True Romance (Unrated Director's Cut)

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It was directed with energetic skill by Top Gun Tony Scott, but this breathtaking 1993 thriller (think of it as an adolescent crime fantasy on steroids) has Quentin Tarantino written all over it. True Romance is really part of a loose trilogy that includes Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, with a crackling Tarantino screenplay that rides a fine line between raucous comedy and violent excess. Christian Slater plays Clarence, the comic-book lover who meets a beguiling prostitute named Alabama (Patricia Arquette), confronts her vicious pimp (Gary Oldman), and embarks on a cross-country odyssey with $5 million worth of Mafia cocaine. Mayhem ensues, culminating in a favorite Tarantino climax--the "Mexican standoff"--in which a roomful of guys are pointing guns at each other, waiting to see who shoots first. Brutal, profane, and totally outrageous, True Romance is not for everyone, but with a supporting cast that includes Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, Brad Pitt, and Val Kilmer (as the ghost of Elvis!), you can be sure this movie will never be boring. --Jeff Shannon

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Slater.......2007-08-27

This was a good movie. The references to Elvis were cool. Slater rescues the girl and they ride of into the sunset. After alot of shooting.

Corey Cotta, Author of All Of Yesterdays Tomorrows.

Scott and Tarantino deliver.......2007-08-18

Another mix of drugs, violence and humour in this Tony Scott film which has Quentin Tarantino's fingerprints all over it.

A top quality cast, with Gary Oldman memorable as a 'black' whiteman pimp and superb lead performances from Slater and Arquette. However the film will always be remembered for the scene where Vincenzo Coccotti (Christopher Walken) interogates Clifford Worley (Dennis Hopper). This scene is fantastic film-making, and of course ultimately it is Quentin Tarantinos brilliant writing that makes it work.

Be warned this is an extremly violent movie. There is a lot of swearing as well, and whilst it isn't as good as Pulp Fiction it certainly is a classic 'popcorn' movie. It holds up to repeated viewings and there is not a dull moment to be had.

Perfect 5 Star Film!.......2007-07-27

"True Romance" is a perfect film.
Totally nailed by director Tony Scott, with an absolutely amazing cast of classic characters, wonderful script by Quentin Tarantino, and just the best feelgood, violent action movie ever.

Slater and Arquette are fantastic together as the lovesick couple on the run from the mob, and all their magic adventures along the way.

The Director's Cut (Two Disc Special Edition) includes lots of interesting extras, and is one of my favourite discs ever. I love this film!!!

True Romance.......2007-07-18

Penned by Quentin Tarantino, Scott's cheeky, hyper-violent "Romance" flippantly references movies like "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Badlands," but manages to leave its own crazed, amped-up stamp on the lovers-on-the-run genre. Slater and the foxy Arquette are perfectly matched, her Jessica Lange-ish moll playing well off his cheerily smug, gun-toting clerk. Scott's ace in the hole, apart from Tarantino's ballistic script, is his gallery of supporting actors: Oldman's dreadlocked pimp, Brad Pitt's hilariously clueless stoner, and Christopher Walken's ice-cold mobster are all a hoot to watch. "Romance" is a stylish, high-octane thriller like no other.

Just about as good as it gets for special dvd.......2007-06-27

This special DVD release pretty much has all you could ask for, trailers, commentary from main cast PA and CS, commentary from Quentin, commentary from Tony Scott, even five minutes from Brad Pitt, Val Kilmer even though they were in the movie for only five minutes!!!!! :) The only problem I can really think of aside from it not being free is that the bulk of the material is on the first disc, slop a little more on one and you have it all on one disc. I don't really understand the whole more discs is better thing.

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I love these actors and their performances!
Brings Back Memories
Professional Actors
A flawed but fascinating look at murder, hookers, ambition and the Church...as well as Charles Durning dancing an Irish jig
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True Confessions
Starring: Robert De Niro , Robert Duvall , Charles Durning , Kenneth McMillan , and Ed Flanders
Director: Ulu Grosbard
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ASIN: B000MTFFPY
Release Date: 2007-04-17

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John Gregory Dunne turned the true story of Los Angeles's Black Dahlia murder case into a compelling novel and then adapted the novel (with wife Joan Didion) for this meaty movie mystery directed by Ulu Grosbard. A study of the ways power corrupts, and the way corruption consumes the soul, the film stars Robert Duvall and Robert De Niro as a pair of brothers (a cynical police detective and a rapidly rising monsignor, respectively) who come into conflict over the case of a murdered woman in 1940s Hollywood. De Niro gives a beautifully shaded performance, while Duvall, who never gives a bad one, gets the slightly flashier role. Yet there's nothing showy about Duvall, who gets under the skin of this cop and who knows better than to get personally involved in a case but ultimately can't help it. A fine supporting cast includes Kenneth McMillan, Charles Durning, and Burgess Meredith. Maybe too studied for some, but worth watching if only for the two leads. --Marshall Fine

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Detective Tom Spellacy (Duvall) and Catholic Monsignor Desmond Spellacy (De Niro) find their worlds colliding amidst a flurry of political finger-pointing and public outcries over a scandalous, headline-making murder. As Tom hunts down the elusive killer, his investigation threatens to expose secrets that could ruin his brotherÂ...and rock the foundation of his beloved church.

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I love these actors and their performances!.......2007-09-03

this is one of those films where you watch it, not so much for the story, but for the acting. Duvall is one of my favorite all time actors and he shows such restraint in this film and the scenes between him and "brother" in the film, robert de niro, are so amazing that i could (and do) watch them over and over again. for those who love acting, and love to observe amazing performances that will just take your breath away, watch these two masters at work. the performances of every one else in the film are also wonderful.

