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The Hot Spot [1990]
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Editorial
Amazon.co.uk Review
The Hot Spot is best known to lecherous film buffs for Jennifer Connelly's topless scene, but this sultry southern noir deserves more than prurient interest. It's arguably Dennis Hopper's best directorial effort (OK, so that's not saying much), and Charles Williams' source novel Hell Hath No Fury finds Hopper in a comfortable B-movie milieu, riffing on Double Indemnity with an overripe tale of sex, greed and blackmail in an unnamed Texan town. Fresh from the final season of Miami Vice, Don Johnson stars as a shifty drifter, conning his way into a salesman job on a used-car lot, where the boss's insatiable wife (Virginia Madsen) offers him sexual favours and a lovely secretary's (Connelly) innocence is threatened by a percolating scandal. Nobody's really innocent, of course, and Hopper spices this languid web of secrets with enough trashy misbehaviour to qualify The Hot Spot as a bona fide guilty pleasure. --Jeff Shannon
A Dennis Hopper film
Review date: 2008-11-20 Rating: 10 out of 10
It is really worth to spend two hours for watching this strong drama. I had seen it before on a French channel and I enjoyed, and I watched it again recently in England and I enjoyed again.
The director Dennis Hopper is known for his film cult 'Easy Rider'. The Hot Spot, as a Film Neo-Noir, is although very different from Easy Rider in its style and its story.
A man drives into a small Texas town that seems to be very quiet. However too many dirty plots of sex, money and murder are happening here and along all the film you will be asking yourself
-'So who is good (if anyone) and who is bad?'
-'Who is right and who is wrong?'
-'Who is reliable and who is not?'.....
This moral ambiguity is one of the characteristics of Film Noir. Another main ingrediants of Film Noir is that, whether 'good' or 'bad', the female characters have in hand the destiny of the male characters.
Enjoy!
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Reviews
Awwwww, poor sweet kid.
Review date: 2008-09-18 Rating: 4 out of 10
Sleazeball, slimeball, bitch and sweet kid, plus supporting cast. Bitch wins. Sweet kid gets hurt.
(It's Jennifer Connelly. She's always lovely.)
Great Movie
Review date: 2004-05-13 Rating: 10 out of 10
Its just Great. A real stylish film.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Don Johnson
Charles Martin Smith
Jennifer Connelly
Virginia Madsen
William Sadler
Creators:
Don Johnson (Primary Contributor)
Virginia Madsen (Primary Contributor)
Bill Gavin (Producer)
Deborah Capogrosso (Producer)
Derek Power (Producer)
Paul Lewis (Producer)
Stephen Ujlaki (Producer)
Charles Williams (Writer)
Nona Tyson (Writer)
Director(s):
Recording label: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
EAN: 5014756281823
Binding: VHS Tape
Number of items: 1
Format: Dolby, PAL, Surround Sound,
Release date: 1993-06-07
Audience rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Running time: 124 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1990-10-12