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Unlawful Entry

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Unlawful Entry (1992)

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Reviews Counted:29

Fresh:21

Rotten:8

Average Rating:6.2/10

Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: A tense thriller that plays on the fears of contemporary urban life, as well as age-old sexual anxiety. Michael and Karen Carr are the couple with everything: good looks, a happy marriage and a... A tense thriller that plays on the fears of contemporary urban life, as well as age-old sexual anxiety. Michael and Karen Carr are the couple with everything: good looks, a happy marriage and a gorgeous house in an upscale section of Los Angeles. This all changes the night their home is broken into and the wife terrorized at knifepoint by the burgler. Officer Pete Davis, the comforting, supportive policeman who arrives at the scene of the crime, seems like a God-send -- until he starts worming his way into the couple's life in an increasingly inappropriate and disturbing manner. [More]

Starring: Kurt Russell, Madeleine Stowe, Ray Liotta, Roger E. Mosley

Starring: Kurt Russell, Madeleine Stowe, Ray Liotta, Roger E. Mosley, Sherrie Rose

Director: Jonathan Kaplan

Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Screenwriter: Lewis Colick
Producer: Charles Gordon
Composer: James Horner

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Release:

May 22, 2001

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DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Widescreen - 1.85

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 4.0 - English, French
  • Dolby Digital Surround - English, French
  • DTS - English, French
  • Subtitles - English, Spanish
 
 
 
 

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Solid performances lend weight to the flakier elements, with Liotta turning crazed excess into something wild.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/24/06
Time Out

A paint-by-numbers suspense thriller redeemed by stylish, economic direction and a marvelous performance by Ray Liotta as a psycho L.A. cop.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
04/09/08
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Gordon lacks Scorsese's talent for unsettling his audience, but he can turn up the tension until you squirm in your seat or want to shout at the screen.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
04/09/08
Channel 4 Film

No review available.

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05/14/04
Carol Cling
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

A taut thriller much of the way, Unlawful Entry suffers from some serious lapses in logic.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
01/01/00
Chris Hicks
Chris Hicks
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

This well-done suspense-thriller is a variation of the Fatal Attraction theme with Ray Liotta as the cop from hell.

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03/04/06
Chuck O'Leary
Chuck O'Leary
FulvueDrive-in.com

Kurt Russell gives new meaning to the term action hero. A real white-knuckler.

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09/19/02
Clint Morris
Clint Morris
Moviehole

No review available.

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07/15/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Below average thriller. The power of a cop is scary, but most of the plot points are standard thriller moments, right down to the scary cat.

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07/14/03
Fred Topel
Fred Topel
About.com

No review available.

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01/18/04
Greg Maki
Greg Maki
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

glossy, disappointingly flat thriller

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08/04/02
James Sanford
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette

More gripping than it is convincing.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
05/20/03
Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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A solid, suspenseful "B" film

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02/27/03
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
San Francisco Examiner

It's an amazingly sharp, nasty little thriller that takes a silly situation and squeezes it to the core, vicious as a heart attack.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
02/17/07
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

No review available.

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07/26/02
Jeffrey Westhoff
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

A wonderfully nasty turn from Liotta, along with a novel treatment of familiar plotlines, elevates Kaplan's effort into the 'must see' category.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
04/09/08
Jo Berry
Jo Berry
Empire Magazine

Entry is acted more intelligently than is usual in this type of cookie-cutter shocker.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
01/01/00
Joe Brown
Joe Brown
Washington Post

Neither Lewis Colick's script nor Jonathan Kaplan's direction is quite as streamlined as it could be, but you certainly get a run for your money.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
04/09/08
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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There's not really much new here except it's so fascinating to watch Liotta be a crazy guy.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
01/01/00
Kathleen Maher
Kathleen Maher
Austin Chronicle

Okay thriller.

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04/22/05
Kevin Carr
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures
 
 
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