Brings Back Memories.......2007-07-08

I love this movie, and have waited a long time for it to come out on DVD. However, I'm a bit biased as I worked on it. So, for me it's not just a good movie, it also brings back memories of working with some of my favorite actors and on a crew with several good friends. I don't know why it took so long for this movie to make it to DVD. It has an amazing cast... De Niro, Duval, Durning, just for starters. The story is intense and intriging, and the photography is beautiful, with great attention to period details. There's a lot to like about this movie.

A TRUE BEHIND THE SCENES STORY:
The murder victim at the center of the story is alternately played by an ex-playboy model and a full-sized wax casting of her. Supervising the makeup for actress as well as the wax dummy was the renoun makeup artist, Michael Westmore of Star Trek fame. Also, to ensure realism, a L.A. Deputy Coroner served as technical advisor.

However, dispite assurances from Michael and the technical advisor that the "body" looked very real, the director wasn't happy with the skin color. As he said, "it's not a matter of what a REAL body looks like, it's what the audience THINKS a real body looks like." So, Michael loaded the wax dummy in the back seat of his car to take it back his studio. Can you guess what happened next? Driving down the freeway, someone saw the wax dummy in the back of Michael's car and called the police. Subsequently, he was stopped by a roadblock and police with drawn guns. So, obviously the dummy looked real to someone.

Professional Actors.......2007-05-14

This is a real showcase for three great actors, Robert Duvall,Robert DeNiro and Charles Durning.
I saw the movie in the theater when it first came out. I had to immediately read the book.
I would recommend the book but the movie is more entertaining. This story rings true as a parable about two brothers struggling with their ethics and morals.
Heavy religuous references.

A flawed but fascinating look at murder, hookers, ambition and the Church...as well as Charles Durning dancing an Irish jig.......2007-05-13

True Confessions, with a screenplay by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, is a movie with a split personality. Half of it is a skewering look at pride and ambition in the Catholic Church, where the desire to build orphanages and schools is too easily transformed into rubbing shoulders with the powerful and the sleazy, where a young monsignor is the smooth arm of the cardinal, extracting money from the rich, making sure high awards go to those who contribute and who is accustomed to his usual lunch of a rob roy with a twist and a large shrimp cocktail at exclusive restaurants. The other half is the story of a gruesome murder of a young woman whose torso, cut into two pieces, is found in a Los Angeles field. This part also is the story of the detective who investigates the crime and the tawdry world of prostitution and bribes he operates in. Any chance that the monsignor and the detective are brothers? Any chance that we're supposed to draw parallels between the two worlds the brothers operate in? Nope.

Robert De Niro plays Monsignor Des Spellacy. He's helped transform the Los Angeles archdiocese under the knowing eye of Cardinal Danahan. He raises vast amounts of money on the golf courses and he's not above manipulating a church raffle. One of the men he deals with is the wealthy, aggressive Jack Amsterdam (Charles Durning), a heavy contributor and a man eager for lucrative building contracts and high Catholic awards. Robert Duvall plays L. A. Homicide detective Tom Spellacy, long estranged from his brother. Tom is a cop who started out as a bagman for pimps, changed his ways, isn't above ignoring small payoffs. He has an intense dislike for both Amsterdam and what he believes is the hypocrisy of the Church.

The movie takes us to the tawdriest parts of 1948 Los Angeles, where there's usually no percentage in finding the killers of prostitutes. "You know who we're going to pick up on this one?" says Frank Crotty to Tom, his partner. "Panty sniffers, weenie flashers, guys who beat their hog on the number two bus, guys who fall in love with their shoes. Know how we're going to break this case? A couple of years from now, we'll pick up someone running a red light. I killed the girl, he'll say. What girl, we'll say. The girl with the rose tattoo, he'll say. What girl was that, we'll say. This is a 9-to-5 stiff, Tom. No overtime." That all changes when Tom gets Jack Amsterdam in his sights.

We also learn the other side of that coin. When the Cardinal says he's nominating Des for appointment as an auxiliary bishop, he tells Des, "If you're lucky you'll find an ambitious young monsignor to do your dirty work for you." That's immediately after the Cardinal instructed Des to remove a fine old priest from a parish because the man had complained too often that the Church wasn't compassionate enough.

The two themes come together, but only barely. The murder mystery, which to me gives the movie its juice, just slowly peters out in a conclusion where the murderer seems to be an afterthought and newspaper headlines seem sufficient for retribution and redemption.

Although for me the movie is something of a disappointment, it's a fascinating one. True Confessions has a great look about it. The movie captures that same golden ambiance of Los Angeles corruption that Chinatown did. We move from pornographic studios in abandoned warehouses to elegant archdiocese offices, from ritzy restaurants to cathouses. Charles Durning as Amsterdam, Kenneth McMillan as Frank Crotty, Burgess Meredith as Father Fargo, Cyril Cusack as the Cardinal are each superb in their roles. Most of all, the dynamic between De Niro and Duvall is fascinating. In the face of Duvall's utter believability as Tom Spellacy, De Niro was smart enough to underplay. They give the movie far more energy than do the messages Didion and Dunne serve up.

If Didion and Dunne had simply concentrated on the murder and let the messages indirectly seep into our heads, I think they would have had a stunning film. But make no mistake, True Confessions with all its faults is still a lot of fun...but you'll need to be fond of stylish, grubby murder, post WWII Los Angeles and have a high tolerance for meaningful messages.

The DVD transfer is acceptable but it's not anamorphic. There are no extras. Wide-screen is on one side of the disc; pan-and-scan on the other.

DVD Has Both Full Screen AND Widescreen.......2007-04-26

I received my DVD today and despite what the "Product Details" say above, the movie is presented in both Full Screen AND Widescreen.

