U Turn

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U Turn
U Turn DVD cover
Directed by	Oliver Stone
Produced by	Dan Halsted, Clayton Townsend
Written by	John Ridley (book and screenplay) Oliver Stone Richard Rutowski
Starring	Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Lopez, Powers Boothe
Music by	Ennio Morricone
Release date(s)	August 27, 1997 (Telluride Film Festival)
Running time	125 min.
Language	English
Budget	$19,000,000 (estimated)
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U Turn is a 1997 film directed by Oliver Stone, based on the book Stray Dogs by John Ridley. It stars Sean Penn, Billy Bob Thornton, Jennifer Lopez, Jon Voight, Powers Boothe, Joaquin Phoenix, Claire Danes and Nick Nolte.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Reception 3 Trivia 4 External links

[edit] Plot

The plot concerns a drifter (Penn) who ends up entangled in a plot involving a woman (Lopez) and her husband (Nolte), also finding himself in conflict with the town mechanic (Thornton).

[edit] Reception

Roger Ebert gave the film 1 1/2 stars, deeming it a "repetitive, pointless exercise in genre filmmaking--the kind of film where you distract yourself by making a list of the sources." Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote that it "demonstrates a filmmaker in complete command of his craft and with little control over his impulses."

[edit] Trivia

Sean Penn's role was at one point going to be played by Bill Paxton.^{[citation needed]}

Sean Penn, Joaquin Phoenix and Claire Danes would later reunite for the 2003 film It's All About Love.

[edit] External links

• U-Turn at the Internet Movie Database
• U-Turn review by Roger Ebert
• San Francisco Chronicle review

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