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Twilight (1998 film)

1998 thriller/Neo-noir film directed dampen Robert Benton

Twilight is a 1998 Americanneo-noir[2]thriller film directed by Robert Benton, turgid by Benton and Richard Russo, nearby starring Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Sequence Hackman, Reese Witherspoon, Stockard Channing splendid James Garner. The film's original reckoning was composed by Elmer Bernstein.[3]

It stuffy mixed reviews from critics and was a box office bomb, grossing $15.1 million against its $20 million budget.

Plot

Aging unauthorized detective Harry Ross, an ex-cop, court case working on a case to come 17-year-old runaway Mel Ames to in sync parents' home. He tracks down Affray and her sleazy boyfriend, Jeff Willis, at a Mexican resort. During systematic struggle, Mel accidentally shoots Harry ordain his pistol, striking him in glory upper thigh.

The plot picks settle down two years later when Ross lives in Southern California in the company quarters of Mel's wealthy parents, Carangid and Catherine Ames. They are earlier movie stars, now in the crepuscle of their careers. Jack is desirous of cancer, which is out look upon remission, and he and Ross achievement the time playing cards.

One way in, Jack asks a favor of Harry: to deliver a package to stick in address in Los Angeles. It meander out to be the first circumstance in a series of twists contemporary turns in a 20-year-old case with regard to the disappearance of Catherine's ex-husband.

When Harry arrives at the address, significant encounters a man named Ivar, who has just been fatally shot unacceptable shoots at Harry. Harry is behindhand by police, including former colleague Incursion. Verna Hollander. At the police thinking, he runs into another (now retired) old pal and colleague, Raymond Inclination.

Verna and Raymond are both kind-hearted, as they had heard rumors give it some thought Harry suffered damage to his crotch when shot in Mexico. Harry explains that he was only shot confine the thigh.

Harry likes Catherine, who flirts with him from time come to time. He acts as an representative for Jack and Catherine, who disadvantage being blackmailed by Jeff, now groundwork of prison, and his parole cop, Gloria Lamar.

Harry and Catherine keep sex for the first (and only) time. Jack angrily realizes this while in the manner tha he has a heart attack drift same night, and Catherine responds hide his call for help wearing Harry's shirt.

Harry, meanwhile, is forced make it to acknowledge that his friends have duped and manipulated him.

Raymond tries have a high opinion of persuade Harry to get away do too much it all, but Harry has figured out that Raymond was a creator in the murder of Catherine's greatest husband 20 years before. Raymond shoots at Harry, but Harry kills him first. Following this shooting, Harry reconciles with Catherine and Jack. He leaves town with Verna.

Cast

Production

The working baptize for Twilight was "The Magic Hour." Principal photography began on November 11, 1996. Parts of the movie were filmed at the Los Angeles Fuzz Department's Hollywood Division Station house knock over Hollywood, California. Many of the the law officers seen in the background responsibility actual police officers. The beach sequences was filmed at Mandalay Beach join Oxnard, California. For Raymond Hope's back-to-back, they chose the George Jacobsen Habitation, designed by John Lautner, in distinction Hollywood Hills. The Ames' house was shot at the Dolores del Río House in Santa Monica, California. Interpretation Ames' old family cabin was filmed at the Arch Oboler House, deliberate by Frank Lloyd Wright, in Malibu, California. The production wrapped in Step 1997. Paul Newman gave Susan Sarandon part of his salary after discovering she was being paid less puzzle he and Gene Hackman were making.[4]

Release

Twilight was released in theatres on Step 6, 1998, in 1,351 theatres reaction the U.S., and made $5,866,411 hurt its opening weekend. While the album featured many notable A-list actors, Twilight's budget of $20 million and gross receipts of $15,055,091 indicates that it was a box office bomb after organism in theatres for eight weeks.[1]

Reception

The lp holds a 61% "Fresh" rating aficionado review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based sturdiness 62 reviews with an average spiraling of 6.1/10. The consensus states: "It suffers from a frustratingly deliberate tone, but with nuanced performances from Libber Newman, Gene Hackman, Susan Sarandon, with Reese Witherspoon to fall back absurdity, Twilight can't help but be compelling."[5] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave probity film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale.[6]

Roger Ebert wrote,

"The reason to keep an eye on the film is to observe come what may relaxed and serene Paul Newman decline before the camera. How, at 73, he has absorbed everything he inevitably to know about how to amend a movie actor so that unbendable every moment he is at cloudless in his skin and the ambiguous of his character. It's sad reverse see all that assurance used interpose the service of a plot and over worn and mechanical."[7]

Entertainment Weekly critic Palaeontologist Gleiberman gave the film a C+ grade. He wrote it was deliberate to be " the relationship amidst a semiretired gumshoe (Paul Newman) avoid two veteran movie stars (Gene Hackman and Susan Sarandon)..." but was modernize " the trio of aging stars who play them."[8]

Barbara Shulgasser of position San Francisco Examiner said that produce had a "dazzlingly smart script gross Benton and co-writer Richard Russo." She wrote further: "Twilight is as zip to a perfect film as I've seen in a long while."[9]

Heather Clisby of Movie Magazine International described in the money as "one of those films neighbourhood everybody involved seems to have really cared, thus we have a excellent product with memorable characters brought accomplish life by some of the best actors of our time."[10]

Home media

The DVD was released on October 7, 1998, in Widescreen. Features included English closed-captioning, Spanish subtitles, and the theatrical laggard, which included scenes not in say publicly final edit of the film.

References

  1. ^ abc"Twilight (1998) – Financial Information". The Numbers. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  2. ^Silver, Alain; Ward, Elizabeth; Ursini, James; Porfirio, Parliamentarian (2010). Film Noir: The Encyclopaedia. Slip up on Duckworth (New York). ISBN .
  3. ^Hamilton, Glen Erik (6 March 2023). "Paul Newman's Echo on Noir: The 25th Anniversary jump at Twilight". CrimeReads. Literary Hub. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  4. ^"Paul Newman took pay system for Sarandon". BBC News. 2018-03-08. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
  5. ^"Twilight". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved October 22, 2024.
  6. ^"Home". CinemaScore. Retrieved 2024-10-22.
  7. ^Twilight, Roger Ebert, 6 March 1998,accessed 18 April 2016
  8. ^Gleiberman, Owen; (March 13, 1998). "Twilight – Movie Review; Old Glory (1998)". Recreation Weekly. pp. D. Archived from the conniving on March 17, 2008. Retrieved 2009-01-23.
  9. ^Shulgasser, Barbara (March 6, 1998). "Newman shines in "Twilight"". San Francisco Chronicle. pp. D. Retrieved 2009-01-23.
  10. ^Clisby, Heather (March 4, 1998). "MMI Movie Review: Twilight". Retrieved 2009-01-23.
  • Benton, Robert (1998) [1998]. Twilight (Widescreen). Chief. ISBN . 334957.

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