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MPAA RATING: R for some strong sexuality, and for language

Starring Nick Nolte, Jeff Bridges, Sharon Stone, Catherine Keener, and Albert Finney

At first glance, Lyle Carter (Bridges) seems to have it all. Then he receives a collect call from Vinnie (Nolte), and a dark event from the past threatens to destroy his current success. (Fine Line Features)


GENRE(S): Drama  
WRITTEN BY: Sam Shepard (play)
Matthew Warchus
David Nicholls
 
DIRECTED BY: Matthew Warchus  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: August 22, 2000 
Video: August 22, 2000 
Theatrical: December 17, 1999 
RUNNING TIME: 106 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: France 

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83
Portland Oregonian Diana Abu-Jaber
Possesses the open-ended, continual off-kilterness of Shepard theater.
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70
LA Weekly Chuck Wilson
Demands full attention, if only for the pleasure of watching great actors mine Shepard's harsh, beautiful language for all it's worth.
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70
TNT RoughCut Spencer H. Abbott
Many may find the ultimate drive behind the main characters (especially Nolte's) to be a misguided, feeble and disappointing payoff at best.
70
Variety Dennis Harvey
An unbeatable cast lends satisfying emotional texture.
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70
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
This stylized tale of guilt and retribution is a surprisingly sleek and affecting drama.
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63
Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
A somewhat bewildering and unsatisfying film that nevertheless contains more inspired moments and brilliant scenes than many movies we call successes.
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60
Salon.com Charles Taylor
Warchus seems as at ease with the complexity of the style as he is with directing actors.
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50
Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
While it's entertaining, it's not as persuasive as it needs to be to succeed fully.
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50
Time Richard Schickel
Curiously, if fitfully, intriguing.
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50
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Star-packed fiasco.
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50
Dallas Observer Jean Oppenheimer
Proves only intermittently engaging as its twisted plot loses energy and becomes confusing in the latter half.
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50
The New York Times Stephen Holden
Far from being a typical Hollywood desecration of a difficult play, it stays true to the work's quirky, renegade spirit.
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50
USA Today Staff [Not Credited]
It's an awkward jumble whose only value is as a forum for movie junkies to track the progress of half-a-dozen screen careers at once.
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50
San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann
A confounding and unsatisfying film.
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42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak
As has been the case with most of Shepard's plays, transfer to the movies spells doom.
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40
Rolling Stone Peter Travers
A promise unfulfilled.
38
New York Post Lou Lumenick
A non-starter.
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38
Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
Feels static and constricted, its intensity dulled by overreliance on dialogue.
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38
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
A long slog through perplexities and complexities.
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32
Mr. Showbiz Richard T. Jameson
The switch of medium hasn't reinvigorated the soil or resulted in a film with any compelling reason for being.
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30
Village Voice Michael Atkinson
A decked-out mediocrity with a high-octane cast.
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25
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Stumbling adaptation of a Sam Shepard play about men, horses, chance, and lies.
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25
Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Atmosphere goes only so far in a story where the major characters fade from memory.
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20
Film.com Gemma Files
Tired, overcomplicated mix of macho bullshit.
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10
Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
An extravagant waste of resources.
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