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Summary: AMAZING
Review: ANY ONE WHO GAVE THIS A BAD REVIEW JUST DOES NOT GET IT !!!!!
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Summary: Welcome to Hollywood - Now Go Home!
Review: Sean Penn, Anna Paquin, Kevin Spacey, Gary Shandling, Robin Wright Penn, Meg Ryan, Chazz Palmintieri - Cripes! Is there anybody who ISN'T in this intense, "actors' piece"? A group of self-centered, mean-spirited, industry players (and their tangent acquaintances), roll out their inner conflicts, fears, character flaws, quasi-relationships, and unpleasant quirks for us in painful detail, as they work/drug/booze/screw/scam their way through their respective industry careers. Not a redeeming soul to be found in this fascinating look at the amoral folks who run "the business."
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Summary: Semantic Sublimity
Review: Love/Hate. Most certainly. As a lover, I feel no compelling need to defend this film. It is a self-sustaining entity, a comprehensive experience. It is HURLY BURLY. But haters condemn this film so passionately. (i.e deep down you love it) Indifference is not an option. Why? Because Hurly Burly IS excess. Beautiful excess. However, in this case, excess does not lead to the palace of wisdom. When does it ever? This is one good existential, abusurdist romp with a (well-disguised) heart. I doesn't hurt that the casting was brilliant...Penn and Spacey as roommates! But the writing, the writing. Infectious Language. A refreshingly non-existent plot. Hurly Burly is hyper-conscious, hyper-psychological, hyper-hyper. I can't get enough of this movie. I can't wait to read the play. Thanks Mr. Rabe. Maybe this did turn out to be compelling defense.
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: This movie most obviously benefits from a flawlessly written script and exceptional acting. The dialogue is written remarkably well and the entire cast (including Kevin Spacey, Sean Penn, Anna Paquin, Robin Wright Penn, Meg Ryan, and Garry Shandling) recites it with perfection, even through long and drawn out, yet very interesting conversations. The acting and direction makes the characters seem like real people, and we are merely onlookers viewing a small portion of their complicated lifestyles in the Hollywood upperclass. Sean Penn gives one of his best performances as Eddie and Kevin Spacey does a great job as the cynical Mickey, though he isn't given as much screen time as he deserves. Meg Ryan and Anna Paquin show up more as cameos, rather than actual characters, but they play their brief parts to perfection. If you can stand watching a movie that focuses on the characters and the story without any action or special effects, than this movie is worth watching.
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Summary: boring
Review: i found my self fastfowarding through long dialogues with spacdey and peen on the proch which seemed to be an hour long
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Summary: A WASTE OF TIME
Review: When I was younger, I had the habit to see each movie until its end and I can't remember having left a theatre in the middle of a projection. But, as years go by, time becomes more valuable and I don't have now the faintest scruple to eject a DVD when the movie is boring.So I've seen maybe one hour of HURLYBURLY before giving up. This movie has all the defaults of this wave of films trying to imitate the best Woody Allen's movies. Narcissism of the director who has certainly given birth to this thing after years of intellectual masturbation, terrible waste of the talent of the good actors involved in the project and a subject that is not the least universal and will only arouse the interest of the so-called artistic circles of Los Angeles. Nothing else. I'm gone. A DVD for the others.
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Summary: worthwhile
Review: ok, so you just watched some out there movie called hurlyburly and your askin yourself "what the hell was that?" well, that was one of the most profound well spoken movies you've seen in some time. i felt the acting was definately up there in rank. whats the plot? good question cause i dont really know myself. if you're not scared of big bad words and you have a questioning mind then this is a good choice. peace
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Summary: Really bad movie
Review: As one of Kevin Spacey's biggest fans, I have to say his performace is the only bright spot in this otherwise bland and utterly pointless movie. If someone wanted to do a movie about life in Hollywood Hills, why not make a movie with a PLOT? The performances were all good (although I have to say I did not like Robin Wright--she was good in The Princess Bride and Forrest Gump, but not in this), but the movie is bad. It's really not worth the two hours it takes to watch.
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Summary: Complete waste of two hours
Review: Like many people, I was drawn to this movie by its amazing cast. Other than Meg Ryan's perky single-mom drug sniffing prostitute character, this film failed miserably in its attempt to get us to care at all about the characters. You can't fault the acting, but the dialogue was so inane and completely unbelievable that you could not like, hate or even care in the slightest bit about the characters. I am not a drug-crazed Hollywood casting agent so I can't of course speak with authority, but I fail to believe that anyone, much less people with a head full of drugs, talks the way these people do. I mean c'mon, at one point they are having sex with a very young girl, sharing her amongst themselves, and next having mellow discussions (well they started mellow, almost every scene in this movie ended with people yelling at each other) about fate and existence and spouting off pop psychology about each others personalities. Sure, we all get reflective and talk about the same issues these characters do, but no one, and I mean no one, talks to their buddies about relationships and life with the vocabulary in this movie. Except for the scene where the arguement starts in the house and continues through the day on cell phones, in the office, then on cell phones again, this movie was a complete bore. It should have been left as a play. Want to see a movie with a bunch of men with problems being mean and cursing at each other, then spend your money on "Glenngary Glen Ross."
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Summary: Death is preferable.........
Review: to watching this waste of celluloid. All I could think while watching Hurlyburly was how much I'd rather be dead. It's hard to say which performance ranks as the most tedious but it's definitely a toss-up between Meg Ryan and Kevin Spacey. Listening to the characters ramble on about nothing was boring, trite and worst of all just plain irritating. SKIP THIS FILM AT ALL COSTS!
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