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Amazing human nature
Worth Watching
The Iceman Interviews
Iceman Is A Great Name For This Man
The Hitman

The Iceman Interviews
Director: Jim Thebaut
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ASIN: B0000C23T4
Release Date: 2004-06-01

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An abused young man. A hair-trigger temper. A trail of dead bodies. What makes a cold-blooded killer tick? THE ICEMAN AND THE PSYCHIATRIST is now available for the first time on DVD. Renowned forensic psychologist Dr. Park Dietz gets up close, personal and even confrontational with psyche of one of the most dangerous men alive. Bringing together the earlier THE ICEMAN TAPES: CONVERSATIONS WITH A KILLER and THE ICEMAN: SECRETS OF A MAFIA HITMAN with the newly released Dietz interview, this new special edition, THE ICEMAN INTERVIEWS is the ultimate compendium of the mind of a murderer. Includes Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski's riveting on-camera confession, exclusively for HBO, of the murder of police officer Peter Calabro. Making news in February 2003, Kuklinski accepted a plea bargain for a concurrent 30-year term to his 60-year prison sentence and implicated Sammy "The Bull" Gravano in the crime. THE ICEMAN INTERVIEWS - this new special edition is guaranteed to run chills up and down your spine all over again.

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Amazing human nature.......2007-09-07

After you see The Iceman Interviews you are going to make a comment whith every single person you know, even with strangers.Evil man with lots of common sense.Enjoy it, and then read the book from Philip Carlo:The Iceman, confessions of a mafia contrat killer.Finally, after months of intense search, I found the book and the DVD in Amazon.com, super cheap, fast and over all, RELIABLE!!!Again, enjoy it.

Worth Watching.......2007-06-12

If you like documentaries this is worth watching. It was worth the money i spent on it. It is a good movie also, if you like anything to do with the mophia.

The Iceman Interviews.......2007-06-02

THIS IS JOURNALISM AT ITS BEST - CAPTIVATING AND RIVETING; WELL DONE.

Iceman Is A Great Name For This Man.......2007-05-15

I have never seen such a cool customer - you really have to see this DVD to believe it.

The Hitman.......2007-05-08

Don't bother. Get the HBO DVD and call it good. This is just a poor repeat.

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A documentary that holds true even after multiple viewings...a must see!
One of the best documentaries I've seen
a solid tv documentary taken to its heights
Excellent documentary
I will never forget it.

Murder on a Sunday Morning
Director: Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
Manufacturer: Docurama
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ASIN: B00008DDJ4
Release Date: 2003-04-29

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The Academy Award-winning documentary Murder on a Sunday Afternoon, which originally aired on HBO as part of its America Undercover series, is a troubling look at modern police investigation that unfolds in a story as compelling and suspenseful as any fictional drama. French director Jean-Xavier De Lestrade's intimate camerawork pulls viewers into the jury box to help decide the fate of 15-year-old Brenton Butler, a black resident of Jacksonville, Florida, who becomes the prime suspect in the shooting death of an elderly white woman simply because he was seen in the vicinity of the crime. Butler's attorney, a magnetic public defender named Patrick McGuinness, must pit his legal skills against a mountain of shoddy investigative work and corruption to save his client from life in prison. Similar in intent to HBO's Paradise Lost, Murder's white-knuckled pacing and a wealth of courtroom fireworks should leave true-crime and documentary fans breathless--and angry. --Paul Gaita

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Beating out some of the most poignant and powerful films of the last decade, this gripping, edge-of-your-seat whodunit catapulted to the top of "must see" lists everywhere when it emerged to win the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. A mesmerizi

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A documentary that holds true even after multiple viewings...a must see!.......2007-09-04

I have seen this documentary over 5-6 times since it's release and the emotion I feel every time I see it is as strong and as real as the first time I watched it on television. I don't know which emotion is stronger; the anger I feel towards the police and prosecution who failed this young man, or the despair, helplessness and sorrow I feel for and towards the innocent young man who is at the center of the documentary. From almost the very first time you see him on camera in this film, I feel in my gut that he is innocent and incapable of the crime he stands accused. And you can't help to think that those who prosecute him KNOW IT ALSO but brush that aside to further their own causes and that is, in reality, the biggest crime of all. But I digress and emplore all to see it and come to your own conclusions. I promise you it will resonate with you forever.

One of the best documentaries I've seen.......2006-10-22

It was especially moving because that wrongly accused teenager was such a wonderful, patient young man. He remained quiet, stoic, and soft-spoken throughout the tiral. But then when his mother testifies on his behalf, tears started to well up in his eyes. It really got to me, and I was crying, too. You will totally cheer for the defense! Usually this sort of courtroom docudrama doesn't get me emotional or riled up, but this film really does it for me!

a solid tv documentary taken to its heights.......2006-10-06

arguably just a glorified "48 hours" episode, but better done than anything you will see on television, telling the tale of a frameup and ultimate vindication of a young man by a corrupt police department looking for an easy bust.

Excellent documentary.......2006-09-30

This was an excellent documentary. I had never heard of this film, until I viewed it during a class. A must see...

I will never forget it........2006-08-09

Never have I seen such a powerful, gripping documentary on the criminal justice system.

How can one begin?
I immediately, upon finishing the documentary, thought of Brenton Butler, the defense attorney, Patrick McGuinness, who is the best defense attorney as I have seen for such a trial. I thought of the wronged people of the world, the innocent people behind bars, my brother, miles away in a town foreign to him, my other brothers, my friends, those who can, upon one stroke of a pen, one lie on the lips of a detective, at any given moment, be torn away from those they love, those who love them....at any given moment, lose the splendor of what brought life to the human eye to begin with.

I shall never forget this case; it reminds me, now, of why I chose my occupation and why I am degreed in another.

For those who want justice for this country and the state of the people of the world, I urge you to watch Murder on a Sunday Morning.

You will never forget it.

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Great Documentary
Good Follow-up
Lesson learned or lesson forgotten?
Propaganda and a Witch Hunt to Boot
Interesting but ....

