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Shallow Grave (1995)
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Reviews Counted:9
Fresh:4
Rotten:5
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: This black-humored thriller features characters who are more obnoxious than clever. During the second half, the movie descends into gratuitous violence.
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: After three Edinburgh roommates (Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, and Kerry Fox) finally choose a new roommate they can live with, they find him dead on the floor with a suitcase full of cash.... After three Edinburgh roommates (Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, and Kerry Fox) finally choose a new roommate they can live with, they find him dead on the floor with a suitcase full of cash. While trying to remove the body and extricate themselves from the situation, they wade hip-deep into a world of drugs, greed, and madness. Danny Boyle's first feature film is a delightfully circuitous, nail-biting, and unpretentious noir, with the director--and screenwriter John Hodge--focusing on the gradual psychological disintegration of the roommates. Boyle and Hodge would gain even greater acclaim across the Atlantic with their hit follow-up, TRAINSPOTTING. Eccleston would go on to appear in films such as ELIZABETH and THE OTHERS. McGregor, of course, would become Rent Boy and eventually Obi-Wan Kenobi, among many other screen roles. [More]
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, Kerry Fox, Ken Stott
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, Kerry Fox, Ken Stott, Keith Allen
Director: Danny Boyle
Director: Danny Boyle
Screenwriter: John Hodge
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Reviews for Shallow Grave
Class has its place, but some of us prefer our cut-'em-ups a little more lowdown.
Fox, McGregor and Eccleston merely mill around the screen like the kind of living-dead folks we usually see rising from the grave.
A tight little thriller, filled with exhilarating twists, that quickly establishes its artistic contract with the audience.
[The characters] become less and less interesting as the movie progresses.
A reasonably enjoyable (for those captivated by this sort of thing) black comedy/noir thriller.
The situation is contrived, the relationships unlikely, the characters one-dimensional.
Since no reasonable person can remotely hope to identity with Juliet, David or Alex, the whole case drops through.
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