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Clay Pigeons (1998) 6.4
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6.4/10 from 7,672 users
Metascore: 46/100
Reviews: 105 user | 49 critic | 26 from Metacritic.com Clay (as in the title) is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend kill himself because of the ongoing affair that Clay was having with the man's wife. Feeling guilty, Clay now ... See full summary » Director:David DobkinWriter:Matthew L. Healy |
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Earl
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Mark
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Clay (as in the title) is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend kill himself because of the ongoing affair that Clay was having with the man's wife. Feeling guilty, Clay now resists the widow when she presses him to continue with their sexual affairs. Into this comes a serial killer who befriends Clay, even to murdering the nagging widow for him... but certainly not at Clay's request. But that doesn't matter for the police, as well as for a savvy female FBI agent who sees Clay as their prime suspect. Yet Clay doesn't tell them of his 'friend' who admits to him of his serial killings, primarily because Clay sees himself as somewhat of an accomplice, in that he seems to have introduced to the killer each young woman that is killed... in fact, the sheriff comments that he wishes Clay would quit finding the murdered victims, which he always seems to do. But at last Clay is able to turn from being the pigeon... to giving the film its very unpredictable conclusion. Written by BOB STEBBINS <stebinsbob@aol.com>
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Lester Long never forgets a friend See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for strong scenes of sexuality, language and violence | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
25 September 1998 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
In Too Deep See more »Box Office
Budget:
$8,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$167,364 (USA) (25 September 1998)Gross:
$1,789,892 (USA) (13 November 1998)Company Credits
Production Co:
Fade In Films, IMF Internationale Medien und Film GmbH & Co. Produktions KG, Intermedia Films See more »
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Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
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Written by Walter Hyatt
Performed by Lyle Lovett
Courtesy MCA Records/Curb Music
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Trivia
The film never saw a theatrical release in the United Kingdom, instead it went straight to video for UK release. See more »Goofs
When Clay pushes the truck with the dead guy in it over the cliff, the truck eventually explodes in a huge fireball. But later, when we cut back to the police investigating the incident, the truck is not charred by fire at all. See more »Crazy Credits
At the end of the closing credits Lester Long says "You gotta good sense of humor, I like that" and does his bizarre laugh. See more »Soundtracks
"Teach Me About Love"Written by Walter Hyatt
Performed by Lyle Lovett
Courtesy MCA Records/Curb Music
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I usually don't read many comments here at IMDb before I have seen a certain film, I only read a few. But before I saw "Clay Pigeons" I read them all and after having done so I didn't exactly expect much when I pushed "play" on the remote control. I'm not saying that that is the only reason why I liked this movie so much, because I really thought that it was a good film. Not a masterpiece of course, but the script is witty, the acting great, and the movie in itself is quite entertaining -- it's never boring. I really, really like Joaquin Phoenix, he is one of the best young actors around now, and he didn't disappoint me in this film -- far from it. He's quite brilliant. Vince Vaughn must have had a great time playing Lester Long, you can see that he is comfortable with his character and Vaughn is better than I'd ever expected, however, for me it's Phoenix's film. He truly is amazing. As for Janeane Garofalo, she's certainly not bad, but neither very good, but that's mainly because she's in the shadow of Vaughn and Phoenix. Overall, an entertaining and rather funny film, way better than I expected. (7/10)