Paradise Lost 2 - Revelations
Starring: Michael Moore , Burk Sauls , Damien Wayne Echols , Kathy Bakken , and Jessie Miskelly
Director: Kathy Bakken , Joe Berlinger , and Bruce Sinofsky
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ASIN: B00005MKOU
Release Date: 2001-08-28

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Directors Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky return to the scene of the crime with this urgent follow-up to their harrowing 1996 documentary, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills. That profoundly disturbing film chronicles the tragic and twisted case of three young men--Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley--who were convicted of the brutal 1993 murders of three second graders. The film suggests that perhaps their only crime was dressing in black and liking Metallica. To the townspeople, this smacked of Satanism and marked them as made-to-order suspects. Meanwhile, Mark Byars, the stepfather of one of the victims emerged from the film as a "Why-isn't-anyone-following-up-on-this?" suspect. Revelations, which, for those who missed the first film, efficiently recaps the case, and charts the trio's maddening appeals process (police browbeat a confession out of Misskelley, who has an IQ of 71, after 12 hours of questioning), as well as the efforts of a group of Internet advocates to "Free the West Memphis Three." Byers is back as well, and he is infinitely more terrifying than anything in Book of Shadows, Berlinger's Blair Witch sequel. We learn that Byers had all his teeth extracted in the years after the murders (human bite marks are among the new evidence introduced). We also learn that his wife has since died of undetermined causes. When Byers passes a suspect lie detector test, he exults, "I knew I was innocent." A further mystery is why both Paradise Lost films have not garnered the media attention or sparked the outrage that attended Errol Morris's The Thin Blue Line, which led to the release of an innocent man who was imprisoned for more than 10 years. Both films give new meaning to the concept of reasonable doubt. --Donald Liebenson

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Paradise Lost 2: Revelations revisits the 1994 Arkansas murder of three 8-year-old boys and the three teenagers convicted of the crime. A follow up to Paradise Lost, Revelations features new interviews with the convicted men, as well as with the original judge and police investigators. While focusing on advocates who believe the young men are innocent Revelations also includes footage of the stepfather of one of the victims, who some suspect might be involved in the crime.

A disturbing and moving documentary, Revelations is investigative journalism and advocacy at its best. This case, as with the OJ Simpson and Jon Benet Ramsy murder trials, for better or worse, will remain in the spotlight for years to come as an example of America's judicial system gone astray.

DVD Features: Filmmaker Filmographies; Exclusive Photo Gallery; Interactive Menus; Scene Selection

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Great Documentary.......2007-09-04

I'm really happy I decided to buy this dvd. I hadn't seen the first one, and I didn't feel lost watching this one. They did an incredible job in letting the truth speak for itself. I ended up buying the first one on VHS because I wanted to see everyone that was interviewed. I would've given it 5 stars if Mark Byers had been convicted by the end of the movie...

Good Follow-up.......2007-07-24

This follow-up to the documentary on the arrest and conviction of the West Memphis Three focuses a bit more on how the country became interested in the first film and starting a website and making some noise to get the three guys imprisoned for three horrific murders released. My impression of this film is that it is not as unbiased a the first and it doesn't seem to answer any questions I had from the first film ... just create more questions.

Lesson learned or lesson forgotten?.......2007-04-08

I loved Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills. It had a great message, teaching us how important the notion of "innocent until proven guilty" really is. With that in mind, the sequel to it should have never been made.

The first movie focused on rightfully condemning those who were quick to judge three teenaged defendants, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jesse Misskelly, as guilty while ignoring the complete lack of evidence supporting this verdict. "Those boys wear black and listen to heavy metal music; they look like they worship Satan; they must have committed the murders," many people thought around West Memphis, Arkansas, the rural, backward community in which the murders took place. Watching the first Paradise Lost, we were shown exactly how absurd this thinking is. Somewhere between the making of that film and the making of its sequel, Paradise Lost 2: Revelations, the films' producers lost sight of that important notion.

In Paradise Lost 2, the filmmakers are essentially judging one of the murder victims' stepfather, Mark Byers, as guilty of the Robin Hood Hills murders without really giving sufficient evidence to back this theory. There seems to be some evidence supporting his guilt (okay, a lot of evidence supporting it), but one can't help but wonder what facts the filmmakers are exaggerating, what facts they are manipulating, and what facts they are leaving out.

Mark Byers is a man who has never officially been a suspect in the West Memphis murders, and frankly there seems to be about as much evidence against him as there was evidence linking the murders to the three defendants who were found guilty of them. Mark Byers' main offense is that he looks like how a killer would look, or that he acts like how a killer would act. Sound familiar? Sounds ironic to me.

The "witches" in the first film were Damien, Jason, and Jessie and the witch hunters were exposed for what they were. In the second film, the monster is Mark Byers and the people chasing him with torches and wooden stakes are we who are ignoring the lesson learned from the first film.

Propaganda and a Witch Hunt to Boot.......2007-04-04

Paradise Lost 2 - Revelations is a poor excuse for a documentary. It never rises above the level of a tabloid. Logic and reason have been discarded in favor of attempting to paint the stepfather of one of the murdered boys as being the real killer. There is all sorts of grandstanding by likes of the unrepentant killers and their ignorant supporters.

A disturbing aspect of this documentary is the fact short shrift was given to 2 of the convicted murderers, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelly both of whom are plain looking. However, a huge amount of attention was paid to convicted murderer Damien Echols. This was done because Echols is quite handsome.

This movie is also a witch hunt. Specifically, it attempts to make the case that the real killer is one John Mark Byers who was the stepfather of one of the murdered boys. There is no attempt at balance here. All sorts of aspersions are cast on Byers without ever attempting to talk to Byers' dentist, doctors or the police officer who cleared Byers of suspicion via polygraph test. The producers of this documentary claim that Byers' wife died under mysterious circumstances. The claim was made that the dead children had bite marks all over them without disclosing that well before the documentary was made, the assertion about bite marks was thororughly discredited. Additionally, the documentary claims that Byers had all of his teeth removed without proof of it. The reality was that Byers had a disease that caused most of his teeth to fall out, but the documentary left that fact out to make Byers look as guilty as possible.

