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Hurlyburly (1998)

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Average Rating: 5.9/10
Reviews Counted: 34
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 14

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33

Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 4

No consensus yet.

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56

liked it
Average Rating: 3.2/5
User Ratings: 5,715

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Movie Info

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

R, 2 hr. 30 min.

Drama

Jun 22, 1999

New Line Home Entertainment

Cast

All Critics (58) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (15) | DVD (12)

Rabe has streamlined the dialogue, sacrificing a lot of funny throwaway lines without lessening the script's burden on our patience.

September 24, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

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.

August 11, 2003 Comment
AboutFilm.com

Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. Seldom has a film betrayed its stage origins more than Hurlyburly.

April 20, 2002 Comment
Movie Metropolis

Depicts hedeonism as a grim exercise in cynicism, betrayal and emptiness.

March 2, 2002 Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | Comment
Spirituality and Practice
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Audience Reviews for Hurlyburly

A great movie with incredible characterization.

November 20, 2006
mjgildea

Super Reviewer

Self-indulgent b.s. Spacey proves he can talk a million-miles-a-minute about a whole lot of nothing.

December 13, 2009
streamofconsciousness

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