The Unbelievable Truth (Blu-ray) R
Can a nice girl from Long Island find happiness with a mass murderer?
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 14, 2013
- Originally Released: 1989
- Label: Olive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Robert John Burke & Adrienne Shelly | |
| Performer: | Christopher Cooke, Jeffrey Howard & Edie Falco | |
| Directed by | Hal Hartley | |
| Screenwriting by | Hal Hartley | |
| Produced by | Jerome Brownstein & Hal Hartley | |
| Director of Photography: | Michael Spiller |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 3/4 --
What makes the film fun is the deadpan, tongue-in-cheek humor that undermines the seemingly sincere dramatic scenes.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Hartley's determination to skew convention at every turn remains diverting.
Sight and Sound
...It's fresh and actually gets somewhere....Hartley reveals a serious concern for how people tend to look at relationship as if they were business deals and how alienating the results are...
Los Angeles Times
...[A] wildly hilarious black comedy....[Hartley] combines a rigorous social conscience with the exuberance of fresh comic thinking...
Rolling Stone
THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH was still like nothing else at the time, an offbeat relationship study with dialogue pitched somewhere between Jim Jarmusch deadpan and the rhythms of a Samuel Beckett play.
A.V. Club
...Arch....All the offbeat appeal of its strange characters...
New York Times
Rating: 4/5 --
In this lyrically offbeat fable, Hartley, the most Godardian of American indies, takes the audience to familiar-looking yet utterly strange places, like working class Long Island, where his bizarrely charming romance takes place; still his best film.
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Product Description:
In Hal Hartley's first feature film, THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH, Josh (Robert Burke), a criminal who has just been released from prison, returns home to Lindenhurst, Long Island. There he's hired as a mechanic by Vic Hugo (Christopher Cooke), the owner of a local garage. Through a mutual interest in George Washington, Josh falls in love with Vic's daughter, Audry (Adrienne Shelly). However, their romance proves to be difficult due to Audry's possessive ex-boyfriend and the mystery surrounding Josh's past.
THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH effectively establishes Hartley's unique aesthetic, which is darkly humorous, oddly clever, and subtly meditative. Rather than merely hint at their thoughts, the characters in this film (and other Hartley films) tend to speak exactly what they're thinking, openly expressing things often left unsaid. A quirky take on the romantic comedy, this is the debut of a highly original American filmmaker.
THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH effectively establishes Hartley's unique aesthetic, which is darkly humorous, oddly clever, and subtly meditative. Rather than merely hint at their thoughts, the characters in this film (and other Hartley films) tend to speak exactly what they're thinking, openly expressing things often left unsaid. A quirky take on the romantic comedy, this is the debut of a highly original American filmmaker.
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- Sales Rank: 78,720
- UPC: 887090060400
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