The Canyons R
It's not the hills.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 26, 2013
- Originally Released: 2013
- Label: IFC Independent Film
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Lindsay Lohan & James Deen | |
Performer: | Nolan Funk, Amanda Brooks & Gus Van Sant | |
Directed by | Paul Schrader | |
Screenwriting by | Bret Easton Ellis | |
Produced by | Braxton Pope |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/5 --
A boring failure, for the most un-thrilling reasons imaginable: the characters don't ring true, the dialogue is heinous, and most of the cast can't act.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Rating: 1.5/5 --
Two problems that plague too many films labelled as erotic thrillers cling to this work: It is neither erotic nor much of a thriller.
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The Straits Times (Singapore)
Rating: 1.5/5 --
It would be too easy to blame the leads for the film's flatness, but I'm not sure that better actors could have roused such listless dialogue.
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Dear Cast and Crew
Rating: 2/5 --
On paper, the ingredients for an intriguing combo of life-art crossover, artistic schadenfreude and nihilist gloss. But lord, it's cheap and weak.
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Total Film
Rating: 2/5 --
With the pungent combination of a script from novelist Bret Easton Ellis, a performance by Lindsay Lohan and direction by Paul Schrader, The Canyons might have been a micro-budget sensation, but sadly it reeks of laziness.
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Times (UK)
It believes it's taking risks it actually has no interest in taking, that it's seeing profundity in the showbiz shallows.
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Grantland
Ellis throws in lots of references to social media in a desperate bid for cultural currency, while Schrader intersperses the drama with pretentious shots of boarded-up movie theaters to suggest this is all a metaphor for the death of cinema.
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Chicago Reader
Product Description:
A spoiled L.A. trust-fund kid discovers that his actress girlfriend is having a fling with her ex-flame, and subjects them both to a series of twisted mind games that spiral out of control in this erotically charged neo-noir thriller from director Paul Schrader and writer Bret Easton Ellis. In order to keep his trust fund intact and his influential father out of his business, bored rich kid Christian (real-life porn star James Deen) finances an independent horror film, with his assistant Gina (Amanda Brooks) serving as producer. Christian's girlfriend Tara (Lindsay Lohan), a former aspiring actress, is assisting with casting duties when her former boyfriend Ryan (Nolan Funk) emerges as the frontrunner to star in the film. At first Christian and Gina fail to recognize the romantic spark between Tara and Ryan -- the lusty remnants of a passionate fling from three years ago. But eventually, sleuthing Christian rightly discerns that Tara has taken him for a fool, and that the two former lovers are conducting an affair right under his nose. Driven by an insatiable thirst for vengeance, controlling Christian soon begins subconsciously tormenting them both until the psychological suffering becomes too great to bear, and the situation erupts into violence. Gus Van Sant co-stars.
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