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Release Date:
3 October 1997 (USA)
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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
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Desert
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Small Town
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Femme Fatale
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Drifter
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Awards:
2 nominations
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(13 articles)
Renee Zellweger Is Fine After Car Accident
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Renee Zellweger Involved in Fender Bender
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A grim but comic confection.
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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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Rated R for strong violence, sexuality and language.
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Runtime:
125 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
New Zealand:R18 |
Singapore:R21 (re-rating) |
Iceland:16 |
Italy:VM18 |
Australia:R |
Canada:R (Canadian Home Video rating) |
Finland:K-16 |
France:-12 |
Germany:18 (nf) |
Hong Kong:III |
Netherlands:16 (video premiere) |
Norway:15 |
Portugal:M/16 |
Singapore:R(A) |
South Korea:18 |
Spain:18 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:18 |
USA:R (No. 35464)
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The role of Grace was originally intended for Sharon Stone, but salary negotiations fell through.
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Revealing mistakes: Near the first of the movie, where Cooper's car passes a vulture eviscerating a dead animal, the vulture clearly has a leg ring with an attached band that is being yanked.
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Features Hung fan au (1995)
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Meatgrinder
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In "U-Turn," Oliver Stone narrows his focus from the broad-canvass projects he typically produces. Those seeking the knowing profundities of "JFK" or "Nixon" will be disappointed. This is a genre picture of the desert southwestern potboiler variety, a much-updated "Painted Desert" kind of film. Lots of bad luck, scorpions, whiskey, sexual perversity, bullying, greed, lots of sweat and very little shaving. The basic questions begged by a movie like this one are these: Who will have sex? Who will live? Who will die? And who will end up with the money? By the final reel, all these questions are very satisfactorily answered. For a picture of this type, "U-Turn" is very good indeed.
Sean Penn is smashing, Nolte has never been creepier, and Jennifer Lopez is, er, extremely effective in this film's only real female role. John Voight, buried in the role a mystic Indian, is most entertaining. And we get another patented oddball performance by Billy Bob Thornton that is absolutely worth the price of admission. For good measure, Juaquin Phoenix and Claire Danes deliver a too-brief but electrifying turn as a young couple adept at creating trouble. As if Sean Penn, in this picture, didn't have enough already.
Sure, the predictable desert atmospherics are a bit overdone. But the solid script by John Ridley, the letter-perfect performances, and Stone's sure directorial hand make this one of his better films.
This movie is out of the theatres, so one word to you parents about "U-Turn." This is not one to watch in the presence of the kiddies. It contains very graphic and violence and sexual material clearly unsuitable for young folk or the sensitive soul of any age.
But if you like your film noir with sand and scorpions thrown in for good measure, this is a sure-fire rental that will leave you fully satisfied.