Palmetto

Name: Palmetto
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Romance, Crime
Released: February 20, 1998
Duration: 114 min
Rating: 43
Cast: Elisabeth Shue, Gina Gershon, Woody Harrelson

1998

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Warner Home Video | Release Date: February 20, 1998 | R

Starring: Elisabeth Shue, Gina Gershon, Woody Harrelson

Summary: Woody Harrelson plays a small-timer suckered into a fake kidnapping plot and facing hard time if he can't untangle a mystery involving three women (Shue, Gershon, Sevigny), false identities, cold corpses and assorted clues framing him. (Warner Home Video)

Director: Volker Schlöndorff

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Romance, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 114 min

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Owen Gleiberman

Palmetto has a satisfyingly deceptive plot that ultimately takes one too many turns. Read full review

Stephen Holden

The film, adapted from a novel by James Hadley Chase, aspires to out-noir every other film noir that has been lumped under that popular term, including "The Big Sleep" (which it resembles), in plot trickery and steaminess. Read full review

Ella Taylor

Director Volker Schlöndorff is ponderously out of his depth with comic pulp, and fatally heavy-handed with his actors. Read full review

Tom Meek

What begins as a lush, pulpy gothic laced with intrigue quickly spins into a convoluted web of over engineered and preposterous plot twists. Read full review

Empire Angie Errigo

There is nothing reprehensible about Palmetto; it simply falls short of conviction because you're too aware you've seen it all a hundred times before. Read full review

David Denby

Palmetto is an unconvincing, paint-by-numbers pass at American noir by the usually ambitious German director Volker Schlondorff (The Tin Drum). Read full review

Jack Mathews

Revelations of betrayals, faked identities and double-crosses come in waves in the last half-hour of Palmetto, but by then, the film has raised the one question it can't answer: Who cares? Read full review

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TonyB.

Nov 26, 2005

Steamy as hell, "Palmetto" is too far over the top to be taken very seriously. Unlike the film noir gems it seeks to emulate, it doesn't have a believable moment in it.

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