Hurlyburly (1998)
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Reviews Counted: 35
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 14
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Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 4
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David Rabe's popular play of Hollywood immorality and decadence is brought to the big screen by director Anthony Drazan and an all-star cast that includes Sean Penn, Robin Wright-Penn, Kevin Spacey, Meg Ryan, Chazz Palminteri, Garry Shandling, and Anna Paquin. The film is set in the Hollywood Hills and tells the story of Eddie (Penn) a drinking-smoking-snorting-womanizing casting director and his philandering partner-roommate Mickey (Spacey). Along with their buddies Artie and Phil, they sit
Dec 25, 1998 Wide
Jun 22, 1999
New Line Home Entertainment
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Sean Penn
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Kevin Spacey
Mickey -
Robin Wright
Darlene -
Chazz Palminteri
Phil -
Garry Shandling
Artie -
Anna Paquin
Donna -
Meg Ryan
Bonnie
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Rabe has streamlined the dialogue, sacrificing a lot of funny throwaway lines without lessening the script's burden on our patience.
This black alleged comedy wouldn't be funny at all if it weren't for Kevin Spacey's droll wit and silly bleach do. Sean Penn's self-indulgent performance and the unfocused script make sitting through Hurlyburly a chore.
Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. Seldom has a film betrayed its stage origins more than Hurlyburly.
Depicts hedeonism as a grim exercise in cynicism, betrayal and emptiness.
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