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  • 1998
  • R
  • Warner Home Video
  • 1 h 54 m
  • 1998
  • R
  • Warner Home Video
  • 1 h 54 m

Summary Woody Harrelson plays a small-timer suckered into a fake kidnapping plot and facing hard time if he can't untangle a mystery involving three women (Shue, Gershon, Sevigny), false identities, cold corpses and assorted clues framing him.  (Warner Home Video)

Directed By: Volker Schlöndorff

Written By: James Hadley Chase, E. Max Frye

  • 1998
  • R
  • Warner Home Video
  • 1 h 54 m
  • 1998
  • R
  • Warner Home Video
  • 1 h 54 m

Palmetto

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 20 Critic Reviews
43
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 13 User Ratings
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Summary Woody Harrelson plays a small-timer suckered into a fake kidnapping plot and facing hard time if he can't untangle a mystery involving three women (Shue, Gershon, Sevigny), false identities, cold corpses and assorted clues framing him.  (Warner Home Video)

Directed By: Volker Schlöndorff

Written By: James Hadley Chase, E. Max Frye

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 20 Critic Reviews
43
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80% Mixed
16 Reviews
10% Negative
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83
Palmetto has a satisfyingly deceptive plot that ultimately takes one too many turns.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
50
Palmetto follows the rules of film noir so slavishly that it's tough not to like it just on its own dopey, headstrong merit.
By Marc Savlov FULL REVIEW
50
The script, based on British pulp writer James Hadley Chase's novel "Just Another Sucker," is a muddle, and no actors, no matter how compelling or talented, could make its silly dialogue work.
By Barbara Shulgasser FULL REVIEW
50
What begins as a lush, pulpy gothic laced with intrigue quickly spins into a convoluted web of over engineered and preposterous plot twists.
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40
Surprises are reserved for the final half-hour, at which point the slow-paced Palmetto has long since fossilized as a routine exercise in ceiling-fan, sweaty-forehead noir-by-numbers.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
40
It's been said that a thriller is only as good as its chief villain, and, in the same way, most noirs are only as good as their suckers. Palmetto has a good sucker but not much else.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
20
Revelations of betrayals, faked identities and double-crosses come in waves in the last half-hour of Palmetto, but by then, the film has raised the one question it can't answer: Who cares?
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Generally Favorable Based on 13 User Ratings
7.3
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38% Mixed
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Production Company Castle Rock Entertainment, Code Entertainment, Columbia Pictures, Rialto Film
Release Date Feb 20, 1998
Duration 1 h 54 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline In a town this bad, it's hard to be good...
Website http://www.spe.sony.com/movies/palmetto/intro.html
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