U Turn
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| U Turn | |
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| Directed by | Oliver Stone |
| Produced by | Dan Halsted Clayton Townsend |
| Written by | John Ridley (book and screenplay) Oliver Stone |
| Starring | Sean Penn Nick Nolte Jennifer Lopez Powers Boothe |
| Music by | Ennio Morricone |
| Cinematography | Robert Richardson |
| Editing by | Hank Corwin Thomas J. Nordberg |
| Distributed by | TriStar Pictures Phoenix Pictures |
| Release date(s) | August 27, 1997 (Telluride Film Festival) |
| Running time | 125 min. |
| Country | France United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $19,000,000 (estimated) |
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U Turn is a 1997 Neo-noir/drama film directed by Oliver Stone, based on the book Stray Dogs by John Ridley. It stars Sean Penn, Billy Bob Thornton, Jennifer Lopez, Jon Voight, Powers Boothe, Joaquin Phoenix, Claire Danes and Nick Nolte.
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[edit] Plot
The plot concerns a drifter (Penn) who ends up entangled in a plot involving a woman (Lopez) and her husband (Nolte), also finding himself in conflict with the town mechanic (Thornton).
[edit] Cast
- Sean Penn as Bobby Cooper
- Nick Nolte as Jake McKenna
- Jennifer Lopez as Grace McKenna
- Powers Boothe as Sheriff Virgil Potter
- Claire Danes as Jenny
- Joaquin Phoenix as Toby N. Tucker a.k.a. TNT
- Jon Voight as Blind Man
- Billy Bob Thornton as Darrell
- Abraham Benrubi as Biker #1
- Richard Rutowski as Biker #2
- Aida Linares as Jamilla
- Sean Stone as Boy in Grocery Store
- Ilia Volokh as Sergei
- Valeri Nikolayev as Mr. Arkady
- Brent Briscoe as Boyd
- Bo Hopkins as Ed
- Julie Hagerty as Flo
- Liv Tyler as Girl in Bus Station "cameo appearance"
- Laurie Metcalf as Bus Station ticket attendant "cameo appearance"
[edit] Production
U Turn was filmed in 1996 on location in Superior, Arizona and other areas of Arizona and California.
[edit] Reception
Roger Ebert gave the film 1½ stars, deeming it a "repetitive, pointless exercise in genre filmmaking—the kind of film where you distract yourself by making a list of the sources"[1]. Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote that it "demonstrates a filmmaker in complete command of his craft and with little control over his impulses"[2].
[edit] Remake
- A Bollywood remake of the movie was made in 2004 called Musafir starring Sanjay Dutt and Anil Kapoor.
[edit] External links
- U-Turn at the Internet Movie Database
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