U Turn - Ici commence l'enfer

Original title: U Turn

1997
12
2h 5m

IMDb RATING

6.7/10

56K

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Claire Danes, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, Billy Bob Thornton, Jon Voight, Powers Boothe, and Joaquin Phoenix in U Turn - Ici commence l'enfer (1997)

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A man heading to Vegas to pay off his gambling debt before the Russian mafia kills him is forced to stop in an Arizona town where everything that can go wrong does go wrong.A man heading to Vegas to pay off his gambling debt before the Russian mafia kills him is forced to stop in an Arizona town where everything that can go wrong does go wrong.A man heading to Vegas to pay off his gambling debt before the Russian mafia kills him is forced to stop in an Arizona town where everything that can go wrong does go wrong.

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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

56K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations total

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Trivia
When Jennifer Lopez's character (Grace McKenna) flashes back at the end of the film we see lots of photographs of her as a child. These photographs are actually photos from Jennifer Lopez's private collections of herself as a child.

Goofs
Near the first of the movie, where Cooper's car passes a vulture eviscerating a dead animal, the vulture has a leg ring with an attached band.

Quotes
Blind Man: Your lies are old but you tell them pretty good.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Kiss the Girls/The Matchmaker/U Turn/The Locusts/Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)

Soundtracks
It's A Good Day
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Performed by Peggy Lee
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Featured review

7/10

Billy Bob Thornton And Joaquin Phoenix Stole The Movie, With What Little Parts They Had.

U-Turn is about a man named Bobby Cooper (Sean Penn) who is on his way to pay a debt to a gangster when his car breaks down in the small, redneck town of Superior. There, Bobby is taken advantage of by the good IL' boys in every way possible, from the dirty mechanic to the town sheriff. He meets a beautiful girl named Grace (Jennifer Lopez) and falls for her, and she seemingly falls for him as well. From here, there are twists and turns in the plot all the way to the very end of the movie.

Sean Penn was decent as Bobby, but seemed a bit week and was taken advantage of a bit too easily. I guess that was Bobby's character so he did a good job. Jennifer Lopez did not have as big a part as I thought, but she did OK with it. Nothing spectacular, just OK.

The characters that stole the movie, in my honest opinion, were Darrell the mechanic (Billy Bob Thornton) and Toby N. Tucker (Joaquin Phoenix). They had the redneck stereotypes down pat, especially Thornton.

This movie was a decent little thriller. I am glad I did not see it way back when it was in theaters but it is OK for a rental. I give 7 of 10 stars.