Clay Pigeons
Lester Long never forgets a friend.
Lester Long never forgets a friend.
Comedy, Crime, Drama
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1998
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Clay is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend, Earl, kill himself because of the ongoing affair that Clay was having with the man's wife, Amanda. Feeling guilty, Clay now resists the widow when she presses him to continue with the affair. Clay unknowingly befriends a serial killer named Lester Long who murders the widow in an attempt to "help" his "fishing buddy."
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Runtime:
104 min
Release date:
25 Sep 1998
Country:
DE, GB, US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$8,000,000
Revenue:
$1,800,000
Awards:
1 nomination total
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
Slanted as a black comedy, but fails to secure the sufficiently outre tone (let alone any real suspense) needed to make it more than a middling retread.
– Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
fresh:
This quirky comedy thriller, produced by Ridley Scott, is both blackly funny and, at times, tensely disturbing and quite macabre.
– Derek Adams,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
rotten:
"You've got a sense of humor, I like that," Lester Long proclaims at one point. Well, we all like that, but would it be asking too much to have a little coherence to go along with it?
– Kenneth Turan,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb 2001
rotten:
Within Clay Pigeons is a smaller story that might have involved us more, but it's buried by overkill.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
It's got unpredictable plot twists and unexpected laughs coming out of dark corners.
– Bob Graham,
San Francisco Chronicle,
1 Jan 2000