At the beginning of Paradise Lost 2 - Revelations, it was stated that most of the relatives of the 3 victims (who are the real West Memphis 3) did not want to be involved in the making of this production. Given the facts that the first Paradise Lost was horribly slanted in favor of the convicted murderers and also that this sequel was a witch hunt directed at Byers, it appears that the families of the victims showed very good judgment.

Interesting but ...........2007-02-07

Like it's predecessor, this is a fascinating and probing look at a case that continues to rouse many questions and controversies. Made a few years after the original "Paradise Lost", it is interesting to see where the people, especially the accused Memphis Three, had come to, and how they now viewed all that had happened. But a great deal of this documentary is just footage from the first - which is important in giving context - but it means that there is not all that much new content here. But what is there is very good, and very interesting. I just in some ways think it would have been better to have found a way of adding the new material onto the original documentary, turning into a single "extended version". If you watch the two together, chances are you will find this second one just a tad tedious because you will have already seen so much of it before.

Serial Killers: Real Life Hannibal Lecters

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It was okay
Excellent for Students of Criminal Psychology
A good starting point
Creepy Cool
There are CANNIBALS among us...

Serial Killers: Real Life Hannibal Lecters
Starring: Serial Killers-Real Life Hannibal Lecters
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ASIN: B00005B208
Release Date: 2001-02-27

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It was okay.......2006-03-19

I didn't find anything different from other books and DVD's. It's basically the same information you can read or look up on the internet free.

Excellent for Students of Criminal Psychology.......2006-03-16

Gives you the facts, and also the opinions of various Serial Killer experts. It gives you the stories of some of the world's most horrifying examples of human depravity. Overall it is an essential part of a true student of criminal psychology's collection.

A good starting point.......2004-04-30

This documentary primarily covers the psychological profiles and exploits of three particular serial killers (Albert Fish, Andrei Chikatilo, and Jeffrey Dahmer), and features various psychologists, authors, pioneering FBI profiler Robert Ressler, and the prosecuting and defense attorneys of the Jeffrey Dahmer trial discussing their thoughts on the events. Also given a look are the factors, conditions, and motivations that might lead someone to become a serial killer. And, as suggested by the show's title, the most infamous fictional serial killer Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter is discussed, compared and contrasted to his real-life counterparts.

While I found the presentation reasonably informative, the subject matter tended to be a bit dry at times: much of the show consisted of psychobabble from experts in the study of serial killers. Another somewhat low point was a bit of misleading advertisement: although they're featured prominently on the front of the DVD cover box, Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy are given only minimum coverage. Gacy is talked about a little bit in the show itself, but is covered in greater detail in the disc's bonus feature, a five-minute-long interview with Robert Ressler. As for Bundy, his only real presence in this show were a few quotes that popped up between chapter breaks.

Another bit of somewhat misleading advertising is the blurb on the back of the DVD case that states, "shocking never-before-seen footage" of the criminals and their horrid acts. Aside from a few scenes from the classic "night of the Living Dead" flicks, a few reenactment shots of Andrei Chikatilo drooling blood whilst hiding his latest victim in a pile of leaves, and a few black-and-white pics of Dahmer's beat-in brain in a formaldehyde jar, I didn't find any of the footage particularly shocking or outrageous. Of course, I've been watching these true-crime documentaries for so long now, I've probably become a bit jaded by it all. Still, I don't recommend this for the young'uns to watch, as the subject material is fairly graphic in nature (we ARE talking about serial killers and/or cannibals here, after all) and would likely have fallen somewhere into PG-13 territory had the MPAA rated it.

While the presentation gave a reasonable general overview of serial killers, what makes `em tick, and what may have led them down the dark path to #ell that they chose, there little here I didn't already know or heard about from other sources. Overall, I'd recommend `Serial Killers: Real-Life Hannibal Lecters" more for the novice true-crime aficionado who doesn't mind a little egg-headed psychobabble. Otherwise, I suggest you for a more in-depth documentary or documentaries on the subject.

`Late

Creepy Cool.......2003-05-10

Very good factual study inside the minds of the most prolific Serial Killers. Deliciously Disturbing. Truth is always stranger than fiction.

Don't plan on eating meat or sleeping for a while.

There are CANNIBALS among us..........2002-09-13

I owned the VHS of REAL LIFE HANNIBAL LECTERS for a while and was thrilled to see that it'd been upgraded to DVD format. For anyone interested in learning more about the criminal cannibals in the world, and the twilight zones in which they reside, this documentary is a MUST-have. Features the infamous Jeffrey Dahmer and Albert Fish cases, among several other "well-knowns". Discussed is the serial killer mentality in general, as well as possible explanations as to why some people choose to cannibalize in such a brutal fashion. For instance, Dahmer ate pieces of his victims so he could feel closer to them. Other career cannibals engage in anthropopaghy (technical word for humans consuming humans) in order to completely CONQUER the victims (as was the situation with the Russian cannibal killer Andrei Chikatilo). Very well produced, I think, with some cool haunting music and a variety of eerie quotes (some anonymous, which makes it even creepier..."IF YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT, I COULD BE YOU TOMORROW" is a chilling example!). Be warned, however, this one is NOT for the faint of heart. Afterall, this does indeed go into details of these human-flesh consumers...Do you REALLY know your neighbors?

