Rush (1991)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Lili Fini Zanuck

Writers (WGA):

Kim Wozencraft (book)
Peter Dexter (screenplay)

Release Date:

17 January 1992 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Tagline:

How far do they go before they've gone too far?

Plot:

Two small town Texas cops goes undercover to catch a major drug runner & end up getting caught up in the drug culture.

Plot Keywords:

Drugs | Love | Texas | Drug Addiction | Subjective Camera

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 3 nominations

Cast

Jason Patric	...	Jim Raynor
Jennifer Jason Leigh	...	Kristen Cates
Sam Elliott	...	Dodd
Max Perlich	...	Walker
Gregg Allman	...	Gaines
Tony Frank	...	Nettle
William Sadler	...	Monroe
Special K. McCray	...	Willie Red
Dennis Letts	...	Senior District Attorney
Dennis Burkley	...	Motorcycle Guy
Glenn Wilson	...	Motorcycle Guy
Jimmy Ray Pickens	...	Man in Disco (as Jimmy Pickens)
Barbara Lasater	...	Yellow Rose Bartender
Toni Pilgreen	...	Driller's Waitress
Merrill Connally	...	Defense Attorney

Runtime:

120 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Finland:K-16 (heavily cut) (1992) (video release) | Finland:K-18 (uncut) (1992) (theatrical release) | Singapore:R21 | Iceland:16 | Portugal:M/16 | New Zealand:R16 | Australia:R | Canada:14A | Spain:18 | UK:18 | USA:R | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Filming Locations:

Houston, Texas, USA

Company:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Trivia:

Tom Cruise turned down the part later played by Jason Patrick as he didn't like the idea of scenes involving him taking drugs.

Goofs:

Miscellaneous: End title credits misspell Lynyrd Skynyrd as "Lynyard Skynyrd".

Quotes:

Willie Red: Pretty soon you be feeling all unnecessary.

Movie Connections:

Features "Saturday Night Live" (1975)

Soundtrack:

The South's Gonna Do It Again

Rough and Sweet

I saw "Rush" yesterday and it surprised me completely. I haven't seen so powerfully dedicated acting in a long time! In "Rush" two undercover police officers (soulful pair Jason Patric and Jennifer Jason Leigh) who are trying to bust every big drug dealer in Los Angeles. But there is a fine line of becoming a drug addict when you are acting to be one... Is it save to use drugs in the name of good intentions?

Lili Fini Zanuck directed (and her spouse Richard D. Zanuck produced) Jason Leigh and Patric with a touch of a combination of rough and soft at the same time. The pair gives performances which are strong and morningly present, too. Probably their career's best roles. The pair supports the story and are the strength of whole movie. I was blown away. Jason Leigh and Patric really had the unspoken chemistry. That isn't easy to achieve. They were very impressively convincing.

Although of the rough subject of the movie the love story rises behind it. If your partner is screwed than so are you, Patric's character Jim Raynor says to Kirsten (Jason Leigh) about their under-covering. Yes, it is true but I think that Kirsten would have done whatever Jim would have wanted her to do even she was so strong individual. It is a notion of overcoming love.

I really loved the feeling of the seventies in the movie. The music (composed by guitar-wizard Eric Clapton), clothes and the spirit was so '70s (my favorite decade even I wasn't been born yet). After happy hippie-sixties, the golden era of drug-using was behind and the drug-busting was just begun. If the using was so free in the '60s in the '70s it was spreading more fluently and the criminality was increasing. The movie shows that how dangerous it is to be close encounter with the drug dealers.

The movie has R-rating here in Finland and some other countries too and it is definitely rough and tough although there is a softer side. But I am sure that the drug addicts life isn't so pretty so "Rush" feels very authentic and real.

"Rush" was surprisingly good movie which held me throughout the whole movie. I highly recommend it.