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Summary: Paradise indeed -- DVD or not
Review: This movie definitely has substance. The best movie not to get an Oscar nomination. Heroine use is so heavy you could add it to your pancake batter. This movie paints a grim portrait of middle America, in particular its crime network that you often don't think about, and DVD won't add any new or startling dimensions to this ultraviolent masterpiece. It'll just accentuate the lack of sugar coating in a world where paradise is always one day away.
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Summary: Underrated Gem
Review: This movie is one of the underrated gems of the year. I actually auditioned for one of the roles in this film, so I had to see it out of curiosity how the actor who got the part was. And I was really impressed. James Woods, who I've always liked, hams it up big time, and I mean that in a good way - the most enjoyable ham-job since Al Pacino's in Heat (another underrated movie). Also the kid is great (Vincent Kartheiser). This movie is authentic in its tone and has a striking mood to it. It's also not a studio picture but it has great production values. The ending is beautiful, too.
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Summary: Should have been a big hit!
Review: This movie is so fascinating and thrilling, I am disappointed it didn't become a big hit. Instead, it is probably going to be a cult favorite forever. Griffith and Woods are extraordinary -- they are the Bonnie and Clyde of druggies -- and they have such a dangerous chemistry together that is riveting. A really disturbing film -- not for the squeamish.
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Summary: I LOVED THIS MOVIE. JAMES WOODS RULEZ!!!!!!!!
Review: This movie was watched by me on account of director Larry Clark the most excellent director of KIDS. I loved the movie KIDS and I love this movie too. James Woods gave one hell of an AMAZING performance. I thought he couldent pull this role off the way he did because I saw Vampires a couple of months ago. This is one trashy, wild, sexy ride and its all realistic as h***. I loved it. One of the years top 20 best. Excellent film making Larry. You rule dude!!!!!!
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Summary: FASCINATING ACTING AT THE EDGE TO DISTURB/ENTERTAIN US
Review: Those who marvel at Olympic giant slalom skiing, or a virtuoso violinist or piamist playing at the edge of the instrument, or a race car driver leading the pack at the Indianapolis 500 ... or the Le Mans will be fascinated at what James Woods and Melanie Griffith put on screen in ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE. Having seen most of James Woods' films, and SALVADOR several times, I was on the edge of my seat watching Woods do what he does best: play a homocidal crook on the edge of an emotional explosion at each turn. Melanie Griffith is no slouch either in this movie where she is the gun Moll and lover of the man who she can barely live with and love. Then there are the two loser kids, superbly played by Vincent Kartheise and Natasha Gregson Wagner. "Adopting" the drugged out and oversexed young lovers, Griffith and Woods act as mentors in crime and surrogate parents as the "family" leaves a trail of blood in their violent trade. Definitely, this is not a movie for children or even adolescents. The graphic drug, sex and violent scenes are all necessary for realistically carrying the film through to its logical conclusion. The film is about a group of dysfunctional people whose life of crime is pursued in an almost tenderly family setting. The young people desperately need parenting, while the characters played by Griffith and Woods hover and brood over their "children" trying to teach them how to live in the river of crime that this "family" wades through. One of my favorite Woods scenes comes near the end in the car at a rural filling station. As everything in his life begins to unravel, Woods launches into such extreme paroxisms of rage and frustration that we the audience can feel, in his fit he's about to jump out of the screen and tear up our living room. That was a spectacular scene rivaling many of his legendary ones in SALVADOR. Some people may not be able to stand the vehicle filmmaker Larry Clark uses for dragging us through the grotesquely twisted criminalized lives of two young druggies and their murderous elders. The repeated use of extreme expletives by the characters is necessary because these are people who are verbally inarticulate, and "need" to express themselves with an intensity that moves them to use weapons for self expression. I think viewed this way, the film makes sense. Otherwise, it will burn your ears off, offend your eyes and you'll not wish to see and hear any of it. Melanie Griffith was very good but James Woods is absolutely great. Acting in a film of this genre cannot garner Academy Awards for those who made this movie. Nevertheless, ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE must be seen by fans of these gifted American actors.
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Summary: An strong unique drama.
Review: When a young teenage thief (Vincent Karthesier) also a Junkie with his attractive girlfriend (Natasha Gregson Wanger), after they meet a Married Drug Dealers Couple (James Woods & Melaine Griffith), the four teamed together as selling drugs and they go also on a Road Trip on Business, but when a drug deal goes bad, Friendship of the four gets complicated between the young couple. Directed by Larry Clark (Kids, Bully) bring a film about lost souls and a escape from Redemption. Strong performances by the Cast. Lou Diamond Phillips appear Unbilled as a Gay Crime Lord. Grade:B+.
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Summary: This movie is intense, a must see for any James Woods fan!
Review: When I first heard about this film, is when I saw the trailor,then I knew this movie was going to be good. It starts out with the main character, a 16 year old boy, robbing a Junior Colleges vending machines. He picks up a couple hundred bucks, in quarters. Just when he thinks he's got it all under control an insane security gaurd busts in. A brawl insues and the boy gets away, only after stabbing the gaurd in the chest with a screwdriver. He stumbles back to his friends, blood all over his shirt and jacket. He falls into the apartment where his girlfriend is also crashed. She screams and they hook up with James Woods character who is sort of a doctor. He fixes him up pretty well, only after injecting him with several needles full of heroine. The movie only gets crazier after that!Melanie Griffith is James Woods girl and they take the boy and his girlfriend on a road trip you'll never forget!
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Summary: Eh.
Review: Woods and Griffith (but mostly Woods) give great performances, but in the end, this movie goes nowhere. I left it feeling like I hadn't just watched a feature-length film, but maybe a poorly constructed episode of NYPD blue. With just a little more cursing. I'm not the type who minds excessive language, sex, or violence, but there must be a PURPOSE behind it. I'm sorry, but I just didn't see it.
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Summary: Ho-hum... another Larry Clark something-or-other
Review: Yeah, yeah, great performances all the way around...how could you miss with such a great cast? But one-hit-wonder director Larry "Kids" Clark proves with his pedestrian direction that he's got nothing interesting to say. Feelings of deja vu saturate this film. You've seen it all before. If anything, Clark proves that being an indie filmmaker is no guarantee of talent.
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