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sexiest moustache ever.
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Outstanding, if very disturbing, film, but perhaps not everyone's cup of tea
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Normal Life

Normal Life
Starring: Ashley Judd , Luke Perry , Bruce A. Young , Jim True-Frost , and Edmund Wyson
Director: John McNaughton
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Release Date: 2005-02-15

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sexiest moustache ever........2007-09-09

this movie was the most touching and brilliant portrayal of a thick moustache that i have ever seen. It really touched me on a very deep and emotional level. i cant get the vision of luke perry's moustache out of my head and its something i never want to forget about. That moustache is this sexiest thing i have ever seen and the biggest turn on. Throughout the movie you grow more and more fond of how beautiful that hairy thing above his lip truly is. The moustache takes on a life of its own and really the director could have written a whole movie all about the moustache and nothing more...im really looking foraward to seeing if there will be a sequal focused only on the life of luke perry's brilliant moustache.

dynamite story, hitting viewers not unlike a hammer hits a nail on the head.......2007-01-07

Perhaps, in NORMAL LIFE, director John McNaughton never
realized his luck in combining the right timing,
assembling the right actors and actresses and the right
story, all wrapped into one movie, considering his other
boring one, Lansky, that was a sleeper, for example.

NORMAL LIFE is quite skeletal in its complexity (or in
other words, is not unnecessarily convoluted), telling a
dynamite story, hitting viewers not unlike a hammer hits a
nail on the head, such is the shock of seeing the
progression of a upstanding, law-abiding police officer
mutate into a hidious, stickup artist, on the word of a
hot, crazed, libido-filled, drugged, delinquent young
chick, played incredibly well by Ashley Judd, known to not
shy away from controversial, shocking and out-of-the-norm
roles.

A Christian friend of mine, having seen this movie,
admitted having cried from having seen it, in dispair of
the damage borne by the man, in an attempt to preserve
that monogamous relationship with Judd, satisfying her
many wants and needs, to the point of sacrificing his own
line of work, and putting his life on the line in criminal
enterprises for profit. Other people loved this movie,
from its originality, all praised Judd's natural feel in
playing the role that she did, and the maturity of Luke
Perry, who very well conveyed to the audience the anguish
and emotional torture endured from this wild ride of
a relationship.

Of course, NORMAL LIFE's ending, condemns the entire
behavior, as it obviously had to, considering the movie is
taken from a real life story, from almost 40 years ago,
in USA.

Outstanding, if very disturbing, film, but perhaps not everyone's cup of tea.......2006-06-26

A week ago I had never heard of this film and stumbled upon it on the Amazon website. I bought it on a whim and was amazed, I found this to be an absolutely oustanding film. The acting performance by Ashley Judd was unbelievable, I never considered her a serious actress until I saw this. She played the role of a `distressed woman' as well as Isabelle Huppert could have done, this was a performance worthy of the finest French actresses, not some lame Hollywood starlet. I can't believe I never heard of this film before, and I'm in stunned amazement that Judd could play this role so well. This is a story about a beautiful manic-depressive woman (Judd) who meets a straightlaced cop (Luke Perry) and they fall in love. Well, Perry's character falls madly in love with Judd's, and in her lucid moments, these feeling are reciprocated. If there is a better, more realistic film about mental illness, obsession, and manic-depression, I don't know what it is. We follow the ups and downs of the characters as they meet, get married, and begin their life together. They begin to have financial trouble due to Judd's obsessive spending, and Luke Perry's character resorts to robbing banks to recover their finances. This is like watching the build up to a train wreck; you know it isn't going to end well. There are some scenes in this film that are very disturbing (like the scene in which Judd shows up to her father-in-law's funeral wearing rollerblades - ouch), and this film won't appeal to everyone's tastes. If you like Huppert (particularly in films like La Ceremonie and other Chabrol films, or Coup de Torchon), you are certainly going to like this. Luke Perry also did a surprisingly good job in this film, although his role was much less demanding than AJ's. A great film, but this will not be everyone's cup of tea, so you should read the reviews and plot summaries carefully before purchasing.

Phenomenal Movie.......2006-01-12

This is a really great movie.....balanced all around
with many interesting aspects, very well emotionally
acted out by both leading actors, and so well constructed
that those watching the movie are pulled into the story,
and taken for a ride lasting almost 2 hours, much
like a rollercoaster. This is a movie very well done,
very challenging to write and film, I would guess -but
completed with incredible skill.

Normal Life.......2005-09-13

Based on a true story because no fiction writer could make it believeable. Well worth the time.

A Killing in a Small Town (True Stories Collection TV Movie)

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A Killing in a Small Town (True Stories Collection TV Movie)
Starring: Barbara Hershey , Brian Dennehy , John Terry , Richard Gilliland , and Lee Garlington
Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal
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ASIN: B000784WYU
Release Date: 2005-05-03

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Candy Morrison (Barbara Hershey, The Killer Beside Me, Chicago Hope), is bored with her life as a wife and mother in a small town. She yearns for excitement and finds it in the arms of her husband's close friend, Stan Blankenship. But, the passionate affair ends almost as soon as it began. A few weeks later, Stan's wife is found brutally murdered - axed to death. Never before in the town's history has someone been killed in such a violent manner. Unbelievably, Candy becomes the prime suspect. Is Candy merely a scapegoat? Or, does she harbor a secret that could push her past the brink of insanity? DVD extras include:About the Film, About the Stars, Interactive Menus, Scene Selections; Approx. 91 minutes; Color

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HERSHEY DOMINATES.......2007-02-16

Based on a true story and a book called EVIDENCE OF LOVE, this tv movie is made remarkable by the Emmy-winning performance of Barbara Hershey. She is utterly magnificent in the role of a middle class housewife who brutally murders her ex-lover's wife in a self defensive rage. Hershey superbly captures the many nuances of this seemingly normal woman who commits a heinous deed. Her hypnosis sequence is brutally painful and she pulls out no stops in showing us the hidden rage.
Brian Dennehy is equally good as the lawyer who tries to get her out of her terrifying predicament.
The movie is impressively done and once again worthy most of all for Ms. Hershey's dynamic presence.

