Carried Away is erotic, but it's also thoughtful and intelligent, and, coupled with Hopper's extraordinary performance, that's reason enough to be carried away by this motion picture.
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01/01/00
Carried Away (1996)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:14
Rotten:7
Average Rating:6.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Joseph, a teacher and farmer in a small Midwestern town, is in the midst of a full-fledged mid-life crisis. On one hand, there's his long-time girlfriend, Rosealee. She wants Joseph to come to a... [More]
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Amy Irving, Amy Locane, Gary Busey
Director: Bruno Barreto
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Reviews for Carried Away
Top CriticUsusual drama about personal transformation starring Dennis Hopper.
08/26/02
Director Barreto has a fine eye for composition and a knowing heart for human emotion, keeping things simple and sparse.
05/11/03
Everyone in the film -- even the teenager -- is more intelligent and articulate than is usually permitted in American movies, and having gotten themselves into an emotional tangle, they go to work getting themselves out again.
01/01/00
Top CriticThis is an unusually sensual and nonpuritanical American movie perhaps because it was made by a Brazilian director.
01/28/02
Think Dennis Hopper has played too many crazies? Well, you'll wish he'd stuck to blowing up buses after you see him in Carried Away.
01/01/00
Top CriticAn earnestly well-meaning film whose adult characters have a refreshingly grown-up perspective on their choices in life.
05/20/03
Top CriticThe performances are captivating, so much so that the film's sometimes slow pace is never a real problem.
05/11/03
I wasn't carried away with this Lolita like cautionary tale, but I was impressed enough by its intelligent presentation.
01/24/09
Tries to incorporate almost film-noir elements into a heartland love story. The blending feels inorganic; and composer Bruce Broughton doesn't help matters by coating every moment with a repetitive, syrupy theme.
08/02/06
Top CriticA very dry and formulaic re-telling of a cautionary tale we know all too well by now.
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