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In the Cut (2003)

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Reviews Counted: 142 Fresh: 47  Rotten:95 Average Rating: 4.7/10
 
Consensus: Ryan is very good playing against type, but Campion's good-looking thriller is far from thrilling.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 59 mins

Theatrical Release: Oct 22, 2003 Limited

Box Office: $4,717,455

Synopsis: The acclaimed New Zealand director Jane Campion (THE PIANO) turns her unusual artistic eye toward the urban erotic thriller genre. Based on the novel by Susanna Moore, IN THE CUT tells the story of Frannie (Meg Ryan) an English teacher living in Manhattan's East Village who finds herself... The acclaimed New Zealand director Jane Campion (THE PIANO) turns her unusual artistic eye toward the urban erotic thriller genre. Based on the novel by Susanna Moore, IN THE CUT tells the story of Frannie (Meg Ryan) an English teacher living in Manhattan's East Village who finds herself mixed up in a homicide investigation after a severed head turns up in her garden. Jennifer Jason Leigh is her sexually unhinged half-sister and Mark Ruffalo plays a homicide detective who falls into bed with Frannie after she's attacked on the Lower East Side. Suspects include her stalker ex-lover (Kevin Bacon) and a troubled student (Sharrieff Pugh) who's obsessed with serial killer John Wayne Gacy. As the body count rises however, Frannie realizes that the prime suspect just may be the very cop in her bed. If this all sounds like a by-the-numbers sex crime thriller don't worry; Campion twists the genre towards her own ends, adding multi-layered focus, deeply saturated colors, a dream-like mood and copious amounts of feminist allegorical symbolism. Meg Ryan fans should be shocked by her performance here (replete with several nude scenes), which is a major departure from her usual cute characterizations. Nicole Kidman, who starred in Campion's PORTRAIT OF A LADY served as producer. Fans of that film, and Campion's work in general, should enjoy the perverse psychosexual theatrics on display in this grim urban fairy tale. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sharrieff Pugh

Director: Jane Campion
Screenwriter: Jane Campion, Susanna Moore
Producer: Nicole Kidman, Laurie Parker
Composer: Hilmar örn Hilmarsson

DVD Info

Release:

Feb 10, 2004

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentary - 1. Jane Campion - Director
  • Trailers
  • Featurettes - 1. Making Of
  • 2. SLANG DICTIONARY

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Should a movie be penalized for failing to be something it never tried or aspired to be? Perhaps the marketing is to blame, or the hype surrounding Meg Ryan's nudity.

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Like a long-lost relic from an earlier period best forgotten.

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05/04/05
Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness
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... a curious mistake rather than a disaster

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01/27/05
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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10/07/04
Tony Medley
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08/07/04
Peter Rainer
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...would've been a whole lot better if it had been about 30 minutes shorter, but as it is, it's a barely passable thriller.

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06/27/04
David Nusair
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Too self-consciously arty and irregularly paced.

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06/20/04
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
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É uma pena constatar que, afinal de contas, Meg Ryan tirou a roupa por um filme que, ironicamente, também se encontra despido. Neste caso, de méritos artísticos.

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04/17/04
Pablo Villaca
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A flaccid thriller as lifeless as the film’s many decapitated corpses.

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04/15/04
Kent Turner
Film-Forward.com
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Interesting throughout with an intriguing female slant not seen in most steamy psycho-thrillers.

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03/01/04
Mark Robison
Reno Gazette-Journal
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The movie builds slowly, slowly, slowly, towards a truly stupid climax

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02/28/04
Austin O'Connor
Lowell Sun
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The impression left is that one can turn a serial-killer movie into a pretentious art-house film, but why would you want to?

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02/13/04
Lori Hoffman
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01/15/04
Guardian [UK]
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It's an experiment that's only partially successful. As a character study, In the Cut is sublime; as a murder mystery, however, the film is slightly ridiculous.

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01/15/04
Kim Linekin
eye WEEKLY
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Jane Campion, best known for the ugly and overrated The Piano, has tried her hand at a mainstream film.

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01/01/04
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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