Search and Destroy
1995 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Dunne heads a cast of Hollywood's coolest in this self-consciously hip adaptation of the Broadway play about a Florida film producer, at odds with the IRS, who tries to orchestrate a movie deal based on the writings of an eccentric new-age guru (Hopper), the financing of a commodities/cocaine dealer (Walken) and the underworld contacts of a speed-freak yuppie (Turturro). Possessed by moments of articulate insights, painter-turned-artist Salle's work is not altogether successful, relying too much on the gratuitously weird nature of the characters and situations to sustain it; rather than allowing his marvelous ensemble to breathe life into it.
Direction David Salle
Cast Griffin Dunne · Rosanna Arquette · Dennis Hopper · Christopher Walken · John Turturro · Ethan Hawke · Martin Scorsese · Illeana Douglas
Soundtrack Elmer Bernstein
Screenplay Michael Almereyda · Howard Korder
Cinematography Bobby Bukowski · Michael Spiller
Original title Search and Destroy
4.8
55 votes (FilmAffinity)
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