Rating: R
Genre:
Crime
Release Date: 03/31/1998
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: French/Espanol/English
Sound: DD5.1/DD2
Run Time: 124 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Adult Humor
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar
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. Here he gets involved with the locals, including an unhappily married couple -- a businessman (
Nick Nolte) and his seductive, femme-fatale wife (
Jennifer Lopez). A trailer trash teen (
Claire Danes) also approaches him in an effort to get away from her abusive boyfriend (
Joaquin Phoenix). Tensions in the town escalate, eventually leading to murder. Stone wanted to change the title from
U-Turn back to
Stray Dogs but encountered a problem with
Akira Kurosawa, who felt it was too similar to his detective classic,
Stray Dog (1949) with
Toshiro Mifune.
~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
