A distinguished explorer finds herself stranded in the Mexican desert with two escaped convicts and a stash of diamonds.A distinguished explorer finds herself stranded in the Mexican desert with two escaped convicts and a stash of diamonds.A distinguished explorer finds herself stranded in the Mexican desert with two escaped convicts and a stash of diamonds.
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- TriviaOne of the characters, Frank Norris, is named after the author whose book this film took inspiration from.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Midnight Screenings: Valley of Bones (2017)
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"Slow Burn:" Describes exactly what I experienced.
As a Minnie Driver fan, I couldn't believe the tawdry disaster unfolded in the telling of "Slow Burn." Produced in part by Two Drivers (Minnie and her sister, Kate), it gives the impression of two intelligent women based on self-destruction. For three generations, Minnie's forebears have been consumed with the search for her grandmother's remains, and with it, the diamonds with which she disappeared into the desert so many years ago. It has consumed all of Trina's (Driver's) life, from infancy into young womanhood. Now, only Trina and her older mentor (and Mom's former lover) are left. Trina has promised that this will be her final year of searching. After this season, she'll throw in the towel. Two bumbling escaped convicts, one a bit dim (but basically of good heart) - the other given to apparant glimpses of insight between fits of pique, literally stagger upon what three generations of desert veterans have been unable to find. One of the cons is played by James Spader, and I swear I didn't recognize him. (As Martha Stuart might say [as far as a career move is concerned], "This is a good thing." His agent would agree. In short, there are disabled trucks with runaway tendencies. Said trucks seem to appear meaningfully late in the movie, almost cluttering the set ... despite their mechanical devastations. With trucks like these, "OK! I'll take the kids!" There's a sterility in interpersonal relationships that makes evem Driver's character appear to be a cardboard cut out. Is this love in bloom, or heatstroke. There's even a touch of 'Marathon Man" here, for those with expensive "tastes." The premise should have been developed into a taut thriller. However, neither the viewer seeking justice nor the sophisticate in search of irony comes away satisfied. There's a lovely and colorful little bird to win your heart; but this is not the bird director Chrisyian Ford delivers to paying audiences. "Is it safe?" to see "Slow Burn?" Only if it's free and you're desperate for seeing Minnie Driver on the big screen.
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- finemot
- Oct 8, 2000
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- A fuego lento
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- Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California, USA(end credits, personal knowledge)
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- $10,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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