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The Hot Spot

Sex is never safe. It’s dangerous.
Sex is never safe. It’s dangerous.
Crime, Romance, Thriller - 1990
The Hot Spot
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Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities — and the local women — after he robs a bank.
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Runtime:
130 min
Release date:
12 Oct 1990
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$1,293,976
Awards:
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Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
The Hot Spot seeps with atmosphere, unfolds at a deceptively relaxed pace, steadily accumulates noirish grit, then dizzily plunges into a Lynch-like plumbing of the dark passions and nasty secrets at the heart of Main Street, USA.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
1 Feb 2014
fresh:
The film might have been a camp hoot if it weren't for the fact that Hopper still believes in all this stuff - he likes his women molten, duplicitous, and in kinky high heels.
– Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Sep 2011
fresh:
For all its genre touches, ''The Hot Spot'' is best remembered for its little eccentricities.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
30 Aug 2004
fresh:
I feel at home in movies like "The Hot Spot." They come out of that vast universe formed by the historic meeting of B movies and the idea of film noir - films about the soft underbelly of the human conscience.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
[Madsen] keeps trying for Blanche DuBois and coming out with Gomer Pyle.
– Hal Hinson,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
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