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  • Starring: Don Johnson, Jennifer Connelly, Virginia Madsen
  • Summary: A lowlife drifter (Johnson) who sells used cars in a Texas burg robs the local bank and gets involved with two women: one bad (Madsen), one innocent (Connelly). Based on Charles Williams' 1952 novel "Hell Hath No Fury." (MGM)

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 12
  3. Negative: 1 out of 12
  1. Variety
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    90
    Seeps with atmosphere, unfolds at a deceptively relaxed pace, steadily accumulates noirish grit, then dizzily plunges into a Lynch-like plumbing of the dark passions and nasty secrets at the heart of Main Street, USA.
  2. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    80
    A crazy, intentionally ludicrous movie that's a lot of film-noir fun.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    50
    Part of the problem is its length; at two hours and ten minutes it meanders rather than building up a head of steam and barreling straight through logic and plausibility on the way to Hell.
  4. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Judy Stone
    25
    A case of ho-hum humping leading to boring betrayal. The ingredients are predictable and the snail's pace is punishing. [26 Oct 1990, Daily Datebook, p.E3]
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  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
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  1. stuart
    10
    To a non american, this film grabs the idea of how life in middle america is perfectly, though deep down we know not be true, it still great for the imagination.… Expand
  2. zadeuf
    8
    I feel this movie misses its point, maybe being too much a straight-forward. Sometimes, I could feel the book (that I never read) which the movie is from being shredded up to fit in a 2-hour movie. Lack of subtlety from both the three main characters, thought great acting from them all. I felt both sorry and relieved that the movie was over...… Expand

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