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In Theaters : 31 January, 1997 |
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Johns [Region 2] Customer Reviews
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There Is Humor But It Isn't A Comedy
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The VHS packaging calls this a "dark comedy-drama", and there is a level of street humor totally missing from two more famous films with similar subject matter, MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO and TWIST. That said, there is almost nothing funny about it. This is one of those films that seems to be made so that it can NEVER be shown on commercial television. There is lots of swearing, sexual situations and some seriously disturbing violence permeates the film from beginning to end.
The Christian symbolism is laid on with a trowel, but the acting is uniformly good. Arquette and Haas are tremendously watchable in unappealing roles.
I don't think that I would want to watch this a second time. It is just way too violent, but there are some remarkable moments, especially an ineffably touching last encounter between Arquette and Richard Kind as a sympathetic hotel clerk. |
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