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| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: October 5, 1990 |
Starring:
Anthony Hopkins, Danny Gerard, David Morse, Elias Koteas, Gerry Bamman, Kelly Lynch, Lindsay Crouse, Mickey Rourke, Mimi Rogers, Shawnee Smith
Summary:
An escaped con, on the run from the law, moves into a married couple's house and takes over their lives.
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For all its improbability and rigorous emotion, Desperate does have its moments of quiet suspense and tension. Cimino often gets good performances and does so here. But when it's all over, nothing really unexpected has happened, and it has taken a lot of unpleasant moments to get through the desperate hours. [11 Oct 1990, p.C09]
This remake of The Desperate Hours, the 1955 Humphrey Bogart criminal-on-the-lam suspenser, is crisp and atmospheric - and doggedly ordinary. [05 Oct 1990, p.46p]
Taken as a whole, the film is dragged down by the same old incoherent plotting and characters, driven by the same old half-baked machismo and mealy-mouthed misogyny that have come to define Cimino the auteur. As a result, and despite the efforts of Rogers and Hopkins, Desperate Hours is more than a title; it's a description of a movie-going experience.
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