DVD Killing in a Small Town.......2007-01-22

I received this DVD in excellent condition and it was packaged with care and arrival time was very fast. I would recommend this seller to everyone and would definitely buy from them again.

Great Movie.......2007-01-10

Barbra Hershy was great she is very good actress i loved the part in the court room and when she killed her best friend with a ax.

DVD: A Killing in a Small Town (The True Stories Collection).......2006-11-22

The movie grabbed my attention within first ten minutes and continued to be interesting throughout. I would highly recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys watching true crime type flicks or murder mysteries. It is also interesting from the standpoint of someone who studies personality disorders.

Sharp & Cutting.......2005-08-14

Good film portrayal of the story of axe murderess Candy Morrison and her neighbor. Rivalry, cruelty and jealousy flare up between these small town women that ends with the brutal strokes of an axe.

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Horrific
Trite and cliché-ridden
True Crime
No racisim in the Turth
Ture Crime

True Crime
Starring: Graham Beckel , Penny Bae Bridges , John Finn , Frances Fisher , and Francesca Fisher-Eastwood
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Release Date: 1999-08-10

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Not enough people went to see True Crime in theaters. Wasn't Clint Eastwood too old to be playing a guy whom a variety of glorious women, from the middle-aged Diane Venora and Laila Robins to the young Mary McCormack and Lucy Liu, find attractive? Could the onetime Man with No Name credibly play a brilliant crime reporter, Steve Everett, with an ironic turn of phrase and an incurable habit of screwing up both his personal and professional lives? The respective answers to those questions are: hell no and hell yes. True Crime features one of Eastwood's best and most entertaining performances--and his work as director is utterly assured.

The story (from Andrew Klavan's bestselling novel) gives Everett the last-minute assignment of interviewing a condemned man (Isaiah Washington) on the eve of his execution. The prisoner, a born-again Christian and exemplary family man, has everything the reporter lacks except a shot at seeing the next sunrise. Everett sets out to get him that, yet far from making a beeline to the exculpatory evidence that will save the life of his "client," this very tarnished hero has to spend a lot of the next 24 hours contending with the baggage he's accumulated through drinking, wenching, and familial neglect. (A Pirandellian note: Everett's daughter is played by Eastwood's own daughter, Francesca Fisher-Eastwood, and her mother, Frances Fisher, returns for a feisty cameo as a prosecutor.)

This is a good one that got away. Don't let it happen again. -- Richard T. Jameson

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Horrific.......2007-05-14

Ahhh.... just what the world needs: another mindless, pointlessly violent movie filled with gushing blood and bloodthirsty gangsters that do all sorts of things that are against the law, such as stealing and killing to name a couple. To top off it all off, you get to watch Clint Eastwood as his character tries to rescue an innocent man from the death penalty via electrocution. If you like Clint Eastwood, then might I suggest "Million Dollar Baby"? It's no masterpiece, but it's far more interesting and entertaining than this junk.

Trite and cliché-ridden.......2007-02-07

After watching 36 minutes of this trite and cliché-ridden waste, I am bailing out on it. It has totally failed to engage me or create the least expectation that there might be something interesting to come. A total cardboard cutout production and a major disappointment from Clint.

True Crime.......2006-12-27

This movie has its good and bad points and in the end they balance each other out to make this a reasonably decent movie to watch once. Personally, I'm not an especially big fan of these race-against-time kind of movies--especially when they are based upon true events. There's an important message in this movie, and it could have been handled in a more original manner. Not one of Clint's best movies, but certainly not one of his worst, either.

No racisim in the Turth.......2006-11-10

Man...so close, yet so far from being dead...

Clint is remarkable. I miss his Western films, but I'm also glad that he's showing us a different side of him.

A cop trying to save a family man from dying. Throughout the entire film, Clint has his audience wrapped around his finger. Trying to piece together what really happened. It goes to show you that the truth has no boundaries, and desperate times require quick thinking. Clint wanted us to think that the inevitable will happen. But he portrayed his role as a caring citizen willing to risk his job and life in believing something that everyone ruled out...the "real" truth.

Small details do make a difference and boy in today's age...people rarely care. Clint couldn't sleep at night knowing what had to be done or at least knowing he "really" tried doing the right thing.

If we as people in a civilized society can't get passed what their next door neighbor's skin is, how are we going to survive as morally descent human beings? This film portrayed the true nature of the true crime that almost sent Clint and Isaiah to death...

Ture Crime.......2006-11-10

We are real fans of Clint Eastwood and have all of his Dirty Harry movies, plus some of his newer films. This is a great movie and we have watched it several times and will continue to do so.

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Haunting...
Stellar acting makes for compelling viewing
UGH!...I lived this and still was bored to tears!!!!!!
Crap
Tour De Force, a bit chaotic

Affliction
Starring: Nick Nolte , Brigid Tierney , Holmes Osborne , Jim True-Frost , and Tim Post
Director: Paul Schrader
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ASIN: B00008RV1F
Release Date: 2003-05-20

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1998 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award winner James Coburn and Best Actor nominee Nick Nolte star in this high-powered drama about a middle-aged son trying to come to terms with his abusive past and salvaging his strained relationship with his father.

