U Turn

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U Turn
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Oliver Stone
Produced by	Dan Halsted Clayton Townsend
Written by	John Ridley (book and screenplay) Oliver Stone
Starring	Sean Penn Nick Nolte Jennifer Lopez Powers Boothe
Music by	Ennio Morricone
Cinematography	Robert Richardson
Editing by	Hank Corwin Thomas J. Nordberg
Distributed by	TriStar Pictures Phoenix Pictures
Release date(s)	August 27, 1997 (Telluride Film Festival)
Running time	125 min.
Country	France United States
Language	English
Budget	$19,000,000 (estimated)
IMDb profile

U Turn is a 1997 Neo-noir/drama 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.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Reception
5 Trivia
6 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] Cast

Sean Penn as Bobby Cooper
Nick Nolte as Jake McKenna
Jennifer Lopez as Grace McKenna
Powers Boothe as Sheriff Virgil Potter
Claire Danes as Jenny
Joaquin Phoenix as Toby N. Tucker a.k.a. TNT
Jon Voight as Blind Man
Billy Bob Thornton as Darrell
Abraham Benrubi as Biker #1
Richard Rutowski as Biker #2
Aida Linares as Jamilla
Sean Stone as Boy in Grocery Store
Ilia Volokh as Sergei
Valeri Nikolayev as Mr. Arkady
Brent Briscoe as Boyd
Bo Hopkins as Ed
Julie Hagerty as Flo
Liv Tyler as Girl in Bus Station "cameo appearance"
Laurie Metcalf as Bus Station ticket attendant "cameo appearance"

[edit] Production

U Turn was filmed in 1996 on location in multiple areas of Arizona and California.

[edit] Reception

Roger Ebert gave the film 1½ 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"[1]. 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"[2].

[edit] Trivia

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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 very different 2003 film It's All About Love.
The first time Joaquin Phoenix is on screen, Johnny Cash is playing the background. Joaquin later depicted Cash in Walk the Line.
A Bollywood remake of the movie was made in 2004 called Musafir starring Sanjay Dutt and Anil Kapoor

[edit] External links

U-Turn at the Internet Movie Database

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