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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 22, 2003
- Originally Released: 1999
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Billy Crudup & Samantha Morton | |
Performer: | Holly Hunter, Jack Black, Denis Leary, Dennis Hopper, Will Patton, Greg Germann, John Ventimiglia, Ben Shenkman & Mark Webber | |
Directed by | Alison Maclean | |
Edited by | Stuart Levy & Geraldine Peroni | |
Screenwriting by | Elizabeth Cuthrell, Oren Moverman & David Urrutia | |
Produced by | Elizabeth Cuthrell, David Urrutia & Lydia Dean Pilcher | |
Director of Photography: | Adam Kimmel |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Manages to blend its stories together into a nearly seamless narrative, sliding dreamily from one episode to the next before we even realize we've gone.
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Combustible Celluloid
Rating: 3.5/4 --
This is not a drug movie like any you've seen.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: B --
takes some different turns
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Old School Reviews
...[Crudup] is wonderful...
Film Comment
...Maclean keeps her mesmerizing film spinning from hilarity to heartbreak....[Crudup is] an actor of fire and grace...
Rolling Stone
Jack Black has become impossible to ignore.
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Independent on Sunday
Rating: .5/4 --
JESUS' SON is bottom of the line trash that wants to be art. Full of self important crap, tedious performances, and embarrassing experimental flourishes, this is a movie to avoid at all costs.
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Sin Magazine
Product Description:
Alison Maclean's (CRUSH) exhilarating adaptation of Denis Johnson's acclaimed short story collection is a deeply compassionate portrait of one man's descent into drug addiction, filled with a potent blend of surreal imagery and gritty realism. Remaining true to Johnson's original text, and in keeping with the film's substance-soaked subject matter, the film is structured in a blurry, fractured fashion. Billy Crudup stars as FH, a Midwestern twenty-something in the 1970s who has decent intentions, but only seems to make things worse for everyone, including himself. When he meets Michelle (played with ferocious intensity by Samantha Morton), he finds himself falling deeper into the dangerous, desperate world of drug abuse. A tragic event forces FH to confront his destructive lifestyle head on, even when it appears it might be too late. Landing in Arizona, he gets a job writing the newsletter for an assisted living facility, and finds redemption when he's least expecting it. Crudup and Morton, both incredibly engaging screen presences, make JESUS' SON a powerful, darkly comic, and ultimately uplifting motion picture. Holly Hunter, Jack Black, and Denis Leary all make brief appearances as quirky characters FH meets along his journey.
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Product Info
- UPC: 031398109051
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