Movie Description Oliver Stone shelved his social conscience while making this vicious nest-of-vipers noir. Sean Penn stars as Bobby Cooper, a gambler on the run who is forced to lay up in a desolate Arizona whistlestop with car trouble. Desperate and broke, he receives an offer from the middle-aged Jake McKenna (Nick Nolte) to kill his beautiful young wife, Grace (Jennifer Lopez). Initially reluctant, he's finally forced to contemplate the deal. But the fun doesn't really begin until Grace hires Bobby to kill Jake. The film is based on the modern noir novel STRAY DOGS by John Ridley.
| Credits | | Producer: | Dan Halsted, John Ridley | | Cast: | Bo Hopkins, Jennifer Lopez, Joaquin Phoenix, Laurie Metcalf, Sean Penn |
| Details | | Edition: | French and Spanish Subtitles |
Notes DVD Features:
Region 1 Keep Case Widescreen Pan & Scan - 1.33 Additional Release Material: Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer Interactive Features: Scene Selections, Screenwriter John Ridley, on whose novel (STRAY DOGS) U-TURN is based, created an animated online series for urbanentertainment.com called UNDERCOVER BROTHER.
Editorial Reviews "...A raucously joke-filled black comedy....Stone's new wild style converts U TURN into a roaring broadside of colliding images..." Sight and Sound - p.58-9 - Philip Strick (05/01/1998)
"...Richly funny....Oliver Stone finally proves he has a sense of humor in U-Turn..." USA Today - p.8D - Mike Clark
"...U-Turn becomes a showcase for the filmmaker's terrific arsenal of visual mannerisms and free-association imagery..." New York Times - p.E18 - Janet Maslin (10/03/1997)
"...[Stone] infuses the genre with his dazzling gift for ambiguous poetic menace....[He] makes every shot a jolt, a sliver of ominous perception..." Entertainment Weekly - Owen Gleiberman (10/10/1997)
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