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Generally favorable reviews- based on 45 Ratings
- Starring: Nicolas Cage
- Summary: Tom Welles (Cage) is a family man with a modest home-based private investigation business living a simple life in Pennsylvania -- until a reel of crudely shot eight millimeter film sends him down a gritty and frightening path into society's darkest corners. (Sony)
- Director: Joel Schumacher
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller, Crime
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Positive: 4 out of 20
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Mixed: 6 out of 20
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Negative: 10 out of 20
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75It is a real film. Not a slick exploitation exercise with all the trappings of depravity but none of the consequences.
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60I can't say I warmed to the results, but I was solidly held for the film's two hours.
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30A movie that keeps jumping the gate and finally unravels all over the floor.
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25A private eye enters a horrific world of degrading sex and bottom-feeding pornographers.
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Positive: 11 out of 15
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Negative: 4 out of 15
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IslamB.2Yuckk!! It was grose with no story no art no good acting and boring and it also gave me a headache the worst nicholas cage movie.
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