#JENNIFER LOPEZ U TURN MOVIE MOVIE#
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The laughter catches in your throat when Jake and Bobby dicker over the price of killing Grace ( 'You drive a hard bargain' ). Nolte's Jake says, 'I'm a man without scruples,' and scruples have long since departed Superior, Ariz.

#JENNIFER LOPEZ U TURN MOVIE MOVIE#

It's all a big, violent joke, of course, and a field day for people who enjoy teasing out movie references except that Stone and scriptwriter John Ridley (working from his own novel, 'Stray Dogs' ) press things so insistently that you catch glimmers of a different purpose. The residents of Superior are quite a crew: As the put-upon Bobby finally asks, 'Is everyone in this town on drugs?' Everything conspires against him: An innocent encounter in a diner with a ditzy young woman (Claire Danes) invokes the wrath of her macho boyfriend (a nice send-up by Joaquin Phoenix), who will reappear at the most unexpected and inconvenient times. Bobby's as big a goose as any of James M. Stone's game is to constantly step up the pressure on Bobby while undercutting his every attempt to leave town, or even to understand what's happening to him. Grace tells Bobby that her abusive husband was also her mother's lover, and is responsible for her death.ДЄnd so forth. You know that eventually Bobby will agree to the murder plan, but that things aren't as simple as he imagined. Bobby has to watch his step, since he's caught the eye of suspicious Sheriff Potter (Powers Boothe). Jake quickly sizes up Bobby as unconcerned with matters of conscience, and offers him money to kill Grace, whom he considers a tramp. In a most wildly unlikely incident, Bobby loses all the money, so he can't get his car back and can't leave town. That's only the beginning of Bobby's bad luck. He leaves the car with the town's grease-encrusted, idiotic mechanic (an outrageous turn by Billy Bob Thornton), and soon encounters local beauty Grace (Jennifer Lopez), who is, naturally, burdened with an older, insanely jealous husband, Jake (Nick Nolte in a string tie). Bobby Cooper (Sean Penn) is a small-time hood driving to Las Vegas with a bag of money he owes to mobsters when his car - a classic red Mustang - breaks down in Superior, Ariz. 1.It's the usual simple story that turns into an inescapable nightmare. If the black hilarity of 'U-Turn' eventually begins to feel forced, its manic frivolity the victim of a heavier self-consciousness, it still limns another fascinating whorl Stone's cinematic thumbprint.ДЄnn Hornaday, currently working at the Austin-American Statesman in Texas, will be The Sun's new film critic beginning Nov. It's no wonder that Stone, who has been regularly excoriated for his revisionist histories and socio-cultural meditations, would want to take a break by making something of no weightier consequence than its body count.

'U-Turn' continues that growth in its own audacious way, even if the story doesn't always merit the heavy style the filmmakers throw at it. One of the pleasures of following Stone's career has been watching his growth as a filmmaker, especially as it has coincided with a very fruitful collaboration with cinematographer Robert Richardson. (Casting Lopez as an inexplicably Latin-accented 'Apache wife' is mystifying if not downright insulting.)

#JENNIFER LOPEZ U TURN MOVIE LICENSE#

The rest of the cast simply cashes in on their license to ham it up as much as they please, no doubt an amusing departure for them, if not always for the audience.

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