- Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, John Hurt, Kevin Bacon, Ray Stevenson, Robert Duvall, Robert Patrick, Shawnee Smith, Tippi Hedren
- Summary:
- Director: Billy Bob Thornton
- Genre(s): Drama
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 18
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Mixed: 10 out of 18
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Negative: 4 out of 18
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80It's ambitious enough to aim at polished, intelligent character drama, and pulls it off successfully.
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70The story’s overall trajectory is familiar, and sometimes clichéd, but it still has the power to surprise and startle from moment to moment, which is what really counts.
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60This isn’t the sort of movie that defines anyone’s career, as “Sling Blade” once did. But in an industry averse to risk, passion projects — even uneven ones — are always welcome.
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50Self-indulgent, heavy-handed and lumbering, Jayne Mansfield's Car is not a wreck, but it's certainly a vehicle for boredom.
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42Characters scream, throw glasses, screw, and strip nude for the self-gratifying viewing pleasure of others, but Jayne Mansfield’s Car never musters up even the faintest trace of Tennessee Williams-style hothouse drama.
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40A fine cast can only do so much with the script’s pileup of generational conflict and long-winded introspection, resulting in a willfully out-of-step picture.
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30Thematically diffuse, tonally inconsistent and blighted by an inauthentic feel for its story’s time and place, it sits awkwardly between sober human drama and lighter dysfunctional-family turf, constantly striving for unearned emotions.
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