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Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 16 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Crime | Drama | Romance
Written by: Scott Rosenberg
Directed by: Gary Fleder
Release Date:
Theatrical: December 1, 1995
DVD: June 29, 1999
Running Time: 115 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for strong graphic violence and language, and for brief images of a sex film
Starring Andy Garcia, Christopher Lloyd, William Forsythe, Bill Nunn, Treat Williams, Jack Warden, Steve Buscemi, Fairuza Balk, Gabrielle Anwar, and Christopher Walken
When a powerful mob boss (Walken) gives ex-gangster Jimmy the Saint (Garcia) one last job, it's an offer he can't refuse. But when someone gets killed, Jimmy and his partners are marked for death, leaving Jimmy just 48 hours to put things right for his buddies and the woman of his dreams (Anwar). (Miramax)
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What The Critics Said
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
It's a perversely comic movie ride into the wild blue of crime and punishment.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
Tartly written and vividly performed by a fine ensemble cast, Gary Fleder's bracingly entertaining first feature covers familiar ground in a fresh, breezy way.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Moviegoers who can make it past "Denver's" excessive violence--no small thing--and get on this film's off-center wavelength will find a grave noir comedy heavy with romantic regret, a cocky piece of work that flaunts its style and attitude and dares you not to be impressed.
Read Full Review >USA Today Mike Clark
Colorful. [1 December 1995, p.D13]
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
On balance, I think it's an interesting miss, but a movie you might enjoy if (a) you don't expect a masterpiece, and (b) you like the dialogue in Quentin Tarantino movies.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
More of a pretender than a contender in a field that includes superior entries like "Reservoir Dogs" and "The Usual Suspects."
Read Full Review >The New York Times Elvis Mitchell
Mr. Garcia gives one of his sleeker dreamboat performances.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
Alas, most of the surprise and the wit to be found here ends with the title.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
The movie features a very cool soundtrack and more hip lingo than two ears can absorb. But, like the air in Denver, this movie is spread awfully thin.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Staff (Not credited)
Largely vapid, borderline homophobic, and surprisingly treacly.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Ken Tucker
Its greatest achievement is that there isn't a single convincing scene in it.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Has that title going for it, which might annoy or provoke you. It makes me suspicious. It's the kind of flashy, meaningless title that's usually given to drab, pointless films.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Examiner Barbara Shulgasser
Things to do in the movie theater until you mercifully die of boredom sums up this witness' response to the ordeal of sitting through this movie.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Like a nincompoop version of "The Usual Suspects."
Read Full Review >Washington Post Rita Kempley
Ought to be the subject of an obituary, not a review. A creepy film noir modeled on Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs," it was a stinking stiff on arrival.
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