U - Turn
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- Synopsis
- Oliver Stone directed this John Ridley screenplay adapted from Ridley's novel Stray Dogs. A drifter (Sean Penn) eludes Las Vegas collection agents and arrives in a small town where he decides to linger after his car has a breakdown....
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- Director(s)
- Oliver Stone
- Distributor(s)
- Phoenix Pictures
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 125 min.
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Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites
U-Turn is an overdue event, a chance for Stone to apply his hypnotic acid-trip-of-the-soul wizardry to something sexy and lowdown.Read the full review
The New York Times | Janet MaslinAdd Critic to Favorites
However simply he approaches this familiar milieu, Mr. Stone winds up treating his story's sin-soaked connivers the way Francis Ford Coppola treated vampires. Neither of them is really capable of anything plain.Read the full review
Variety | Todd McCarthyAdd Critic to Favorites
The stylistic fun Stone has in dramatizing this crime of passion thoroughly revitalizes the well-worked genre.Read the full review
