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  • 1980
  • R
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 53 m
  • 1980
  • R
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 53 m

Summary When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman (Kurt Russel) to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival - and to fun his fledgling senate campaign.

Directed By: Robert Zemeckis

Written By: Bob Gale, Robert Zemeckis

  • 1980
  • R
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 53 m
  • 1980
  • R
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 53 m

Used Cars

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
68
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 13 User Ratings
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Summary When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman (Kurt Russel) to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival - and to fun his fledgling senate campaign.

Directed By: Robert Zemeckis

Written By: Bob Gale, Robert Zemeckis

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
68
55% Positive
6 Reviews
36% Mixed
4 Reviews
9% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
68
55% Positive
6 Reviews
36% Mixed
4 Reviews
9% Negative
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100
Savagely funny...taken as a rancid, festering slice of Americana, it seems more potent than ever.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
90
For once a comedy in the Animal House school that knows what it's was about: the vulgarity of the gags matches the vulgarity of the subject, and this 1980 film becomes a fierce, cathartically funny celebration of the low, the cheap, the venal—in short, America. Most of the time, I didn't know whether to laugh or shudder, and I ended up doing a lot of both. It was Steve Martin who said, “Comedy isn't pretty,” but it's Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, the writer-directors here, who prove it; this is the Dawn of the Dead of slapstick.
By Dave Kehr FULL REVIEW

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38% Mixed
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38% Mixed
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0% Negative
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80
With their unerring eye for potential, the distributors didn't release this hilarious black comedy to cinemas in Britain. Zemeckis subsequently went on to make Romancing the Stone, Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and loadsa money. Infinitely more caustic than these blockbusters, Used Cars runs on a contemporary screwball motor with a slapstick chassis
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75
Before director-writer Bob Zemeckis found success with blockbuster hits ROMANCING THE STONE and BACK TO THE FUTURE, he directed this raunchy, hysterically funny comedy. Kurt Russell turns in a brilliant performance.
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50
There are so many different characters and story lines in the movie that it's hard to keep everything straight, and harder still to care.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
40
Scripters have provided very little context or societal texture for their unmodulated tale, which disagreeably seeks to find humor in characters’ humiliation, embarrassment and even death. Nonetheless Robert Zemeckis directs with undeniable vigor, if insufficient control and discipline.
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38
Used Cars is full of used characters, used ideas, and used jokes, many of which are in astonishingly bad taste.
By David Sterritt FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Columbia Pictures, A-Team, Amblin Entertainment
Release Date Jul 11, 1980
Duration 1 h 53 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline The screen's wildest race against time is the biggest auto stampede ever!
Website http://www.sonymoviechannel.com/movies/used-cars
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