Novocaine R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 23, 2002
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Helena Bonham Carter, Laura Dern & Steve Martin | |
Performer: | Kevin Bacon, Elias Koteas & Scott Caan | |
Directed by | David Atkins | |
Screenwriting by | David Atkins | |
Composition by | Danny Elfman & Steve Bartek | |
Art Direction by | Craig Jackson | |
Produced by | Paul Mones & Daniel M. Rosenberg | |
Director of Photography: | Vilko Filac | |
Executive Production by | Michele Weisler |
Entertainment Reviews:
Plays like the sort of silly shared fantasy that a group of dental students might come up with late one night, after too much coffee and cramming for finals.
Orlando Sentinel
...Kevin Bacon has a fun cameo....Ms. Dern is a terrifying tornado of smiley, obsessive-compulsive femininity...
New York Times
...Martin was a wise casting choice....Underlying that non-threatening exterior one senses the presence of a more complex personality....Martin does a capable job...
USA Today
This movie was not effective.
Ebert & Roeper
To say this is black comedy is to understate the case, but the fun parts really are a hoot.
Full Review
San Diego Metropolitan
Rating: 1/5 --
A coarse, witless and stunningly violent black comedy.
Washington Post
...Funny, and ingenious in the way it sets up its surprises...
Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
Screenwriter David Atkins (ARIZONA DREAM) makes his directorial debut with the black comedy NOVOCAINE. Frank Sangster (Steve Martin), a nice-guy dentist with a thriving practice, shares his perfectly ordered, successful life with his cheerily plastic hygienist-fiancée, Jean (Laura Dern). Frank's structured world is suddenly flipped upside down when his good-for-nothing brother, Harlan (Elias Koteas), comes to town and a dangerously attractive drug-seeking patient, Susan (Helena Bonham-Carter), shows up in his office. When Susan absconds with the office's narcotics supply, Frank is too smitten by her bad-girl beauty to turn her into the DEA. Instead, he constructs a web of lies, carelessly jeopardizing his practice and future marriage, just to see the femme fatale again. Frank's troubles multiply when Susan's violent junkie brother, Duane (Scott Caan), discovers the budding dentist-patient relationship and Susan wishes aloud that Duane would just "disappear."
Atkins' absurdist take on the time-honored conventions of film noir features strong performances, particularly from Dern as the intensely chipper Jean, and from Kevin Bacon in a wry cameo. The gruesome finale can take its place alongside MARATHON MAN in the annals of cinematic dental horror.
Atkins' absurdist take on the time-honored conventions of film noir features strong performances, particularly from Dern as the intensely chipper Jean, and from Kevin Bacon in a wry cameo. The gruesome finale can take its place alongside MARATHON MAN in the annals of cinematic dental horror.
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