Novocaine R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 23, 2002
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Helena Bonham Carter, Laura Dern & Steve Martin | |
Performer: | Kevin Bacon, Elias Koteas & Scott Caan | |
Directed by | David Atkins | |
Screenwriting by | David Atkins | |
Composition by | Danny Elfman & Steve Bartek | |
Art Direction by | Craig Jackson | |
Produced by | Paul Mones & Daniel M. Rosenberg | |
Director of Photography: | Vilko Filac | |
Executive Production by | Michele Weisler |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Prejudicado por um roteiro previsível e que jamais opta por um gênero claro, o filme traz uma ótima atuação de Steve Martin, que deveria fazer mais filmes "sérios".
Cinema em Cena
Rating: 1/4 --
The casting is peculiar, the tone is off, the plot is uninteresting and the ending is sorry.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Rating: 3/5 --
This dark, stylish tale isn't for kids.
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Common Sense Media
Rating: 3/5 --
The film and site offer an offbeat trip, but this is certainly not recommended for anyone who's currently thinking about major dental work.
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Film Threat
Rating: 2.5/4 --
While the plot does work in mechanical terms, its multiple ins and outs never achieve more than plodding motion.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Rating: 3/5 --
This Hitchcockian yarn compensates for its leading man's rather anonymous performance with some well-placed shocks, a morbid sense of humour, and a climax that will literally put your teeth on edge.
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BBC.com
This movie was not effective.
Ebert & Roeper
Product Description:
Screenwriter David Atkins (ARIZONA DREAM) makes his directorial debut with the black comedy NOVOCAINE. Frank Sangster (Steve Martin), a nice-guy dentist with a thriving practice, shares his perfectly ordered, successful life with his cheerily plastic hygienist-fiancée, Jean (Laura Dern). Frank's structured world is suddenly flipped upside down when his good-for-nothing brother, Harlan (Elias Koteas), comes to town and a dangerously attractive drug-seeking patient, Susan (Helena Bonham-Carter), shows up in his office. When Susan absconds with the office's narcotics supply, Frank is too smitten by her bad-girl beauty to turn her into the DEA. Instead, he constructs a web of lies, carelessly jeopardizing his practice and future marriage, just to see the femme fatale again. Frank's troubles multiply when Susan's violent junkie brother, Duane (Scott Caan), discovers the budding dentist-patient relationship and Susan wishes aloud that Duane would just "disappear."
Atkins' absurdist take on the time-honored conventions of film noir features strong performances, particularly from Dern as the intensely chipper Jean, and from Kevin Bacon in a wry cameo. The gruesome finale can take its place alongside MARATHON MAN in the annals of cinematic dental horror.
Atkins' absurdist take on the time-honored conventions of film noir features strong performances, particularly from Dern as the intensely chipper Jean, and from Kevin Bacon in a wry cameo. The gruesome finale can take its place alongside MARATHON MAN in the annals of cinematic dental horror.
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- UPC: 012236123507
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