Tequila Sunrise
by Robert Towne
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Actor: J.T. Walsh, Kurt Russell, Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Raul JuliaDirector: Robert Towne
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Conrad L. Hall
Writer: Robert Towne
Editor: Claire Simpson
Producer: Thom Mount
Producer: Tom Shaw
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1997-10-29
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Movie Reviews of Tequila Sunrise
Movie Review: Friends, pals and one girl friend
Summary: 5 Stars
If you manage to know who is who and what is what un that film you will be a genius. Cops are cops and at the same time criminal drug dealers. Drug dealers are convicted drug dealers and yet they are friends. Friends are friends and yet they are cops. And you start all over again in any direction. In that business only friendly cops can survive and the best friends will have the upper hands on their lesser friends. Add a spoonful of love in that and the woman who brings that in will be courted, attacked and befriended on all sides and from all sides. She will be a happy girl indeed, and yet she will have to choose and she will choose the one she loves and not necessarily the one who is on the good side of the drug dealing road. That's the main quality of this film and the actors are just perfect for the job because they seem to believe the deep guano they are telling us. Of course everything is false, a lie, a pretense, a shameful shame but we find the rhythm just perfectly Californian, not too fast, not too slow, just good and nice with slow pauses here and there for us to recapture our breath that might have escaped us to go to more peaceful climates. And they manage to make you like the girl, and like her future husband and like the friend of that future husband, no matter which one of the two, the one who will survive of course. Beautiful. Now don't believe one word of what they say about the future of our world and that cocaine is finished and the future is in grass. When I am told that I feel like crossing the road in front of my house and getting on all fours and starting to graze. That's the cosmic dimension of the philosophy of that film.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 8 Saint Denis, University Paris 12 Créteil, CEGID
Summary of Tequila Sunrise
THE MIX IS DANGEROUS, THE ROMANCE IS SIZZLING, THE ACTION ISEXPLOSIVE WITH THREE OF THE MOST EXCITING PERFORMERS ON SCREENAT ANY ONE TIME.A COOL, CUNNING DRAMA OF FRIENDSHIP AND BETRAYAL, A SEDUCTIVE BLEND OF ACTION AND ROMANCE.Robert Towne is one of Hollywood's most celebrated screenwriters, but because his directorial efforts have been few and far between, anticipation was high when this star-powered crime story was released in 1988. Critical reaction was decidedly mixed, but there's plenty to admire in this silky, visually seductive film about a drug dealer (Mel Gibson) whose best friend from high-school (Kurt Russell) is now working for the Los Angeles sheriff's drug detail. Their personal and professional conflicts are intensified by their love for the same woman, a waitress (Michelle Pfeiffer) at the Italian restaurant they both frequent. There's a big deal going down with a drug lord (the late Raul Julia), but as it twists and turns, Towne's story is really more about personal loyalties and individual honor. And even if it doesn't quite hold together, the movie's got a fantastic look to it (courtesy of the great cinematographer Conrad Hall), and the three stars bring depth and dimension to their well-written roles. --Jeff Shannon
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