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Overview
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The Media Made Them Superstars. morePlot:
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media. full summary | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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You'll love it or hate it. moreUS Showtimes:
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Woody Harrelson | ... | Mickey Knox | |
| Juliette Lewis | ... | Mallory Knox | |
| Tom Sizemore | ... | Det. Jack Scagnetti | |
| Rodney Dangerfield | ... | Ed Wilson, Mallory's Dad | |
| Everett Quinton | ... | Deputy Warden Wurlitzer | |
| Jared Harris | ... | London Boy | |
| Pruitt Taylor Vince | ... | Deputy Warden Kavanaugh | |
| Edie McClurg | ... | Mallory's Mom | |
| Russell Means | ... | Old Indian | |
| Lanny Flaherty | ... | Earl | |
| O-Lan Jones | ... | Mabel | |
| Robert Downey Jr. | ... | Wayne Gale | |
| Richard Lineback | ... | Sonny | |
| Kirk Baltz | ... | Roger | |
| Ed White | ... | Pinball Cowboy |
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Rated R for extreme violence and graphic carnage, for shocking images, and for strong language and sexuality.Parents Guide:
View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
118 min | USA:122 min (director's cut)Country:
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1.85 : 1 moreCertification:
Norway:15 | Finland:K-15 (director's cut) | Germany:18 (cut) | France:-16 (director's cut) | Italy:VM14 | Canada:R (Manitoba/Ontario) | USA:NC-17 (original rating) | France:-12 | Brazil:18 | Norway:18 (DVD rating) | Finland:K-15 (director's cut) (DVD) | Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) | Italy:VM18 (director's cut) (direct to video) (self applied) | Sweden:18 (directors cut, original dvd realese) | USA:R | Argentina:18 | Australia:R | Belgium:KNT | Chile:18 | Finland:K-16 | Finland:K-18 (director's cut) | Hong Kong:III | Iceland:16 | Ireland:(Banned) (original rating) | Ireland:18 (re-rating) | Israel:16 | Japan:R-15 | Mexico:C | Netherlands:16 | Portugal:M/18 | South Korea:18 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:Unrated (director's cut) | Canada:18+ (Quebec)MOVIEmeter: 
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Mickey is wearing women's underwear in the scene with the hostage in the hotel room. moreGoofs:
Continuity: Leading up to the Super Bowl the number of victims that Mickey and Mallory murder change several times from fifty six to fifty seven to forty eight and other numbers in the deleted scenes and unrated cut. This might have been done deliberate by the film makers to give the killers the larger than life pop lore they wanted. moreQuotes:
Wayne Gale: What about your father how did he die? You were only ten years old and there's a lot of speculation.Mickey: I didn't kill my father and I don't want to talk about it!
[starts to get angry and makes as if to jump up]
Mickey: .
Dwight McClusky: [leaps to his feet] Hey! Hey!
Wayne Gale: [to everyone around him] It's alright! It's alright!
[turns back to Mickey]
Wayne Gale: We'll just move on to something else.
Mickey: Please let's do.
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I remember "Natural Born Killers" making a huge fuss when it was released because the media and conservative families were in an outrage over the level of "glorified violence" in the film. To some extent they were right -- the violence isn't glorified but much of it is unnecessary. The movie could still be a brilliant satire of society/the media without going into such graphic detail -- it's been proved in cinema before that sometimes seeing less is better than gratuity. If Oliver Stone's movie has one outstanding flaw, it's the lack of subtlety.
That said, if you can handle the level of violence and take it tongue-in-cheek, "Natural Born Killers" is so bizarre and funny that it's worth the "trip." (Pun intended.) This is a crazy drug odyssey that would have made Hunter S. Thompson look like Ronald Reagan. The film is twisted, outlandish and out of its mind -- Oliver Stone has gone stone-cold crazy and it's awesome.
Despite my reservations about his lack of subtlety, there is a flip side to the coin: It is a story about excess. Stone's film-making has gone somewhat awry over the years (look at the pointless excess of his films after this), but this fits the bill because it IS a story of excess.
Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis play the titular "Natural Born Killers," Mickey and Mallory, a pair of crazy serial killers who both suffered traumatic childhoods and are now rampaging America on a literal killing spree.
After they are finally apprehended, the media has by now turned them into such icons and glorified personalities that the public and media seems to respect them as titans of filth.
This is where the social satire of the film comes into play, essentially saying: We focus more on the killers than the heroes.
I do think it's a bit hypocritical of Oliver Stone to attempt to point this out, as he is a die-hard liberal at his core and, as the controversy surrounding this film's release proved, the conservatives are too conservative to praise killers. It seems to be the liberal media that glorifies violence (to some extent of course) so I thought Stone would be the last person to ever criticize the media.
So yes it does come across as somewhat of a moot point but nevertheless the film is still enjoyable despite its sometimes sickening amount of over-the-top violence (the opening sequence of the Director's Cut is stomach-turning).
The cast is superb - Rodney Dangerfield, Robert Downey Jr., Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Sizemore, Edie McClurg (the rental car agent from "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" and Rooney's assistant in "Ferris Bueller"!) and Denis Leary and Ashley Judd in deleted scenes included in the Director's Cut.
The story was conceived by Quentin Tarantino (and it's very similar to his "True Romance" script -- a sort of modern-day "Bonnie and Clyde Redux") and re-written by Stone (much to the chagrin of QT). I'm not sure which would have made for a better film but, despite its flaws (which are mainly a none-too-subtle message and too much violence), "Natural Born Killers" is a sort of bizarre, outlandish masterpiece of drugged-out cinema. --