Beautiful "coming of age" film
Added 4/1/2005
Strong sense of place, beautiful, haunting score and photography, strong performances by numerous actors. This film, I've watched it at least 10 times...I never get tired of it..
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scorpio1113
Added 4/1/2004
Two hours of your life you'll never get back again....
I bought this video second-hand merely because a friend of a friend is an extra in the film. When I saw the line-up of stars (Sam Shepherd, Mary Kay Place, Dermot Mulroney) I thought it would be worthwhile for sure. Never was I so mistaken! What a drag! None of the big names, except Mulroney, are on screen for more than 3 minutes, total production costs were probably about $7.98. Low-life white trash in primer-covered cars, a sleeping-around wife kicked out of the house, a slatternly road chick going to get her brother out of jail, fights at the bus station. Save your time and your money. The final scene of the main character in the back of a pick-up truck, a bemused and vacant look on his face, I expected something to really start happening but that was the end of the film. Just call me chump for spending $3.00 on this turkey.
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Nice scenery, bad script
Added 5/29/2001
Set in the desolate expanses of working-class and sub-criminal Montana and Oklahoma, it's a kinda-sorta coming of age story where characters wander through the plot without any particular purpose and things just seem to happen without any particular reason. That's great in real life--people do tend to wander aimlessly in and out of each other's lives and things do just sort of happen without any discernable pattern--but it makes for a bad movie. The only real drama of the film happens about 3/4ths of the way through it... and it's way too brief. Lili Taylor and Bill Pullman give nice performances (which is why the flick gets two stars instead of one), but there's not much else worthwhile here. Pass on this one unless you're the world's greatest Lili Taylor fan or don't have anything else to spend the $8 on.
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An amazing film
Added 3/7/2000
I was one of the few people to see this movie when it first came out, and I thought it was amazing. A strong sense of place and mood, and a haunting performance from Mulroney,
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Lili Taylor is reason enough to see this film
Added 1/4/2000
This somewhat flawed coming of age film is remarkable for the performance of Lili Taylor as Lucy, a world-weary young woman out to save her brother from jail. Richard Ford has written some wonderful dialogue for her character but to appreciate it you have to see her delivery. Wonderful cast includes Sam Shepherd, Mary Kay Place, Valerie Perrine and Bill Pulliam. Score is original and interesting.
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Beautiful "coming of age" film
Added 4/1/2005
Strong sense of place, beautiful, haunting score and photography, strong performances by numerous actors. This film, I've watched it at least 10 times...I never get tired of it..
1 out of 1 people found this helpful.
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scorpio1113
Added 4/1/2004
Two hours of your life you'll never get back again....
I bought this video second-hand merely because a friend of a friend is an extra in the film. When I saw the line-up of stars (Sam Shepherd, Mary Kay Place, Dermot Mulroney) I thought it would be worthwhile for sure. Never was I so mistaken! What a drag! None of the big names, except Mulroney, are on screen for more than 3 minutes, total production costs were probably about $7.98. Low-life white trash in primer-covered cars, a sleeping-around wife kicked out of the house, a slatternly road chick going to get her brother out of jail, fights at the bus station. Save your time and your money. The final scene of the main character in the back of a pick-up truck, a bemused and vacant look on his face, I expected something to really start happening but that was the end of the film. Just call me chump for spending $3.00 on this turkey.
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Nice scenery, bad script
Added 5/29/2001
Set in the desolate expanses of working-class and sub-criminal Montana and Oklahoma, it's a kinda-sorta coming of age story where characters wander through the plot without any particular purpose and things just seem to happen without any particular reason. That's great in real life--people do tend to wander aimlessly in and out of each other's lives and things do just sort of happen without any discernable pattern--but it makes for a bad movie. The only real drama of the film happens about 3/4ths of the way through it... and it's way too brief. Lili Taylor and Bill Pullman give nice performances (which is why the flick gets two stars instead of one), but there's not much else worthwhile here. Pass on this one unless you're the world's greatest Lili Taylor fan or don't have anything else to spend the $8 on.
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