Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Release Date: 06/05/2001
SubTitles: French/Espanol/English
Dubbed: English/Espanol
Sound: 5.1/1
Run Time: 114 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: MGM
A wildly inventive and entertaining comic nightmare from former
Roger Corman prodigy
Jonathan Demme (
The Silence of the Lambs), this screwball odyssey is a ride to remember.
Jeff Daniels plays clean-cut New York bond trader
Charlie Driggs, who accepts a ride home from a strange but attractive lower-class woman named
Lulu (
Melanie Griffith). The sexy
Louise Brooks lookalike doesn't take him home, but shanghais him for a bizarre roadtrip to Virginia that includes kinky bondage sex, destruction of property, and robbery. Things get stranger when
Lulu tells
Charlie that her real name is
Audrey and takes him home to meet her mother, asking him to pose as her husband. The charade continues until her high-school reunion, where the roadtrip (and the entire film) takes a sharp U-turn into
psycho-thriller territory.
Audrey's dangerously psychotic ex-con husband,
Ray Sinclair (
Ray Liotta), shows up. What had been a liberating fling for
Charlie turns into a bloody and vicious battle for survival.
~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
;)
