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U Turn (1997) -- A drifter (Penn) becomes entangled with a femme fatale (Lopez) and her husband (Nolte) after his car breaks down in their small Southwest town.

Overview

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Director:
Oliver Stone
Writers (WGA):
John Ridley (screenplay)
John Ridley (book)
Contact:
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Release Date:
3 October 1997 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama | Thriller more
Tagline:
Expect the Unexpected. more
Plot:
A drifter becomes entangled with a femme fatale and her husband after his car breaks down in their small Southwest town. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(11 articles)
April Showers, Sean Penn
 (From FilmExperience. 14 April 2009, 8:00 PM, PDT)

Terrence Howard boards 'Red Tails'
 (From screeninglog. 6 April 2009, 5:37 PM, PDT)

User Comments:
Black humour of a kind rarely seen in mainstream Hollywood more

Cast

  (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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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Stray Dogs (USA) (working title)
U Turn - Ici commence l'enfer (France)
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong violence, sexuality and language.
Runtime:
125 min
Country:
France | USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital | SDDS

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Trivia:
When Jennifer Lopez's character (Grace McKenna) flashes back at the end of the film we see lots of photographs of her as a child. These photographs are actually photos from Jennifer Lopez's private collections of herself as a child. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: Marker is visible during the scene where the men have cornered Bobby in the alley. more
Quotes:
Jake McKenna: [walks in on Bobby and Grace kissing] Grace!
Grace: Jake! I thought you were in Phoenix.
Jake McKenna: Who the hell is this?
Bobby: Who the hell are you?
Jake McKenna: I'm her husband!
Bobby: Husband?
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Movie Connections:
Features Hung fan au (1995) more
Soundtrack:
La Mujer Que Amas more

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11 out of 11 people found the following comment useful:-
Black humour of a kind rarely seen in mainstream Hollywood, 11 April 2007
8/10
Author: pfgpowell-1 from United Kingdom

As usual before adding my two ha'porth-worth of comment, I looked at other comments (including Roger Ebert). And, although I didn't read all of them (there are very many), I was surprised that none I read seemed to pick up what was perfectly obvious to me: this is a very funny film, but done in a deadpan style. So deadpan, in fact, that I'm not surprised that might be news to many. I have, coincidentally, recently been buying up on DVD quite a few classic film noir (Build My Gallows High, The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers) and like everyone else thought that the era of film noir had come and gone and that such films were no longer being produced. Well, blow me if I'm not very wrong: this is quintessential film noir (though done in colour and with the proviso that most film noir is not intended to be funny). It would be pointless to recount the plot, but if you liked all those classic Mitchum/Bogart/Van Helin/Edwrad g Robinson etc films, you will love this. Sean Penn never disappoints. By the way the very final twist in the plot had me laughing out loud. Go for it: you won't be disappointed.

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