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| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Carl Franklin |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 29 September, 1995 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Columbia/Tristar 2 |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, NTSC |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| UPC: | 011575513437 |
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Customer Reviews of Devil in a Blue Dress
Denzel and Scene Stealing Cheadle Make This A Winning Adaptation Devil in a Blue Dress is a wonderful adaptation of Walter Mosely's fantastic late 40's detective series featuring black private eye "Easy" Rawlins. <
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>Rawlins is a World War II veteran trying to get reestablished in LA following the war. He finds himself helping out someone hired to look for a white woman who is married to a prominent politician. Soon, he is caught up in the double dealings, mystery, and intrigue that only a 40's private eye can be involved in, and "Easy" begins to have it very, very hard. <
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>He enlists the help of his Texas cousin "Mouse," played by Don Cheadle in what is one of the best scene-stealing performances in the past twenty years. "Mouse" hasn't met anyone besides "Easy" that he dosen't want to kill, and he works hard at being an efficent killer. The byplay with Washington's Easy is hysterical, and provides excellent comic relief. <
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>This move is enjoyable on just about nearly every level. If you haven't seen it, you owe it to yourself to watch Devil in A Blue Dress very, very soon.
Devil in a Blue Dress - Great African American Film Noir
This film directed by Carl Franklin from his own screenplay, based on the novel by Walter Mosley is great. It is a wonderful example of film noir comng from the late 1940's section of Los Angeles that is not seen in films, and from an African American perspective. I highly recommend owning this DVD with commentary from Franklin.
Very good performances hung on not much substance.
Devil in a Blue Dress (Carl Franklin, 1995)
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>I'm still attempting to figure out what to say about this movie after two weeks. Usually, this is a sign that it simply didn't leave enough of an impression on me to say much of anything, but at least I liked it.
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>Easy Rawlins (Denzel Washington), an out-of-work electrician, is hired by an acquaintance of a friend to go looking for Daphne Monet (Flashdance's Jennifer Beals), the missing fiancee of a political candidate in an upcoming election. There's more to it than that, of course, but this is a movie where things tend to get complicated and spoiler-laden very quickly.
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>The movie is chock full of good performances, notably Washington and Don Cheadle as his friend and partner Mouse. The problem is that these performances exist in a vacuum; the movie never really comes together, with wooden dialogue and a paint-by-numbers plot that sacrifices a good deal of the subtlety of the novel. It's a decent genre mystery flick, but it's not what it could have been. ** ½