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Treasure Island (1999)

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Reviews Counted:12

Fresh:4

Rotten:8

Average Rating:4.7/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 84 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Frank (Lance Baker) and Samuel (Nick Offerman) are government employees working in a secret base in Northern California in 1945. World War II is in full swing, and the body of an unidentified... Frank (Lance Baker) and Samuel (Nick Offerman) are government employees working in a secret base in Northern California in 1945. World War II is in full swing, and the body of an unidentified American has been discovered by the military. Frank and Samuel are assigned to establish a false identity for the corpse that will include bogus documents to be attached to the body, which will then be dumped into the Pacific in hope that the Japanese will find it. Samuel is married and repeatedly brings home strange men to have sex with his wife. Frank has two wives as well as a Japanese mistress who must remain in hiding. The corpse, who reveals himself to be a young gay man with a healthy sex drive, seems to pop up at inopportune times, catching both quiet Frank and boisterous, macho Samuel off guard. But is the corpse really alive, or is it just attempting to teach the living men about their true selves? Cryptic dialogue and unanswered questions fuel the film until V-J Day brings it to an even more chaotic conclusion. [More]

Starring: Lance Baker, Nick Offerman, Jonah Blechman, Pat Healy

Starring: Lance Baker, Nick Offerman, Jonah Blechman, Pat Healy, Rachel Singer, Stephanie Ittelson, Daisy Hall, Caveh Zahedi, Guinevere Turner

Director: Scott King

Director: Scott King
Screenwriter: Scott King
Producer: Adrienne Gruben
Composer: Chris Anderson

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Jan 30, 2001

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  • The closing days of WWII. Treasure Island is a secret naval institution in San Francisco where intelligence experts censor all mail--seeking out hidden messages coded into birthday cards and love letters. Two such cryptographers, Frank and Sam, concoct a plan to outfit a dead body with falsified letters, to be dumped into the ocean as a wartime decoy--his letters containing coded misinformation to mislead the enemy. This much, at least, is true. But in "Treasure Island," communication is a zero-sum game: for every truth revealed, some other knowledge is taken away. The more one knows, the less one understands. All Day Entertainment is proud to present this critically-lauded, audacious motion picture in this deluxe special edition DVD, prepared by filmmaker Scott King himself. 1999 Winner of the Sundance Jury prize!
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    Marjorie Baumgarten
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    Linda Cook
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    06/05/02
    Ray Greene
    Ray Greene
    Boxoffice Magazine

    ...all of the bad things that make up what we call 'independent film.'

    Full Review Source: culturevulture.net | comment Comment
    09/18/01
    Tom Block
    Tom Block
    culturevulture.net

    No matter how bright many of its ideas may be, however, Treasure Island is far from satisfying, as such matters as narrative coherence and dramatic credibility have been treated as annoyances worthy of being ignored.

    Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
    02/14/01
    Todd McCarthy
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    Variety
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    There is a dreamlike logic at work here, but viewers are expected to put the pieces together themselves.

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    01/01/00
    Bob Graham
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    Ought to bypass the theaters entirely and go straight to cult status, joining the likes of Night of the Living Dead and Plan 9 From Outer Space.

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    01/01/00
    Edvins Beitiks
    Edvins Beitiks
    San Francisco Examiner

    You may not like Treasure Island when you see it, but what you can't dismiss is that it's definitely not commercial.

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    Max Messier
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    Climaxing with images shanghaied from Ugetsu and Dr. Strangelove, Treasure Island can be thin and underrealized.

    Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
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    Michael Atkinson
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    Though it will surely confound mainstream audiences, it should prove something of a treasure for viewers prepared for a provocative and idiosyncratic work.

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    01/01/00
    Mike Gregory
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    Reel.com

    For all the ideas it tosses around -- and many of them are useful and painful correctives to our rose-colored fantasies -- Treasure Island is too crude a movie to muster much rhetorical clout.

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    Stephen Holden
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