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Summary: Not a good buy at all
Review: I bought this movie because I collect movies with Cameron Diaz and I can say it was disapointing. She appears during one minute at the beginning and never again!
I didn't find any interest in the story, and I was yawning all the time. How boring can this be?
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Summary: Cool little film; lousy DVD release!
Review: I could hold forth on the relative merits of this DVD's entertainment value--you get to see some weird incarnations of various prominent actors, James Spader looking particularly weird; not that many flicks set in Oklahoma these days; Joanna Going carried the film, etc. etc.--but instead I think I'll criticize the DVD itself. First off, it has exactly ONE "special feature" (production stills, at that!). Furthermore, not only does this disc lack the extended cut (missing 3 minutes, this is just the R-rated version), it is also, most pathetically of all, full-frame only. Come on! This is a 2002 release of a **1997** film, and somehow they couldn't manage a widescreen edition. Has the distributor already been repossessed or something? It's DVDs like this that make me doubt for the future of the medium. Get with the program, Artisan!
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Summary: Joanna Going -- WOW!
Review: It's offensive that Cameron Diaz is on the cover of this thing, when her mediocre part is over just about as soon as the credits.Joanna Going gave her all, meanwhile, and isn't mentioned on the box at all. I bought the DVD to see her, and every red-blooded male out there bought it for the same reason. Who are they kidding with this Cameron Diaz jazz? It's a taut mystery story, too, with real characters in an unreal situation. I loved it.
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Summary: Keys to Insanity
Review: Just how bad can a movie starring James Coburn (who would win the Oscar for Affliction, also 1997), Mary Tyler Moore, Eric Stoltz, James Spader and Deborah Unger (more effective and affecting as a married couple in Crash), Michael Rooker (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer), Joanna Going and, in a bit part, a pre-There's Something About Mary Cameron Diaz be? Far worse than I thought. I have no idea why these actors, who've all done better work elsewhere, would have agreed to star in such a stinker. Easily one of the more inept entries in the overcrowded post-Pulp Fiction dying-to-be-hip black comic neo-noir derby. Stoltz, saddled with a bad haircut and the unfortunate name of Richter Boudreau, is completely miscast as a reporter who mostly just walks around with his shirt open, and his love scenes with Vicky (Unger) and Cherry (Going) are pretty tepid, especially in the scene where Going's punk rock stripper character drags herself over a plate of sausage and eggs en route to a morning quickie (can you say yuck?). And the film isn't even half as interesting as I've made it sound! Cinematography and soundtrack are competent, but the story doesn't make much sense, dialogue is DOA, characters uninteresting, direction listless and actors bored. Only some morbid and compulsive form of curiosity kept me going until the very end. Not even bad-good.
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Summary: Keys to Insanity
Review: Just how bad can a movie starring James Coburn (who would win the Oscar for Affliction, also 1997), Mary Tyler Moore, Eric Stoltz, James Spader and Deborah Unger (more effective and affecting as a married couple in Crash), Michael Rooker (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer), Joanna Going and, in a bit part, a pre-There's Something About Mary Cameron Diaz be? Far worse than I thought. I have no idea why these actors, who've all done better work elsewhere, would have agreed to star in such a stinker. Easily one of the more inept entries in the overcrowded post-Pulp Fiction dying-to-be-hip black comic neo-noir derby. Stoltz, saddled with a bad haircut and the unfortunate name of Richter Boudreau, is completely miscast as a reporter who mostly just walks around with his shirt open, and his love scenes with Vicky (Unger) and Cherry (Going) are pretty tepid, especially in the scene where Going's punk rock stripper character drags herself over a plate of sausage and eggs en route to a morning quickie (can you say yuck?). And the film isn't even half as interesting as I've made it sound! Cinematography and soundtrack are competent, but the story doesn't make much sense, dialogue is DOA, characters uninteresting, direction listless and actors bored. Only some morbid and compulsive form of curiosity kept me going until the very end. Not even bad-good.
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Summary: Unpleasant movie with some wonderful moments
Review: Maybe it's something about the water in Annapolis, but I too thought Joanna Going was spectacular. Mary Tyler Moore was fun as a nasty mother, too.
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Summary: I don't get what the reviewers' problem is.
Review: Maybe the well-known people didn't amount to much, certainly Cameron Diaz's part wasn't much, though she did it well, but Joanna Going took my breath away. What's the matter with critics?
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Summary: BAD
Review: The only thing that makes this movie worth seeing is James Spader. He is really EXCELLENT! Very choppy shallow story line.
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Summary: don't buy it!
Review: the story is boring and stupid, the actors act very bad, except Cameron Diaz, but we only see her 5 minutes.
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Summary: Who Wants To Be Quentin Tarantino?
Review: This is another movie that seemed to suffer of the "Pulp Fiction" effect, as it pretty much relies on attitude, cool badass characters, stylish cinematography and edgy music to give mood. The story, however, isn`t that great, turning into an average betrayal plot that doesn`t bring nothing new or too memorable, and is a bit too slow. Some good moments still occur, though, and the acting is alright, with talents like Eric Stoltz, James Spader, Mary Tyler Moore and even a then unnoticed Cameron Diaz. So, "Keys To Tulsa" is a decent indie movie that`s neither too surprising nor too disappointing, another one to watch at a rainy night.
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