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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 17, 1998
- Originally Released: 1994
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Peter Gallagher & Alison Elliott | |
Performer: | Elisabeth Shue, Joe Don Baker, Shelley Duvall, William Fichtner, Adam Trese & Paul Dooley | |
Directed by | Steven Soderbergh | |
Edited by | Stan Salfas | |
Screenplay by | Steven Soderbergh & Daniel Fuchs | |
Composition by | Cliff Martinez | |
Produced by | John Hardy | |
Director of Photography: | Elliot Davis | |
Executive Production by | Joshua Donen, William Reid & Lionel Wigram |
Entertainment Reviews:
...Alison Elliott is pitch perfect in conveying the mystery behind her character...
New York Times
Rating: 2/5 --
What The Underneath lacks is the kind of emotional connection that the best film noirs have. Instead of involving, this film is distancing, too given to admiring its own shiny surface.
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Los Angeles Times
Downbeat, laconically funny, arty (maybe a touch too arty), it's simmering, smoldering lowlife fun, like a good episode of Twin Peaks without the self-conscious weirdness.
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Washington Post
Rating: 3/4 --
A departure from the run-of- the-mill thriller.
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ReelViews
Rating: B+ --
Stylish, arty and quite enjoyable.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 3/4 --
Pulp Fiction fresh.
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Chicago Tribune
...Gallagher gets deep inside this gambler's rotten, addictive core....[Soderbergh] has made that rare thing, a modern-day noir with feeling. -- Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly
Product Description:
With this cerebral remake of the 1949 film noir gem CRISS CROSS, director Steven Soderbergh has renounced melodrama and suspense to instead create an art film with the emotional weight of Greek tragedy. The film weaves three time frames together to tell its story. In the present, Michael Chambers (Peter Gallagher) returns to Austin, Texas, for his mother's wedding. In the past, he flees town to escape an outrageous gambling debt, ditching his girlfriend, Rachel (Alison Elliott), in the process. And in the future, when Rachel's new boyfriend, Tommy (William Fichtner), a dangerous club owner, catches them having an affair, Michael comes up with a plan for Tommy to rob the armored car he drives. Soderbergh handles his material so deftly that the viewer is left to question whether it is fate or personal responsibility that drove the characters to their ends. Cinematographer Elliot Davis shoots each section with a distinct look in order to further distinguish the film's three chapters, giving the film a visual aesthetic that is overtly stylish and moody. As the flighty Michael, Gallagher is an attractive--and surprisingly comical--presence. His interactions with the rest of the cast (most notably, Elliott) are at turns hysterical, dramatic, and suspenseful.
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- Sales Rank: 33,909
- UPC: 025192044526
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