Fresh
The stylistic fun Stone has in dramatizing this crime of passion thoroughly revitalizes the well-worked genre.
Todd McCarthy, Variety
U Turn
Sex. Murder. Betrayal. Everything that makes life worth living.
1997 · 2h 5m · R
Crime, Thriller
Directed by
Oliver Stone
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U Turn
Overview
When a desperate man’s car breaks down in a bizarre desert town while evading vengeful bookies, he becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle. Caught between a married couple, he’s faced with deadly contracts to kill them both.
Director and cast
- Oliver Stone Director
- Sean Penn as Bobby Cooper
- Nick Nolte as Jake McKenna
- Jennifer Lopez as Grace McKenna
- Joaquin Phoenix as Toby N. Tucker
- Claire Danes as Jenny
- Powers Boothe as Sheriff Virgil Potter
- Billy Bob Thornton as Darrell
- Jon Voight as Blind Man
- Abraham Benrubi as Biker #1
- Richard Rutowski as Biker #2
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
61%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Penn turns in a crisp, unfussy comic performance, Lopez vamps like a scorpion in heat, Nolte sustains a pretty good John Huston impression, and Thornton is mighty peculiar as the mechanic from hell.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rotten
It's a disappointing ride.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Rotten
It's so empty emotionally it's difficult to see what the point is, unless it's the celebration of emptiness, an aim that has become so familiar recently it hardly seems worth the trouble everyone has gone to.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
It demonstrates a filmmaker in complete command of his craft and with little control over his impulses.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
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