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Starring James Coburn, Jim True, Mary Beth Hurt, Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, Willem Dafoe

Directed by Paul Schrader

Running time: 114 minutes

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Paul Schrader's Affliction, adapted from the novel by Russell Banks (The Sweet Hereafter), charts the slow descent of small-town sheriff Wade Whitehouse (a raspy, gruffly restrained Nick Nolte) into violence, the legacy of the corrupt love of an abusive, alcoholic father. The story ostensibly centers on a hunting death on the outskirts of town, but as Wade digs into what may or not be a conspiracy, his personal life spirals out of control. James Coburn, who deservedly won an Oscar for his mocking, sneering performance, is Wade's father, who jumps back into the cycle of abuse when Wade moves in to care for the aging man. Chronicling the story in distant, dispassionate tones is Willem Dafoe as Wade's younger brother Rolfe, who "escaped" his father's legacy in a world of books. Schrader has made his reputation revealing the scarred psyches of American men trying to reconcile the contradictions of masculine fantasy and social reality, as in his screenplays for Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, and in Affliction he creates his most poignant and powerful work. The quiet beauty of the snow-blanketed New Hampshire setting (using Canadian locations) and Schrader's restrained yet intimate cinematic style builds the underlying emotional tensions until they explode in startling close-ups, revealing the repressed fear, rage, and helplessness cracking through Wade's carefully maintained façade. As Rolfe's narration coolly analyzes his brother's affliction, he reveals his own: an emotional remove so complete that he's edited himself out of his family history. The legacy of abuse leaves no one untouched. --Sean Axmaker

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Haunting..........2007-08-04

I watched this movie late at night on the IFC a few years ago, and it haunts me still. The abuse of a child lingers on, and it's so evident in this movie. I have a very difficult relantionship with my own father, and found myself moved to tears in this movie. The ending shocked me, and very few movies have the power to do that to me. I highly recommend this film, as long as you understand what you're getting into by watching it.

Stellar acting makes for compelling viewing.......2007-07-06

I never watched Affliction until a few days ago, and was pleasantly surprised. The story centers around Nick Nolte, who plays a small town cop going through a rough patch, with a failed marriage, and a young daughter who seems to be growing apart from him. He pursues a shooting case that he suspects is a murder conspiracy, and things get more complicated when his mother dies, forcing him to take responsibility for an aging dad who is also violent &abusive [played convincingly by James Coburn].

There are frequent flashbacks by Nolte to his violent childhood [the make-up people did a great job in portraying a youngish looking James Coburn], and Coburn does a great job playing the abusive, alcoholic father who rages at his family [wife, and two sons].

There are good supporting roles here besides James Coburn...there is Sissy Spacek who plays Margie, the supportive lover to Nolte's character. There is Willem Dafoe, who though has limited screen time, provides the voice-over narration for the movie & also plays the younger son, Rolfe, who distances himself from the domestic tragedy that is his past by pursuing a scholarly life.

The story is not really anything new: a violent and abusive legacy that torments Nolte's character, begging the question: is the cycle of violence & abuse something that is cyclical, doomed to be repeated through successive generations? Yet, despite the predictable storyline, the acting is excellent, and the story moves along at a steady pace, as we slowly witness Nolte's cop character being driven slowly but surely towards the brink... a dark and tragic story that makes for compelling viewing.

UGH!...I lived this and still was bored to tears!!!!!!.......2007-06-20

AFFLICTION is about one thing alone; how abuse affects future generations and those that are in the path of the abuser.That said, having come from the this background myself, all I could think of is "Yes this is all sadly true. I know that. I have experienced it first hand. Why did someone feel compelled to make a film about it?" If this film was to enlighten those who lived the idyllic childhood with great parents, perhaps then that audience will be the one most affected by their own disbelief that something could be so tragic. I lived through all that this movie presented, and personally was bored with the entire plot. I knew from moment one where this film was going and NOTHING shocked me or moved me in the least...not even the ending.

AFFLICTION presents an absolute hopeless and nonredeeming story of the legacy of abuse as if there is no escape and nothing but misery and aimlessness for those that lived through it. I cannot disagree more, and this is why I found the movie dull and arriving at a wrong conclusion as far as I am concerned. True, many do not rise above these unfortunate circumstances...granted. There are just as many that do,though! This film presented the "victim" side of abuse and not the "victorious". These people in this New Hampshire town just walked about in a mindless fog,victims simply carrying out their fate. Not for me! Sorry.

Despite James Coburn playing the drunk and violent father, I still believe that his Oscar win was a sympathy nod due to his age.I have seen this role done better and with more force from Dicken's adaptations. Nolte was nothing special and neither was Sissy Spacek. Willem Dafoe has little screen time and does deadpan narration. This film is as bleak as they come and nothing special...especially for those who broke the "affliction" of violence in their own lives.

As important a subject as abuse and violence is, that does not mean that with an assemblage of Oscar winning actors makes it at all a great, watchable or even necessary film.

Films such as the French A LOVING FATHER handled this subject with alot more panache and evenhandedness.

Okay....you can come after me now!!! Let's see where the violence is lurking in you!

Crap.......2007-06-09

Just because a movie is "indie" and isn't "Hollywood" does not in itself mean that it's good. Based on the evidence of this and The Sweet Hereafter I feel pretty sure that Russell Banks' books, while they may make for acceptable fiction, are not suited for the screen.

The performances are good, particularly Coburn. It's so nice to see Sissy Spacek in ANYTHING, and Nolte was fine, but his performance in The Thin Red Line was much more intense and said much more (to me) about male pride and violence that this entire movie did.

First of all, are we really all shocked to learn that violent and abusive parents beget violent and abusive children? Is that news? Is there anything else this movie has to say? I left the theater feeling that the performances and direction were fine, it's just that what this film had to say just wasn't very interesting. I can see why actors wanted to be in it, since there are so few characters these days, but why make this movie? What does it really have to offer anyone? And why see it?

This is actually one of the movies that was most instrumental in my decision to sharply reduce the amount of movies I see in the theaters, and to stop seeing all these crappy "acclaimed indie" movies of the week. Paul Schrader, if you ever read this, please know that your film put at least me not just off that film, but off of watching movies forever! You know, if you can reach just one person...

Tour De Force, a bit chaotic.......2006-05-31

Excellent idea, nolte, coburn, and spacek carry this movie through a somewhat chaotic script. Different, deep and thought provoking, unlike most mindless dribble comeing out of hollywood.

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