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  • 1986
  • R
  • TriStar Pictures
  • 1 h 55 m
  • 1986
  • R
  • TriStar Pictures
  • 1 h 55 m

Summary Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff's Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. The ensuing psychological aftermath of this shooting worsens his drinking problem and this alcoholism causes him to lose his job, as well as his marriage. During his recovery through Alcoholics Anonymous, he meets a myst...

Directed By: Hal Ashby

Written By: Lawrence Block, Oliver Stone, R. Lance Hill, Robert Towne, Hal Ashby

  • 1986
  • R
  • TriStar Pictures
  • 1 h 55 m
  • 1986
  • R
  • TriStar Pictures
  • 1 h 55 m

8 Million Ways to Die

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
29
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Summary Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff's Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. The ensuing psychological aftermath of this shooting worsens his drinking problem and this alcoholism causes him to lose his job, as well as his marriage. During his recovery through Alcoholics Anonymous, he meets a myst...

Directed By: Hal Ashby

Written By: Lawrence Block, Oliver Stone, R. Lance Hill, Robert Towne, Hal Ashby

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
29
10% Positive
1 Review
30% Mixed
3 Reviews
60% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
29
10% Positive
1 Review
30% Mixed
3 Reviews
60% Negative
6 Reviews

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75
It’s a fine swan song for Ashby.
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50
The movie's a mixed bag, probably because the script was written by drug-traffic expert Oliver Stone of "Scarface" and "Midnight Express" and David Lee Henry of "The Evil Men Do" on the one hand, and directed by sensitive guy Hal Ashby of "Harold and Maude" and "Coming Home" on the other. It's an unhappy hybrid, a valiant but impractical attempt to upgrade the genre. [25 Apr 1986, p.27]
By Rita Kempley FULL REVIEW
40
What could have been a better film delving into complexities of one tough-but-vulnerable alcoholic sheriff out to bust a cocaine ring, instead ends up an oddly-paced work that is sometimes a thriller and sometimes a love story, succeeding at neither.
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30
8 Million Ways to Die is a ponderous, convoluted improbability, with more inexplicable actions and situations than "The Big Sleep," which is the last time those two films will ever be mentioned in the same sentence.
By Sheila Benson FULL REVIEW
30
What happened? With Ashby, Bridges, Arquette and a script co-written by Oliver Stone, you expect the result to be better than a long drawn-out episode of The Equalizer.
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25
Considering the major talents involved here, one would expect to find something more than a run-of-the-mill crime thriller. In a sense one does, for 8 MILLION WAYS TO DIE is a paralyzingly inept film.
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10
HOW did Eight Million Ways to Die commit suicide? Let us count the ways.
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Production Company Producers Sales Organization (PSO)
Release Date Apr 25, 1986
Duration 1 h 55 m
Rating R
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Tagline Death comes to all except those who deserve it most
Website https://mt2.org/uyeler/8-million-ways-to-die.15894/
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