miss the fact it's over. Is this a highly recommendable flick? Hard to say. Some excellent work here. But will you enjoy it? Benefit by it?
That's a much more difficult question.
PS. Hey IMDb! Stop correcting our spelling and giving us no chance to correct your incorrect corrections. Suggesting corrections is one thing; forcing them upon us is quite another.