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U Turn
1997
· Movie
· 125 min
C
MEANRANK
65/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3280
- IMDb #2955
- Rotten Tomatoes #3042
- Metacritic #2707
- Letterboxd #3074
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3389
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3149
- Metacritic Critics #3046
- Metacritic Audience #1988
- Criticker #2011
- Kinopoisk #1881
- AlloCiné #2387
- Trakt #3647
Every rating
46–78
out of 100
A drifter headed to Las Vegas to pay off a debt is forced to stop in a remote, sun-baked Arizona town when his car breaks down. The bizarre and hostile locals immediately make him a target. He quickly becomes entangled in a dangerous web of deceit, manipulation, and murder involving a seductive young woman, her much older, jealous husband, and a series of increasingly violent and inescapable misunderstandings.
Details
- Director
- Oliver Stone
- Writer
- John Ridley
- Based on
- Stray Dogs by John Ridley
- Studio
- Canal+ Droits Audiovisuels, Illusion Entertainment Group, Phoenix Pictures, Clyde Is Hungry Films
- Released
- 3 October 1997
- Country
- France, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $19.0M
- Box office
- $6.7M
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