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The Underneath
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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

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 1,448
...Alison Elliott is pitch perfect in conveying the mystery behind her character...
New York Times
Apr 28, 1995
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. Full Review
Los Angeles Times
Feb 13, 2001
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. Full Review
Washington Post
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: 3/4 -- A departure from the run-of- the-mill thriller. Full Review
ReelViews
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: B+ -- Stylish, arty and quite enjoyable. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Sep 13, 2011
Rating: 3/4 -- Pulp Fiction fresh. Full Review
Chicago Tribune
Aug 16, 2017
...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
May 12, 1995

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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