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Hurlyburly
1998
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Positive Reviews
8
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3
Average Rating
3.2
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3.8
Eddie, the Sean Penn character, is a bruised romantic with a good mind, who is as unhappy as a person can be, and in a riveting scene uses cocaine to ..
Rogerebert
4.0
That Hurlyburly can delight with its barbed wire and blow anti witticisms while simultaneously making you crave a good n hot battery acid shower to re ..
3.0
Rabe has streamlined the dialogue, sacrificing a lot of funny throwaway lines without lessening the scripts burden on our patience.
E Film Critic
1.3
Hurlyburly, David Rabes play about a bunch of amoral Los Angeles losers, was wickedly funny in its 1984 Broadway incarnation a scathing, seen from New ..
San Francisco Chronicle
1.5
Hurlyburly depicts hedonism as a grim exercise in cynicism, betrayal, and emptiness.
Spirituality And Practice
3.8
Theres never a lack of things to say these characters dont shut up.
ReelViews
4.5
Instead of unproductively pilloring the movie industry, Drazan and Rabe locate Hollywood as the site through which society can treat its conflicts and ..
Film Journal International ..
1.5
When the madness is all taking place in one room, as it does in the play, intensity is generated. When its spread out across a variety of locations, t ..
Internet Reviews
4.5
Alas, it isnt that these passing gestures of evenhandedness arent sincere, its that they dont work.
Salon
2.5
The trailer defines the term as tumultuous commotion, uproar, and it could not more aptly describe this high strung but virtually plotless film.
Mr Brown Movies
3.2
This is not a great drama as much as it is a black comedy that has great acting and intriguing dialogue.
Dennis Schwartz Reviews
4.5
Its amazing what youll find if youre willing to look below the surface.
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