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10 February 1995 (USA) moreTagline:
In this town, you're either one or the other morePlot:
Lady avenger returns to western town owned by a ruthless gunslinger hosting an elimination tournament. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
1 nomination moreNewsDesk:
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Discuss: Underrated Raimi (From Cinematical. 30 May 2009, 7:02 PM, PDT)
Sam Raimi: Auteur For A Day
(From Fangoria. 30 May 2009, 10:02 AM, PDT)
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Exaggerated, intense, beautiful, silly moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Sharon Stone | ... | Ellen "The Lady" | |
| Gene Hackman | ... | John Herod | |
| Russell Crowe | ... | Cort | |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | ... | Fee Herod "The Kid" | |
| Tobin Bell | ... | Dog Kelly | |
| Roberts Blossom | ... | Doc Wallace | |
| Kevin Conway | ... | Eugene Dred | |
| Keith David | ... | Sgt. Clay Cantrell | |
| Lance Henriksen | ... | Ace Hanlon | |
| Pat Hingle | ... | Horace | |
| Gary Sinise | ... | The Marshal | |
| Mark Boone Junior | ... | Scars | |
| Olivia Burnette | ... | Katie | |
| Fay Masterson | ... | Mattie Silk | |
| Raynor Scheine | ... | Ratsy |
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Rated R for western violence.Parents Guide:
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107 minLanguage:
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1.85 : 1 moreCertification:
Iceland:16 | Canada:14A (Ontario) | South Korea:15 | Philippines:R-18 | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Finland:K-16 | Germany:16 | Netherlands:16 | Norway:15 | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:RFun Stuff
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Continuity: After shooting Herod, Ellen has her gun held straight out, but as he raises his gun again, Ellen draws her gun again, with the same hand, without ever putting it back. moreQuotes:
Ellen: [female gunslinger walks up behind a preoccupied bartender] How about a room?Horace: Whores next door.
Ellen: [carefully sets her cigar down] Say that again.
Horace: I said whores next door.
Ellen: [kicks the stool out from under him, catches his liquor bottle as he falls, & pours herself a drink] Now, do you have a room available?
Horace: Uh, room and bath, yes, ma'am, coming up!
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Like all of Sam Raimi's movies, this flick was a cartoon. That's not an insult- his works with the Coen brothers on movies like The Hudsucker Proxy are some of my favorites, with their insanely "zoomed-in" quality. This movie was a spaghetti western, it was ABOUT spaghetti westerns, and it was also a weird, wonderful nightmare where your options are limited, you're a superhero, and your enemy is all-powerful. That's adolescent, silly, and totally compelling.
Raimi has always done brilliant visuals; I don't know his history, but I suspect he read a lot of pulp comics as a kid. The early scene where Stone gets up (after playing dead) and you see her shadow putting her hat back on, with the obvious bullet hole in the brim, is sheer visual brilliance.
Gene Hackman is, of course, great (MST3K line: "He's good in everything!"). Sharon Stone has gotten a lot of static for doing what Clint Eastwood built a legend on: bad acting, done intensely. (And in Stone's case in this flick, I think, purposefully.) Leonardo D. is well-cast as a cocky, yet needy, "bad-a** in his own mind" type. Russell Crowe (who nobody knew at the time, especially me) is great in his role as a survivor of a 12-step program to help fight a dependence on violence, complete with backsliding moments.
Do not look to this movie expecting anything like realism, believability, or moderation. This is pulp fiction, eye candy, nightmare surrealism, wanton entertainment. It's trash culture saluting trash culture, and if you can appreciate that, it's a hell of a great ride.