Bone

1972
R
1h 35m

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6.7/10

1.5K

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When a criminal breaks into the Beverly Hills home of a wealthy couple having marital problems, he unwillingly provides the spouses with an unlikely resolution to their conflicts as well as a solution to his own secret problem.

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When a criminal breaks into the Beverly Hills home of a wealthy couple having marital problems, he unwillingly provides the spouses with an unlikely resolution to their conflicts as well as ... Read allWhen a criminal breaks into the Beverly Hills home of a wealthy couple having marital problems, he unwillingly provides the spouses with an unlikely resolution to their conflicts as well as a solution to his own secret problem.When a criminal breaks into the Beverly Hills home of a wealthy couple having marital problems, he unwillingly provides the spouses with an unlikely resolution to their conflicts as well as a solution to his own secret problem.

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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

1.5K

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See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
The German Shepherd in the film was Larry Cohen's own dog, and the red sweater sported by Yaphet Kotto in latter portions of the movie was also Cohen's--which Kotto then took and never gave back.

Quotes
The Girl: Do you have a mistress?
Bill: No. Too much time, too demanding - a lot of work keeping it a secret, you know. Rides, and motel rooms...
The Girl: How do you like your meat? Don't tell me - medium.
Bill: While all that energy could be better put to use by expanding profits, getting ahead... instead of laid and alone. You're always alone afterwards, you know? Try to put something of yourself into it. But afterwards, lying there, it all seems so... fucking impersonal. What could be new? People have been doing it for millions of years - Romans, Egyptians, Babylonians - what can be new? What makes it ME doing it? It could be anybody doing it with anybody else, so unless you put some little bit of PERVERSION of your own to make it special - but suppose you're not a pervert?
The Girl: Oh, you could learn.

Alternate versions
The original UK cinema release of Bone (and its video release) lost 3 minutes, and was missing the end of the scene where Bill (Andrew Duggan) presents a car advertisement (we don't see Bill looking into the cars and seeing that they are filled with dead bodies) and the end section of Bill's conversation with a woman in a bar. It seems these cuts were made by the distributor.

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Edited from Amour toujours (1964)

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An interesting relic from the counter-culture

Larry Cohen's BONE (1972) is a strange but interesting little film from an era when it was actually okay to lambast the capitalist mucky-mucks. Bone (Yaphet Kotto) is a young black tough who wanders into Beverly Hills and menaces a bourgeois white couple played by Andrew Duggan and Joyce Van Patten. Duggan is a slimy car salesman and Van Patten plays his trophy wife. (They have a grown son, who is in a Spanish jail for trying to smuggle hashish.) The film is supposed to be a satire of white racism and male privilege--and it is, but it's uneven at best. The film is well acted but a stronger, more coherent script would have helped. (Bonus moment: there's a hilarious moment when a hippie girl deliberately puts down a banana peel in a grocery store and--you guessed it--a hapless clerk goes sailing into a display in one of the best pratfalls ever recorded on film.)