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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. 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.
  3. 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
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  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
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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