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Release Date:
3 October 1997 (USA) moreTagline:
Expect the Unexpected. morePlot:
A drifter becomes entangled with a femme fatale and her husband after his car breaks down in their small Southwest town. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
2 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(11 articles)
April Showers, Sean Penn (From FilmExperience. 14 April 2009, 8:00 PM, PDT)
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Modern noir with a dark twist... moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Sean Penn | ... | Bobby Cooper | |
| Billy Bob Thornton | ... | Darrell | |
| Abraham Benrubi | ... | Biker #1 | |
| Richard Rutowski | ... | Biker #2 | |
| Jon Voight | ... | Blind Man | |
| Jennifer Lopez | ... | Grace McKenna | |
| Powers Boothe | ... | Sheriff Potter | |
| Nick Nolte | ... | Jake McKenna | |
| Aida Linares | ... | Jamilla | |
| Sean Stone | ... | Boy in Grocery Store | |
| Ilia Volok | ... | Sergi (as Ilia Volokh) | |
| Valeri Nikolayev | ... | Mr. Arkady (as Valery Nikolaev) | |
| Brent Briscoe | ... | Boyd | |
| Bo Hopkins | ... | Ed | |
| Julie Hagerty | ... | Flo (as Julie Haggerty) |
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Rated R for strong violence, sexuality and language.Parents Guide:
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125 minLanguage:
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1.85 : 1 moreCertification:
New Zealand:R18 | Singapore:R21 (re-rating) | Iceland:16 | Italy:VM18 | Australia:R | Canada:R (Canadian Home Video rating) | Finland:K-16 | France:-12 | Germany:18 (nf) | Hong Kong:III | Netherlands:16 (video premiere) | Norway:15 | Portugal:M/16 | Singapore:R(A) | South Korea:18 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R (No. 35464)Fun Stuff
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Loosely inspired by a true event that took place in the early '80s where a drifter (like 'Sean Penn''s character) passed through a remote Southwestern road-stop only to never be heard from again. moreGoofs:
Revealing mistakes: Near the first of the movie, where Cooper's car passes a vulture eviscerating a dead animal, the vulture clearly has a leg ring with an attached band that is being yanked. moreSoundtrack:
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Brilliant & hallucinatory cinematography, impeccable use of music, and a handful of dark, edgy character sketches all work together very nicely to make this bleak, dark-humoured desert noir an overlooked highlight of Oliver Stone's career. The highly evocative atmosphere plays out against the Arizona desert in a way that (in addition to foreshadowing some of the work done in Terry Gilliam's own twisted little masterpiece 'Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas') seems to mirror, in a more subtle and tasteful manner, much of Stone's work in 'Natural Born Killers'. However, rather than hitting us over the head with whatever socially charged 'message' he may have been attempting to convey in that film, here he is simply content to let it build up a thick and steamy ambience that moves our hapless comrades on towards their own impending personal apocalypse. Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, and Jennifer Lopez all turn in great performances and Billy Bob Thornton's eccentric character sketch elevates what may be defined as a bit part to a far more relevant status. Modern noir with a few dark twists and a taste all it's own that's well worth digging into...for those who have a taste for this kind of thing, if you know what I mean.