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This is not the bunch to invite over to your house, and many might even want to skip the two-hour film with its talky, pathetic prose. These characters would probably be despicable even if they weren't addicted to some narcotic. And the talk is endless; conversations that finish with a door slam are taken up moments later on the cell phone (a nice updating touch by Rabe). What draws big-name actors to Rabe's work is the chance to work on one's raw acting talent. Penn and Palminteri fit their roles like gloves, and Spacey again proves he is one of the most watchable actors around. Every nuance, bad pun, and irrelevant slip of Spacey's wicked tongue has a brutal kind of poetry here in a film that can be admired but not loved. --Doug Thomas
| ACTORS: | Sean Penn, Kevin Spacey, Chazz Palminteri |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Anthony Drazan |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 25 December, 1998 |
| MANUFACTURER: | New Line Home Entertainment |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-drama |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 794043474620 |
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Customer Reviews of Hurlyburly (New Line Platinum Series)
the amazon review sucks yeah it sounds like good ol doug thomas is a little bitter about the fact that he's writing movie reviews for amazon and not screenplays. this movie does actually rock, and is one of the best for those that enjoy movies about the hollywood scene and LA in general (The Player...etc). yuppies abound, and yes they are pretty shallow and are also a bunch of whiners. but what makes the movie, aside from the outrageously dope cast, is the acting. you start to wonder how close to right on these characters are, since it's kind of obvious that the cast have extensive dealings with these types in "real life". sean penn definitely comes off as the greatest ever, and seeing him in a comedy is a good thing with all the really heavy stuff he's done recently, which is also great (21 Grams). kevin spacey never seems to fail, and he gives us a really killer performance as a yuppie bastard a la Swimming With Sharks. of course anything anna paquin does must be seen, usually repeatedly, and this is no exception. and to top it all off, where else can you see meg ryan playing a hooker that gets thrown out of a car by chazz palmentieri? that should sell it right now for any sane person. of course, there are a lot of words spoken in this flick, so if you cant read too good, maybe skip it. this is the thugness. just buy it.
"I can not stand this semantic insanity anymore!"
I like to find one quote from a movie to use as the header in my reviews - something that is hopefully interesting and perhaps funny, and indicates my feeling toward the movie. The quote is from Darlene (played by Robin Wright Penn) in response to boyfriend Eddie's (Sean Penn) argument about why she can not like Chinese and French restaurants equally.
In most scenes, coke-head Eddie's anger comes from nowhere, but he must try to make it sound as if he's talking about something. Long speeches and big words do not necessarily make a point. Although his room-mate, Mickey, played by Kevin Spacey dishes out speeches as well, it is less overwhelming and makes a little more sense. Perhaps it is because he does not do nearly as much drugs as Sean Penn's character. Another role played by Chazz Palminteri was offensive. It had one note to it, which was to yell, then yell some more, then get physically abusive with women. Anna Paquin's appearance as a street urchin passed off by Artie, played by Garry Shandling, was interesting and not her normal type of character.
The acting was pretty good. The point, plot, and characters were not. One interesting scene was a conversation that was started face-to-face, then continued at different locations via cell-phones over the course of the day.
DVD sound and picture were good. Has 2 OK commentaries.
As Eddie said on more than one occasion..."blah, blah, blah."
Fun yet disturbing.
I was surprised I hadn't heard of this film before, considering the box-office draw of the actors involved. I then realized after putting it on that it was more of a 'vanity' picture. A literary book rather than a 'blockbuster' novel. It's taken from a play, is of course very theatrical and allows the actors involved to flex a bit more of their acting muscle than they would have been given in a conventional Hollywood movie. It's a very masculine play and is quite satirical on the nature of men's emotional inadequeces. Whether they be childish emotions (Sean Penn, Chazz Palminteri) or just plainly non-emotional (Kevin Spacey, Garry Shandling). It also makes no disguise of the characters' blatent mysoginy, exploring the darker side of the male psyche with comedic results. The fast-paced, intelligent dialogue makes it a pleasant change from the usual mid-west subject matter.
I started to feel slightly relieved when I thought that this mightn't be an exploration of men's psychological make-up, but rather a satire on Hollywood movie executives. However concern started creeping back in when I realized these could be some of the brains behind what we consume on TV and at the movies.