Slipstream R

Slipstream
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Format:  DVD
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: February 26, 2008
  • Originally Released: 2007
  • Label: Sony Pictures

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Entertainment Reviews:

Rotten25%

TOMATOMETER
Total Count: 40

Spilled28%

AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 3,526
Rating: 3/5 -- A Hopkins personal vanity project
Filmcritic.com
Nov 9, 2007
Rating: 1.5/4 -- At 96 minutes, this vanity/insanity project runs a bit long; five minutes would have been plenty. Full Review
New York Post
Oct 26, 2007
Rating: 1.5/5 -- What would have perhaps made an excellent short subject becomes a cumbersome, confusing and deeply unsatisfying mess of a vanity project. Full Review
Eye for Film
Oct 28, 2007
Slipstream meanders into some lucidity by film's end, but it remains difficult to determine if it's a work born of genius or madness. The decision lies with the viewer. Full Review
Paste Magazine
Apr 12, 2016
Alternately interesting and unwatchable. Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
Feb 29, 2008
Rating: 1/5 -- A miserable mess of a stream-of-consciousness movie.
Spirituality and Practice
Oct 28, 2007
Rating: D+ -- Either one of the most self-indulgent vanity projects in the history of the Hollywood star system, or a rare revealing look at a distinguished actor who usually keeps his real self out of the spotlight.
AV Club
Oct 25, 2007

Product Description:

Anthony Hopkins channels his inner David Lynch for this MULHOLLAND DRIVE-like descent into the warped mind of a Hollywood screenwriter. Felix Bonhoeffer (Hopkins) appears to be losing his grip on reality. After he witnesses a highway road-rage incident go deadly, Felix's world begins to spin out of control. For one thing, the characters he's written into his most recent script have begun to appear in his actual life. Two of these figures (played by Christian Slater and Jeffrey Tambor) happen to be evil hit men who have just knocked off another seemingly innocent victim (Michael Clarke Duncan). But when Slater's character drops dead on set, the maniacal studio boss (John Turturro) sends Felix to the Mojave Desert to rewrite the script and resolve the situation. Along the way, he struggles to separate reality from fiction before the two blur together to the point where he no longer knows what world he's living in.

With SLIPSTREAM, Hopkins delivers a truly experimental film that will confound many viewers. By the film's conclusion, however, all of the cinematic trickery will make sense. Using a striking assault of visual and sonic tricks--quick-cutting, sound distortion, seemingly nonsensical stock footage--writer/director/composer Hopkins burrows into the mind of a man in a way that most films would never dare. The result is a confounding yet exhilarating satire of Hollywood that features standout performances from its all-star cast.

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Product Info

  • Sales Rank: 127,502
  • UPC: 043396227903
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
  • International Shipping: 1 item

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