U Turn

U Turn

  • Director: Oliver Stone
  • Countries of origin: United States, France
  • Language: English
  • Release date: October 3, 1997
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital, SDDS
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Stray Dogs
  • "U-Turn" is a western thriller with Hitchcock suspense characteristics directed by Oliver Stone and starring Sean Justin Penn and J.Lo. It incorporates western, pornography, incest, murder, betrayal, absurdity and The black humor fully demonstrates the ferocity and cruelty, shamelessness and depravity of people when they are surviving. 
    The film was released in the United States on October 3, 1997. 

    Details

    • Release date October 3, 1997
    • Filming locations Florence, Arizona, USA
    • Production companies Phoenix Pictures, Illusion Entertainment Group, Clyde Is Hungry Films

    Box office

    Budget

    $19,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $6,682,098

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $2,730,440

    Gross worldwide

    $6,682,098

    Movie reviews

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    • By Jamarcus 2022-03-25 09:01:10

      a futile farce

      "There are so many obstacles in our lives, it's really fucking interesting. This logic is called black humor"
                                                                                                  -----Wang Xiaobo


          "U-Turn", starring Sean Penn and Jennifer Lopez. A western thriller with Hitchcock suspense, full of dark humor.

        If you didn't come to this town, according to Bobby's unscrupulous way of approaching each other, every night should be beautiful,...

    • By Marques 2022-03-24 09:02:17

      It's life, I can't tell

      He ran desperately, trying to escape the domination of fate.
      But everything was in vain, because he was not running by himself, but was running behind his back by fate.
      At the end of the film, when the camera rises vertically like Google Earth, we finally see the
      true protagonist of the film: Destiny.
      It is invisible and intangible, floating in the sky, overlooking the common people.
      Common, small.
      Those little moving dots in the desert are nothing but dough, about...

    • By Elenora 2022-03-24 09:02:17

      Unexpected road movie U turn

      The main reason to open this movie is to experience the feeling of being on the road. After all, it is in the bean list recommended by road movies. . . No! think! arrive! never expected! Totally fascinated by the story of what happened in the small town, even if it didn't have the sense of a road movie.
             It might only take half an hour to watch it, and I think it is very similar to "No Man's Land". It should be an imitation of this movie. Especially in the car repair place, and the...

    • By Casey 2022-03-24 09:02:17

      U Turn

      It's the kind of movie that just started watching, has been, and after a long time, I think it's really a messed up movie. But unknowingly, I discovered the mystery of the movie, and at the end, I sighed and sighed with emotion.

      The lens is not bright, the dry land scorched by the scorching sun, the sweat, the dust, the blood, the cigarettes, the violence, the sex.

      A dilapidated town, every one is a hideous face.

      There is no complete positive or negative character,...

    • By Richie 2022-03-23 09:02:14

      Facing the blue sky with a slight smile

      From childhood to adulthood, different characters taught me to have hope in life, little tadpoles, crows, pony, Lu Xun, Han Han, friends, strangers... Different characters tell their own stories, and I like to listen to other people's stories.
      After watching a lot of good foreign language films, I know that every character in the film is not as simple as making a soy sauce, and is more or less implicated in the fate of Bobby. At the beginning of the film, with the movement of the camera,...

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    • By Pamela 2022-04-24 07:01:14

      Every time I watch this movie, I think of "Dog Town". Greed, fear, cruelty, doubt...even love, can be transformed into pure evil under certain circumstances. You think the car mechanic is a fool, but in fact he is a profiteer; you think the blind man is a wise man, but in fact he is a liar; you think the policeman is an angel of justice, but in fact he is a sex maniac... In the end, even the hero and heroine who are victims become murderers mad. How evil is human nature? Or how...

    • By Adelbert 2022-04-24 07:01:14

      It's like a Coen Brothers film, but without the religious heaviness of their films, it's more like an unrestrained carnival about the absurd. At that time, I should have watched it together with the TV lady, but now I'm a little embarrassed that I'm eating...

    • By Eusebio 2022-04-23 07:02:40

      The story of each southern town has its own set of survival laws and moral standards, with an independent spirit of impunity, and a wild beauty under the quiet exterior. Outsiders always seem out of place and generally become the trigger for dramatic conflicts. ps did I see Liv...

    • By Roscoe 2022-04-23 07:02:40

      greed, deceit, betrayal, lies,...

    • By Stacy 2022-04-23 07:02:40

      Cohen's Story, Stone's...

    Behind the scenes gags

    1. In the film, when Sean Justin Penn tries to buy a ticket at the bus station, standing behind him is a cameo by Liv Tyler . 
    2. Oliver Stone once said that the film was inspired by a story he saw in a homeless man in the early 1980s. 
    3. After Joaquin Rafael Bottom sang for the film, it was not until 2005 that he sang another film, "No One Goes...
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    Evaluation action

    The film uses absurd theme irony, and the shooting method is very amazing. The camera follows Sean Justin Penn helplessly in the town, fast switching, and constant zooming in and out, which means that from the moment he set foot on this road, Destiny is no longer in his hands. "No U-turn" seems to push him to despair step by step. The film explores the fragility of human nature and the paleness of feelings. The last four people who...
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    Movie quotes

    • Toby N. Tucker: I'll beat you so bad I'll make your mother sick!

    • Bobby: I'm here to get my car back.

      Darrell: You got the money?

      [Bobby gives him the money]

      Darrell: Two hundred dollars in hundred dollar bills, this morning you was flat out broke.

      Bobby: That's none of your fucking business.

      Darrell: I don't want no dirty money. I run a clean business!

    • Jake McKenna: [walks in on Bobby and Grace kissing] Grace!

      Grace: Jake! I thought you were in Phoenix.

      Jake McKenna: Who the hell is this?

      Bobby: Who the hell are you?

      Jake McKenna: I'm her husband!

      Bobby: Husband?