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Sunset (1988)

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Reviews Counted: 12

Fresh: 2

Rotten:10

Average Rating: 3.7/10

Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Gunslinging lawman Wyatt Earp meets cowboy star Tom Mix on a film set in Hollywood, circa 1929. This film-within-a-film farce has the Mix playing the famous marshal in one of the first Western... Gunslinging lawman Wyatt Earp meets cowboy star Tom Mix on a film set in Hollywood, circa 1929. This film-within-a-film farce has the Mix playing the famous marshal in one of the first Western talkies with Earp on hand for technical advice. Meanwhile both men team up to solve a mystery involving the murder of a notorious madam. [More]

Starring: Bruce Willis, James Garner, Mariel Hemingway, Kathleen Quinlan

Starring: Bruce Willis, James Garner, Mariel Hemingway, Kathleen Quinlan, Jennifer Edwards, Malcolm McDowell, Dermot Mulroney

Director: Blake Edwards

Director: Blake Edwards

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Geoff Andrew
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One of the biggest flops of 1988, Blake Edwards' Sunset is highly uneven, but gorgeous period production values and the easy-going charm of Garner and Willis save it.

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03/04/06
Chuck O'Leary
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Garner's a great Earp (see "Hour of the Gun") but this witless movie trashes not one but two great Western legends.

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08/12/05
Carol Cling
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Jeff Strickler
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A misfire on all counts

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James Sanford
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It's a plot that unravels on its own, without characters, without anything, not even a point of view. It's a zombie.

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Vincent Canby
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Better than you'd think.

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Ken Hanke
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07/25/02
Scott Weinberg
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Ultimately, Sunset plays like deluxe dinner theater fare. It's a diversion to take along with your after-meal coffee and dessert.

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01/01/00
Hal Hinson
Washington Post
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A tale that is not quite a comedy, or a murder mystery, or a crime thriller, or an expose of Hollywood slime, but manages to make half-hearted stabs in all these directions.

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Half of the movie wants to be cheerful, and the other half seems morbid and disenchanted.

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