2 Days in the Valley (1996)
Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 53
Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 21
A labyrinthine thriller with a host of memorable characters, 2 Days in the Valley is an uneven but intriguing thriller/black comedy.
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 4
A labyrinthine thriller with a host of memorable characters, 2 Days in the Valley is an uneven but intriguing thriller/black comedy.
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Movie Info
A variety of crooks, losers, and working stiffs living in the shadow of Hollywood find their various personal crises overlapping in this intricately woven melodrama. Lee Woods (James Spader) is a cold-blooded hit man and Dosmo Pizzo (Danny Aiello) a soft-at-heart gangster; they've been sent to murder Roy Foxx (Peter Horton), the former husband of also-ran Olympic skier Becky Foxx (Teri Hatcher). Lee's girlfriend Helga (Charlize Theron) is unhappy about his habit of killing people, and she
Sep 27, 1996 Wide
Aug 7, 2001
HBO Video
Cast
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Danny Aiello
Dosmo Pizzo -
Greg Cruttwell
HopperAllan -
Jeff Daniels
Alvin Strayer -
James Spader
Lee Woods -
Teri Hatcher
Becky Foxx -
Charlize Theron
Helga Svelgen -
Glenne Headly
Susan Parish -
Peter Horton
Roy Foxx -
Eric Stoltz
Wes Taylor -
Paul Mazursky
Teddy Peppers -
Louise Fletcher
Evelyn -
Marsha Mason
Audrey Hopper -
Keith Carradine
Detective Creighton -
Austin Pendleton
Ralph Crupi -
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Mark Goldstein
Marc the Pitbull -
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Micole Mercurio
Older Woman -
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Lawrence Tierney
Old Man -
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Michael Jai White
Buck -
Kathleen Luong
Midori -
Cress Williams
Golfer -
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Deborah Benson-Wald
Driver's Friend -
Coby
Bogey A Dog -
Ada Maris
Detective Valenzuela -
William Stanton
Man At Bar -
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All Critics (55) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (32) | Rotten (21) | DVD (4)
To the director's credit, the actors all seem responsive to his touch, giving performances that are lively and flavorsome, if not deep or unlike anything each of them has done before.
Herzfeld has a tolerable eye for filling a 'Scope frame but a tin ear when it comes to creating dialogue; these are all characters we've met before, and most even seem bored with themselves.
Smoothly constructed, for such a busy piece of work, and Hatcher's ascent to stardom continues.
Top CriticA sleek, amusingly nasty screen debut by a film maker whose television credits include an Amy Fisher docudrama.
Funny, pathetic, sad, absurdist -- writer-director John Herzfeld plays it any number of ways, and makes them all work.
There are too many characters, but some are a lot of fun. The tone shifts, from graphic murder to wig-flipping farce, are too extreme, but much of it works.
A sharp, smart movie peppered with A-grade performances from its B-list cast.
It's not that this is a bad, blackly comic slice-of-lowlife: It's just that you've just seen it all before.
A quirky, multi-character collage that skillfully keeps you off balance, not knowing where it's headed.
One constant is its lovely cinematography. Another is its utter insignificance.
When the highlight of your movie is a catfight between Teri Hatcher and Charlize Theron...well, it's not necessarily a bad thing, but it couldve been better
Charlize Theron is super-sexy, and devilishy memorable
an intelligent thriller - a nice surprise
This smart movie never seemed smart.
Closer to straightforward drama than black comedy.
Among the many lacking Pulp Fiction carbon copies that refuses to realize its surrealistic shortcomings. An exaggerated and aimless mess starving for attention
Like its protagonists, it misses the target by inches.
An ensemble-cast mishmash of crime and betrayal that manages to work.
This movie isn't bad for mere entertainment, but it's overshadowed by other, better movies in the same genre.
Herzfeld's marriage of dark humor with graphic violence isn't compatible, and his occasional moral statements about cheapened life stick out like sore thumbs.
A somewhat entertaining ride to nowhere in particular.
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