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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780626119
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780626117
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 27, 1999
Running Time: 122 minutes
Sales Rank: 17797
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 1998
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
You wouldn't want to spend much time with the folks from David Rabe's play Hurlyburly. A sensation when it played on stage (with marquee names Harvey Keitel and William Hurt), Rabe's tale of the cocaine-influenced days of Hollywood in the 1980s is a bitter rambling of what humans do with too much drive, power, and money. Robin Williams's joke about cocaine being God's way of telling you have too much money certainly comes into play here. A few days in the life of casting agent Eddie (Sean Penn) and his friends (separated by a year) take place in Eddie's posh L.A. bungalow. Here he and his roomie Mickey (Kevin Spacey) talk nonstop about sex and power, syntax and meaning. Into this wash comes a charitable bigwig (Gary Shandling), a street kid (Anna Paquin), and Eddie's rudderless friend, the violent Phil (Chazz Palminteri). If there is a central story to be found, it's Eddie's drive to fall in love with Darlene (Robin Wright Penn), who finds this world exciting--or at least intoxicating.
This is not the bunch to invite over to your house, and many might even want to skip the two-hour film with its talky, pathetic prose. These characters would probably be despicable even if they weren't addicted to some narcotic. And the talk is endless; conversations that finish with a door slam are taken up moments later on the cell phone (a nice updating touch by Rabe). What draws big-name actors to Rabe's work is the chance to work on one's raw acting talent. Penn and Palminteri fit their roles like gloves, and Spacey again proves he is one of the most watchable actors around. Every nuance, bad pun, and irrelevant slip of Spacey's wicked tongue has a brutal kind of poetry here in a film that can be admired but not loved. --Doug Thomas
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - BEST REASON NOT TO DO COCAINE...
THIS MOVIE IS REALISTIC THE ACTING IS GOOD BUT, THESE ARE SOME REALLY MESSED UP PEOPLE. IT'S LIKE WATCHING A TRAIN CRASH YA WANT TO LOOK AWAY BUT, YOU ARE KIND OF RIVETED AND YA JUST HAVE TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS TO THESE IDIOTS...
Rating:  - Movie For Analytical People with OCD/Addiction/Narcissism Issues
I guess I can understand why people don't like this movie. It can seen as pointless and depressing. However, obviously, I have a different opinion. This is actually one of my favorite movies. I've studied addiction psychology (in class and in life), and I am going for a double major in psychology and philosophy. A lot of people think philosophy is pointless and boring, but someone like myself finds it to be a fabulous subject into which one can invest oneself. So, that having been said, I think people ... Read More
Rating:  - Nose Dive to Oblivion
When David Rabe's play "Hurlyburly" opened on Broadway in August 1984, it was directed by Mike Nichols. It ran for 343 performances -- a long Broadway run -- and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. William Hurt was nominated for Best Actor in his role as Eddie. Judith Ivey who recently appeared in the Clint Eastwood film "Flags of our Fathers" won the Tony as Featured Actress in a play. The rest of the cast included Harvey Keitel as Phil, Cynthia Nixon as Donna, Ron Silver as Mickey, Jerry ... Read More
Rating:  - A Swill Time Was Had By All
David Rabe, author of the play upon which this temple of twaddle was built, cannot blame the film's sins on others, he also did the screen adaptation. Considering the exemplary cast, he and director Anthony Drazen must assume the magnitude of guilt in its entirety.
Plays that adapt well to film have compelling characters, shifting relationships, well-hewn plots that offer surprises, and sparkling dialogue. Good actors love them because they provide opportunities to hone their craft. In Hurlyburly, ... Read More
Rating: - Striking and mesmerizing !
Among the impressive amount of good scripts written by Mamet there is a handful of them that remain above the mainstream average, such as House of games, The things change, The Spanish prisoner, Homicide, Oleanna, Heist but certainly none has been so devastating, brutal and existentialist like this one.
The lack of redemption, the ethical deficit, the absolute certainness nobody is absolutely innocent, invites us to think about Arhur Miller, Samuel Beckett and Luigi Pirandello, obstinate personages ... Read More
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