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Summary: What are you waiting for???
Review: This movie is a gem. Had to drive to Chapel Hill from Greensboro, NC in 1996 to see this film when it first 'came out', since GSO wasn't gonna show it and had no intention to!! Wow - was it worth the gas money and then some!! What a wonderful movie! Suspense, sex, love, murder, theft, betrayal... need I go on? Yes, film noir. Yes, lesbian sex (and how!) Yes, Jesse Helms would hate it (but I'd love to make him watch it with his wife!) RUN to rent or own this film!! DVD is probably the best bet since you can see the DIRECTOR's commentary, too. Very interesting. In any event, this movie is fun to watch, never boring, and who can argue with the star power and chemistry of Joey Pants, Gina Gershon, and the voluptuous Jennifer Tilly?!?!? Check it out and have some fun!!
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Summary: WHOA!
Review: this movie is hot!the chemistry between the lovely leading ladies is incredible.the plot is thick with twists and turns,the acting from all is fantastic.the directors did a great job not exploiting the lesbian theme(although that would have been tolerated for sure).it was briskly paced and had me watching intensely well after said lesbian act was over.i hope ms tilly and ms gershon team up again soon.
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Summary: Cool movie!
Review: This movie was a really good movie..if I would've seen it when it first came out(1996) I'm sure I would have thought it was really original.Still the movie was really good and had me sitting on the edge of my seat. This movie had everything..drama, action, romance,and mystery. The story and actors were great!
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Summary: a new (to me) genre -- lesbian film noir
Review: This is a wonderful movie -- it's exciting and campy at the same time. It also looks really good, but if you look at it closely you realize that it was made really cheaply (which I find even more impressive). It was the first outing of the Wachowski brothers (who most recently have been making "The Matrix" movies), and stars Gina Gershon, Jennifer Tilly, and Joe Pantoliano, who all give excellent performances. One of the treats of the DVD is to listen to the commentary track, which starts off fairly typically with the W. brothers and some crew (including the "lesbian sex consultant") talking about the movie. However, the three leads show up about midway through (they were actually late!) and then the track is hilarious. Gershon and Tilly are a riot, and their remarks lead to revealing comments from the W. brothers and Pantoliano that I found both convulsively funny and fascinating. And I've never heard as spontaneous and honest a self-evaluation as Tilly talking about herself in some of these scenes.
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Summary: Cliched and overrated
Review: The movie was mildly sexy and a bit clever, but overall I found it to be cliched and pat. The last line of the movie, which epitomized the tone of comformity that existed throughout the movie to be a "good dyke" was frustratingly corny and an insult to my intelligence. I mean, please!
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Summary: Toptastic
Review: If you enjoyed Better than Chocolate then this has the extra twist of a real storylinbe!
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Summary: Stylish and sexy film noir
Review: First, let me compliment the cast. The two female leads, I believe, did an absolutely fabulous job with their roles, and convinced me that they could have actually have fallen in love. That is very important, because everything else that happens in the film is dependent on believing that they have developed enough love and trust in each other to pull off the caper they are attempting. Joe Pantoliano also does a good job as the mobster trying to pull himself out of the hole he finds himself in when the movie really kicks into gear. Okay, to get to the plot. Basically, Jennifer Tilly's character(Violet) sees and then meets Gina Gershon's character(Corky), they develop a relationship, fall in love, and then decide to steal over two million dollars from the mob and blame it on Violet's boyfriend. That's only the nut shell though, the actual story takes many twists and turns over this material as things start spinning wildly out of control, and things don't always go the way that the girls had planned. A lot of the story depends on split timing from the girls, and the belief that they could trust one another enough to pull this off after knowing each other for such a short time, and the fact that they could have fallen in love with one another. Their relationship does seem to develop fairly fast, but from the first time the two of them really talked to one another over a cup of coffee, to the scene where Violet entices Corky over by asking her to get an earring she dropped down the drain out for her, I was sold. Just listening to Violet breathlessly asking Corky to kiss her as they sat on the couch after the earring episode was an experience in itself. After that, when the money enters the picture, their relationship is primarily put on the back burner as everything now hinges around the money. The money is stolen, rather cleverly, but from there things start going downhill for the two of them. Ceasar, Pantoliano's character, doesn't react the way Corky thought he would, and soon the bodies begin to pile up, and after a little trick with a redial button, the girls find themselves in real danger, where they really need their trust in one another to save their lives. The pace of the movie always remains brisk, and I found myself constantly sitting on the edge of my seat as I watching it, all the way through until the end. I don't want to spoil the ending for anyone, so don't read the end of this if you haven't already seen the movie. I like the movies where the bad guy gets his, and although almost everyone in this movie was a bad guy in one way or another, even the two female leads, I still enjoyed seeing Violet blow Ceasar away, and the two girls riding off into the metaphoric sunset with the two million dollars. A most enjoyable way to spend two hours of your time, at least in my book. Hope you think so too.
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Summary: NOT FOR EVERYBODY
Review: Some people appreciate this movie because they like watching women in sexual relationships together, and in this film Gina Gershon plays a lesbian plumber who hooks up with a gangster's girlfriend (Jennifer Tilly). Personally I am not a fan of either actress, so this made the film rather unbelievable. The first time I saw this, I rented it. The clerk at the video store asked me several times if I was really sure that I wanted that film because it could be quite ugly and disturbing. And I did. I rented it and found that while it was not particularly ugly or disturbing, it just wasn't good. The two women scheme to try to get a large sum of money from the gangster boyfriend, which will get the gangster boyfriend in trouble with higher-ups... which will get him killed. But the story is not presented well. Gershon is convincing in her role, but Tilly is never convincing to me in hers. The other people were so plain that I don't remember them at all. Gershon's skepticism about Tilly's honesty is the best and most convincing part here. But to each his own.
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Summary: Incredible. Every piece of it.
Review: Well, you've read all reviews and know about the violence and lesbian love scene. Don't let this prompt for easy labeling or fast forwarding. Every moment in the movie is dedicated to something. Or rather some things at once. Character flip-flops and timeframe changes are gorgeous. Sound thricks make a welcome addition to computer-generated _graphics_ dominance. Lines lead to development, development changes the meanings of previous lines.
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Summary: Sleek stylish mob thriller with a twist
Review: This movie is highly underrated. It obsessively follows all the conventions of a typical mobster movie (blood, guts, violence, guns, etc), but with a gender-bending twist. Beautifully filmed and very compelling, but not for children or for the squeamish.
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