Red Letters
Posted on: March 16, 2007
Produced in: USA
Year: 2000
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Actors:
| Peter Coyote | Dennis Burke |
| Nastassja Kinski | Lydia Davis |
| Fairuza Balk | Gretchen Van Buren |
| Jeremy Piven | Thurston Clarque |
| Ernie Hudson | Detective Glen Teal |
| Paul Gleason | Dean Van Buren |
| Heather Ehlers | Karen Clarque |
| Steve Monroe | Schminick |
| Udo Kier | George Kessler |
| Layla Roberts | Cheryl Russo |
| Owen Bush | Old Man |
| Kenneth Ryan | Lawyer |
| Brian Leckner | Lenzo Russo |
| Susan Morgenstern | Nancy Maxwell |
| Antoinette Valente | Molly |
Directors: Bradley Battersby
Certification: Australia:M | Germany:12 | Iceland:12 | USA:R
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A must see movie!
"Red Letters" happens to be one of the must see movies I have to watch.
Brian T. Whitlock (GOWBTW) from WILMINGTON, NC - 8 April 2006A great cast of characters goes along with the plot, and it's very
suspenseful as well. Peter Coyote did a spectacular job playing the
reluctantly helpful Professor Dennis Burke, and Fairuza Balk looked
good as student Gretchen Van Buren. Nastassja Kinski is the hot and
sexy convict Lydia Davis, who's desperate need of being cleared of a
crime. I think the four pictures of the photo booth was rather kinky.
Lydia(Kinski) taking off her sweater. The question is what resulted of
her state, Bra? or Braless? Who knows? The one scene where Lydia runs
into Gretchen, and changes clothes with each other. That was strange.
However, noticing Dennis' odd behavior gets him kicked out of school,
but somehow it was worth it because of his conscience of finding the
truth about Lydia's innocence. The movie was great, it has plenty to go
on, and it's a big keeper in the video library. Rating 4 out of 5
stars.
The humor is intentional, folks!
Like many other respondents, I ran across this genially goofy mystery while
apspr from the Midwest - 26 April 2004surfing and didn’t expect to stick with it more than a few minutes. But it
grabbed me from the beginning and held up almost to the end. Thanks to the
person who noted that the film was shot in 21 days on a shoestring. That
accounts for the gaps in the plot (like certain scenes that we expect to see
but were probably never filmed). But the shoestring production makes the
acting, the comic touches, and the overall unpredictability of the plot all
the more impressive. The screenplay found some really ingenious things to
do with these likable characters. It wouldn’t work without excellent performances. The director strikes me as
someone who really works well with actors. Coyote gives a really fine comic
performance, showing more emotional range than he’s usually allowed to.
Balk, Piven, and Kinski are also very good. Ernie Hudson, who has played
this cop role a dozen times, is a treat in the knowing and yet not smug
notes he hits. You get the feeling he’s seen it all, knows exactly where
it’s going, and will just let it get there before he steps in to mop things
up. The film struck me as primarily a comedy (which is pretty much given away
near the end by the little alligator in Pauly Shore’s backyard wading
pool)–but I’m surprised more respondents haven’t noticed this. It had me
consistently chuckling throughout. I guess I’m a sucker for these offbeat little films that you don’t expect
much from. But in the last few months, I’ve left the local multiplex
shaking my head in disbelief that good filmmakers could make "big" thrillers
as bad as Twisted and Taking Lives. Red Letters is a heck of a lot more fun
to watch, and deserves more exposure.
They should have called this Red Herrings
It’s a shame, really, that the script of this film had more holes than you
Rogue-32 from L A. - 25 March 2004could shake a stick at (mixed metaphor intentional), because Kinski and
Coyote – both supremely talented performers who are capable of great
subtlety and nuance – have wonderful chemistry together, and the
always-provocative Fairuza Balk didn’t hurt the mix either. Jeremy Piven
would have been great here too, if his character (and all the other
supporting characters) hadn’t been written as a plot device. As for the
main proceedings, the writers just didn’t know how to create the suitable
guilty-or-innocent tension for Kinski’s character — instead they gave us
confusion, contradiction and, by the finale, downright
let’s-hope-the-viewers-don’t-notice claptrap.
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