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Desperate Hours
Desire is the deadliest weapon of all.
An escaped con, on the run from the law, moves into a married couple's house and takes over their lives.
- Original title
- Desperate Hours
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- $18,000,000
- Revenue
- $2,742,912
GenerationofSwine
Jan 12, 2023 · via TMDB
OK, it's not Bogie. Let's get that out of the way from the start. People are going to hate this on principal because it doesn't have Bogart in it... ...and that is fair. People like me are also going to hate this out the door not only because it doesn't have Bogie in it but also because it is a remake... ...and that is also a fair hate. but if you get beyond that, it is really an entertaining thriller in the strictest late 80s early 90s thriller sense and just as flawed as all of them from that era. Artistically, it's really an 80s stock thriller with 90s cinematography. Neither bad nor good. Neither terrible nor great. However, it is an entertaining movie to watch, it's gripping and thrilling enough to keep you in a good mood whilst watching it...so 10 stars. So long as a movie entertains, it did it's job. This was watchable and entertaining.
Wuchak
May 27, 2022 · via TMDB
_**A Tarantino flick before they existed**_ An intelligent sociopathic convict (Mickey Rourke) escapes custody in Salt Lake City and meets up with his brother (Elias Koteas) and their hulking, dull-witted collaborator (David Morse). They need a place to hide out until the mastermind’s defense lawyer can catch up with them (Kelly Lynch) and so randomly choose the Cornell’s abode in the suburbs due to its "For Sale" sign (Anthony Hopkins & Mimi Rogers). “Desperate Hours” (1990) is a quirky crime thriller by Michael Cimino that updates the book/play/movie from 1954-55. Some people don't 'get' this flick. It walks the balance beam between seriousness and parody or black humor. Lindsay Crouse's amusingly over-the-top FBI chief is a good example. The two random college girls in ridiculously short shorts is another, not to mention the big lug thug in clothes covered with blood stains. What "Timmy" (Hopkins) does to a certain character at the end is yet another. Then there's the incongruous orchestral score by David Mansfield. Remember, director Michael Cimino's first movie was "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" (1974), a Tarantino flick two decades before he shot to fame with “Pulp Fiction.” Like those films and “The Gauntlet” (1977), “Desperate Hours” is quasi-believable mixed with glaring exaggerations. For instance, remember the shot-to-hell house collapsing in “Gauntlet”? It’s similar with this one, just a little more low-key. Shawnee Smith was 20 during shooting and looks great as the 15 year-old daughter. Meanwhile Brittney Lewis and Lise Wilburn play the aforementioned “college girls.” Shorts like theirs wouldn’t come into style until almost 40 years later. The movie runs 1 hour, 46 minutes, and was shot in Utah: Salt Lake City, Echo Junction, Orem, Zion, and Capitol Reef; as well as Telluride, Colorado. GRADE: B
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Mickey Rourke
Michael Bosworth
Anthony Hopkins
Tim Cornell
Mimi Rogers
Nora Cornell
Lindsay Crouse
Brenda Chandler
Kelly Lynch
Nancy Breyers
Elias Koteas
Wally Bosworth
David Morse
Albert
Shawnee Smith
May Cornell
Gerry Bamman
Ed Tallent
Matt McGrath
Kyle
John Christopher Jones
Neff
Dean Norris
Maddox
John Finn
Lexington
Christopher Curry
Chabon
James Rebhorn
Prosecutor
Elizabeth Ruscio
Judge
Ellen McElduff
Bank Teller
Mike Nussbaum
Mr. Nelson
Peter Crombie
Connelly
Michael Flynn
Ornita
George Sullivan
Sniper
Brittney Lewis
College Girl
Allan A. Apone
Makeup Artist
Carey Loftin
Stunts
Dennis Scott
Stunts
Doug Coleman
Stunts
Gary McLarty
Stunts
Randy Hall
Stunts
Michael Cimino
Director
Christopher Rouse
Editor
Dino De Laurentiis
Producer
Michael Cimino
Producer
Lawrence Konner
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