Paris Trout
by Stephen Gyllenhaal
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Actor: Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper, Ed Harris, Ray McKinnon, Tina LiffordDirector: Stephen Gyllenhaal
Cinematographer: Robert Elswit
Editor: Harvey Rosenstock
Producer: Diana Kerew
Producer: Frank Konigsberg
Producer: Larry Sanitsky
Writer: Peter Dexter
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 98 minutes
Release Date: 1991-08-22
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Media Home Video
Studio: Media Home Video
VHS Movie Reviews of Paris Trout
Movie Review: A hidden, crude, poignant and remarkable work!
Summary: 5 Stars
First at all: you may argue the racism in movies have reached the saturation point, and may be you decide to pass down this offer. But let me tell you that this criterion may shadow the possibility to watch one of the most potent and admirable performances in years of an enviable cast.
Consider the Dennis Hopper's performance. I think Dennis has made through his career, six outstanding portraits: Hoosiers,The American friend,Blue Velvet, Black widow, True Romance and this one. Second argument Ed Harris as the implacable investigator is superb too. Third: Barbara Hershey makes a penetrating and brilliant acting as the sensitive wife of Hopper.
Finally,the script by itself: we have a crude and terrible drama in the forties: Hopper plays a role of a convinced racist (and facist too, if you want)who considers the brutal murder means less tha nothing. His out of mind actions are so enrooted in the most stinking beliefs and prejuices.
The sequence of the crime is plenty of high caliber realism and dramatic intensity that makes us to remind Parker's Mississippi burning, but the best is yet to come when the fury, rage and sick obsession becomes gradually in a true state mind, deeply neurotic and obsesive. His familiar relationship is just sinking; his progresive process isolation is told with superb handle camera.
I recommend this work due its undeniable virtues. Tension, hard to follow story due the merciless argument but plenty of good sequences.
Summary of Paris Trout
Based on a tough and unsparing novel about the nature of racism by Pete Dexter, this TV movie offers strong performances but ultimately can't match the book's power. Dennis Hopper plays Paris Trout, a cruel, angry Southerner who thinks he still lives in the days when white men killed blacks with impunity. So, in pursuit of a debtor, he shoots the man's young sister and mother when they get in his way, assuming the law will forgive him. Instead, modern justice puts him on trial and he winds up with a lawyer (Ed Harris) who truly disdains his client. Moreover, as the lawyer works on the case, he finds himself becoming romantically involved with Paris's abused wife (Barbara Hershey). Harris has a look of suffering that is affecting, while Hershey simmers with both passion and resentment--and Hopper embodies the pure evil of unredeemable bigotry. --Marshall FineDrama VHS Video
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