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Release Date
• USA: Oct 3, 1997
DVD Release Date
• R1: Mar 31, 1998
Budget $19,000,000
MPAA Rating
Rated R for strong violence, sexuality and language.
Running Time
2 hours, 5 minutes
Country France, USA
Production Companies
Canal+ Droits Audiovisuels, Clyde Is Hungry Films, Illusion Entertainment Group, Phoenix Pictures
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Other Titles
• U Turn (1997)
• Stray Dogs
• U-Turn - Kein Weg zurück (1998)
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Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama, Betrayal, Love Triangle, Racy, Suspense, Love, Murder, Black Comedy, Thieves
Tagline: Sex. Murder. Betrayal. Everything that makes life worth living.
Plot: A noirish departure for issue-oriented director Oliver Stone, U-TURN stars Sean Penn as Bobby, a gambler on the run who has the misfortune to have his radiator hose blow in a godforsaken Arizona hole-in-the-wall. He quickly meets the stunning Grace McKenna (Jennifer Lopez), and they go to her place to become better acquainted. When her husband, real estate king Jake (Nick Nolte), catches the two together in the bedroom, they fight, but at a later meeting, he proposes that Bobby kill his wife for a reasonable sum. At first the gambler turns him down, but when all his money is torn to shreds in a freak accident, he realizes that he won't be able to get his car fixed unless he goes along. Grace's considerable charm, combined with her account of the mistreatment she's suffered at her husband's hands, dissuades Bobby from the job. But she now offers him the same deal to kill Jake. To add to his problems, Bobby is being hawked by the suspicious sheriff (Powers Boothe) and has been targeted by local badass Toby (Joaquin Phoenix), who thinks Bobby is after his girlfriend, Jenny (Clare Danes). Penn turns in a fine performance in this overripe noir, and the photograpy is excellent. The film is based on the excellent short novel STRAY DOGS by John Ridley, who also served as one of the
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| Written by |
John Ridley
Three Kings, Undercover Brother, Those Who Walk in Darkness |
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Ennio Morricone
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Untouchables, Once Upon a Time in America |
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