The Grifters (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: July 27, 2021
- Originally Released: 1990
- Label: Miramax
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Cusack, Anjelica Huston & Annette Bening | |
Performer: | Stephen Tobolowsky, Michael Laskin, Eddie Jones, Sandy Baron, Lou Hancock, Gailard Sartain, Pat Hingle, Jeremy Piven, Charles Napier, J.T. Walsh, Frances Bay, Xander Berkeley & Juliet Landau | |
Directed by | Stephen Frears | |
Edited by | Mick Audsley | |
Screenplay by | Donald E. Westlake | |
Composition by | Elmer Bernstein | |
Story by | Jim Thompson | |
Produced by | Martin Scorsese, Robert A. Harris & Jim Painter | |
Director of Photography: | Oliver Stapleton |
Entertainment Reviews:
91%
TOMATOMETER
...[Huston's] performance is as devastating as any in film...
Rolling Stone
4 stars out of 5 -- [A] stylishly retro adap of one of the author's most representative works....With its coldly amoral nihilism intact.
Total Film
...Bening and Cusack are perfection at what they are doing, she twinkly as a rhinestone, he dangerously passive....[Frears] has an entire movie in which to play with our nerves, and in a masterful display of control, he never lets up...
Los Angeles Times
The movie's no con; it's the real thing....[Cusack gives] one of the best performances of his career...
Wall Street Journal
...Stunning noir....[Cusack shows] circumspect intelligence... -- Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly
...Guaranteed to take the breath away....[Few films] pack a wallop to compare with this... -- Critic's Choice
New York Times
Slick surrealism from Stephen Frears...
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Product Description:
THE GRIFTERS is an intense character study of a group of people caught up in a world where nobody can be trusted. Stephen Frears presents this cool and brutal adaptation of Jim Thompson's stylish noir novel, which centers on the complex lives of three con artists. Shady Roy Dillon (John Cusack), a low-level Los Angeles con man and petty thief, and Roy's sexy, amoral girlfriend Myra (Annette Bening), a con artist who is down on her luck and willing to do whatever it takes to get back on top of her game; are the focal point of the action. Rounding out the trio is Roy's mother, Lilly (Angelica Huston), a veteran con artist who shares little with Roy other than a bizarre oedipal attraction. The seedy underbelly of LA life is played out in evocative tableaux, as Myra and Lilly compete for Roy's attention until they ultimately drive him away.
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- Sales Rank: 63,551
- UPC: 191329201947
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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