Hurlyburly (New Line Platinum Series) | Sean Penn, Kevin Spacey

Hurlyburly (New Line Platinum Series) | Sean Penn, Kevin Spacey | A Great Cult Classic.

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Superior Sean Penn

An adaptation of David Rabe's play which was successfully revived this year both off- and on-Broadway last season.
It would be difficult to find a better cast and production than this fil.
Penn, Kevin Spacey and Meg Ryan are terrific.
A great addition to any serious actor's DVD collection.

A Great Cult Classic.

This movie is a chaotic spree of comdey and great acting. A cast worthy of only the highest award, Hurlyburly is a great underground hit. The plot is twisting and disturbing, but the characters in it make it so funny it's hard not to laugh constantly. Plus anything with Cazz P. is tremendous.

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the amazon review sucks

yeah it sounds like good ol doug thomas is a little bitter about the fact that he's writing movie reviews for amazon and not screenplays. this movie does actually rock, and is one of the best for those that enjoy movies about the hollywood scene and LA in general (The Player...etc). yuppies abound, and yes they are pretty shallow and are also a bunch of whiners. but what makes the movie, aside from the outrageously dope cast, is the acting. you start to wonder how close to right on these characters are, since it's kind of obvious that the cast have extensive dealings with these types in "real life". sean penn definitely comes off as the greatest ever, and seeing him in a comedy is a good thing with all the really heavy stuff he's done recently, which is also great (21 Grams). kevin spacey never seems to fail, and he gives us a really killer performance as a yuppie bastard a la Swimming With Sharks. of course anything anna paquin does must be seen, usually repeatedly, and this is no exception. and to top it all off, where else can you see meg ryan playing a hooker that gets thrown out of a car by chazz palmentieri? that should sell it right now for any sane person. of course, there are a lot of words spoken in this flick, so if you cant read too good, maybe skip it. this is the thugness. just buy it.

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Fun yet disturbing.

I was surprised I hadn't heard of this film before, considering the box-office draw of the actors involved. I then realized after putting it on that it was more of a 'vanity' picture. A literary book rather than a 'blockbuster' novel. It's taken from a play, is of course very theatrical and allows the actors involved to flex a bit more of their acting muscle than they would have been given in a conventional Hollywood movie. It's a very masculine play and is quite satirical on the nature of men's emotional inadequeces. Whether they be childish emotions (Sean Penn, Chazz Palminteri) or just plainly non-emotional (Kevin Spacey, Garry Shandling). It also makes no disguise of the characters' blatent mysoginy, exploring the darker side of the male psyche with comedic results. The fast-paced, intelligent dialogue makes it a pleasant change from the usual mid-west subject matter.

I started to feel slightly relieved when I thought that this mightn't be an exploration of men's psychological make-up, but rather a satire on Hollywood movie executives. However concern started creeping back in when I realized these could be some of the brains behind what we consume on TV and at the movies.

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