U Turn

U Turn

Infobox Film | name = U Turn


caption =Theatrical release poster
director = Oliver Stone
producer = Dan Halsted
Clayton Townsend
writer = John Ridley (book and screenplay) Oliver Stone
starring =Sean Penn
Nick Nolte
Jennifer Lopez
Powers Boothe
music =Ennio Morricone
cinematography =Robert Richardson
editing =Hank Corwin
Thomas J. Nordberg
distributor = TriStar Pictures
Phoenix Pictures
released = August 27, 1997 (Telluride Film Festival)
runtime = 125 min.
country = France
United States
language = English
budget = $19,000,000 (estimated)
imdb_id = 0120399

"U Turn" is a 1997 Neo-noir/drama film directed by Oliver Stone, based on the book "Stray Dogs" by John Ridley. It stars Sean Penn, Billy Bob Thornton, Jennifer Lopez, Jon Voight, Powers Boothe, Joaquin Phoenix, Claire Danes and Nick Nolte.

Plot

The plot concerns a (Penn) who ends up entangled in a plot involving a woman (Lopez) and her husband (Nolte), also finding himself in conflict with the town mechanic (Thornton).

Cast

* Sean Penn as Bobby Cooper
* Nick Nolte as Jake McKenna
* Jennifer Lopez as Grace McKenna
* Powers Boothe as Sheriff Virgil Potter
* Claire Danes as Jenny
* Joaquin Phoenix as Toby N. Tucker a.k.a. TNT
* Jon Voight as Blind Man
* Billy Bob Thornton as Darrell
* Abraham Benrubi as Biker #1
* Richard Rutowski as Biker #2
* Aida Linares as Jamilla
* Sean Stone as Boy in Grocery Store
* Ilia Volokh as Sergei
* Valeri Nikolayev as Mr. Arkady
* Brent Briscoe as Boyd
* Bo Hopkins as Ed
* Julie Hagerty as Flo
* Liv Tyler as Girl in Bus Station "cameo appearance"
* Laurie Metcalf as Bus Station ticket attendant "cameo appearance"

Production

"U Turn" was filmed in 1996 on location in Superior, Arizona and other areas of Arizona and California.

Reception

Roger Ebert gave the film 1½ stars, deeming it a "repetitive, pointless exercise in genre filmmaking—the kind of film where you distract yourself by making a list of the sources". [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19971003/REVIEWS/710030303/1023] Mick LaSalle of the "San Francisco Chronicle" wrote that it "demonstrates a filmmaker in complete command of his craft and with little control over his impulses". [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1997/10/03/DD40308.DTL]

Remake

* A Bollywood remake of the movie was made in 2004 called "Musafir" starring Sanjay Dutt and Anil Kapoor.

References

External links

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