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Jackpot
Sony Pictures Classics
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for language and sexuality
Starring
Jon Gries,
Daryl Hannah,
Garrett Morris,
Ricky Trammell,
and
Peggy Lipton
A film about the road to fame -- fame at any cost, at any level. (Sony Pictures Classics)
| GENRE(S): |
Musical
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Mark Polish
Michael Polish
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Michael Polish
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 18, 2001
Video: December 18, 2001
Theatrical: July 27, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
96 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
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88
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Filled with bleak, beautiful Hopperesque tableaus and strange characters whose lives intersect.
80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It's a movie full of quietly assured flourishes: elegant camera compositions, wonderful uses of silence and an entertainingly eclectic cast, including Peggy Lipton as a sensitive bartender.
78
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Its doomed portrait of guileless dreamers may be found lacking in plot activity and empathetic characters. But for anyone interested in a movie that wipes clean the grungy patina of self-delusionment, Jackpot hits solid pay dirt.
75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Gries and Morris act up a storm as the optimistically named Sunny Holiday and his long-suffering manager.
75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
The acting is primo and the cinematography, on high-definition video by the gifted M. David Mullen, is striking.
70
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Potential irony is everywhere in this movie's subtly surreal situations and candy-colored imagery.
63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Bummer theater.
60
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
The more we realize that we're stuck in the company of a totally relentless loser, the drearier the entire experience becomes.
58
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
It's as self consciously arty and fragmented as ''Twin Falls'' was controlled and organically built.
50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Barely enough chuckles to keep from running out of gas. Yet it's the sharpest-looking movie shot so far on digital video, outdistancing even "The Anniversary Party."
50
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
The filmmakers throw in an extended flatulence routine and enough graphic references to female anatomy to make "The Vagina Monologues" blush.
50
USA Today
Claudia Plig
Essentially a one-gag film.
50
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
Jackpot ends up a lot like Sunny's singing: pointless and more than a little flat.
50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
In its mastery of its moments, Jackpot has charm, humor and poignancy. What it lacks is necessity. There's a sense in which we're always waiting for it to kick in.
40
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Jackpot has much that is sweet and funny, but it is not overly original--and it is overly long and not as coherent as it might be.
40
Variety
Ken Eisner
A candidate for quiet cult status.
40
New Times (L.A.)
Luke Y. Thompson
Where "Twin Falls" was slow, brooding and haunting in a manner that fit the subject matter -- the imminent death of one of the principal characters -- Jackpot is just slow and uneventful, like a cross-country Greyhound bus trip that never stops.
40
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
The movie is smart in small ways, yet an underachiever in big ones -- but it will probably play very well on television. On the big screen, it's distended and diffuse.
40
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
This dogged journey of self-delusion is interrupted periodically by snippets of footage...that promise a dark revelation that would give an edge to the otherwise tedious goings-on but, sadly, never materializes.
38
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Shows that there's a limit to how much mileage one can get from offbeat, creepy and symbiotic.
33
Portland Oregonian
Barry Johnson
A very depressing movie.
30
LA Weekly
Manohla Dargis
The mood is hermetic to the point of claustrophobia, embellished with a sense of everyday surrealism indebted to David Lynch.
30
Village Voice
Amy Taubin
Michael and Mark Polish's debut feature, "Twin Falls, Idaho," was a cloying oddball love story involving adult male Siamese twins; their follow-up, Jackpot, is another piece of whimsical Americana.
30
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
Nobody hits the jackpot here, certainly not filmmakers Michael and Mark Polish, whose audacious, empathic first film, "Twin Falls Idaho," showed such promise.
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