The Grifters (Blu-ray) R
Seduction. Betrayal. Murder. Who’s conning who?
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 3, 2015
- Originally Released: 1990
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Anjelica Huston, Annette Bening & John Cusack | |
Performer: | Stephen Tobolowsky, Michael Laskin, Eddie Jones, Sandy Baron, Lou Hancock, Gailard Sartain, Pat Hingle, Jeremy Piven, Charles Napier, J.T. Walsh, Frances Bay, Xander Berkeley & Juliet Landau | |
Directed by | Stephen Frears | |
Edited by | Mick Audsley | |
Composition by | Elmer Bernstein | |
Story by | Jim Thompson | |
Produced by | Martin Scorsese, Robert A. Harris & Jim Painter | |
Director of Photography: | Oliver Stapleton |
Entertainment Reviews:
...Bening and Cusack are perfection at what they are doing, she twinkly as a rhinestone, he dangerously passive....[Frears] has an entire movie in which to play with our nerves, and in a masterful display of control, he never lets up...
Los Angeles Times
4 stars out of 5 -- [A] stylishly retro adap of one of the author's most representative works....With its coldly amoral nihilism intact.
Total Film
Donald Westlake's excellent screenplay does some justice to the starkness of Jim Thompson's novel; and Frears' direction never fails to grab the attention.
Time Out
These doomed grifters deserve instant admission into the film noir pantheon.
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Newsweek
Cusack underplays Roy, making him an unbelievable wiseguy, a colorless cipher too akin to the saps he loves to fleece.
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Variety
Rating: A --
British helmer Frears makes auspicious American debut with this light, speedy, perfectly executed noir, based on Jim Thompson's novel, boasting three terrific performances; one of the best films of the year
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EmanuelLevy.Com
A slick and stylish neo-noir crime drama featuring three exceptional performances.
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Product Description:
THE GRIFTERS is an intense character study of a group of people caught up in a world where nobody can be trusted. Stephen Frears presents this cool and brutal adaptation of Jim Thompson's stylish noir novel, which centers on the complex lives of three con artists. Shady Roy Dillon (John Cusack), a low-level Los Angeles con man and petty thief, and Roy's sexy, amoral girlfriend Myra (Annette Bening), a con artist who is down on her luck and willing to do whatever it takes to get back on top of her game; are the focal point of the action. Rounding out the trio is Roy's mother, Lilly (Angelica Huston), a veteran con artist who shares little with Roy other than a bizarre oedipal attraction. The seedy underbelly of LA life is played out in evocative tableaux, as Myra and Lilly compete for Roy's attention until they ultimately drive him away.