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Palmetto (Widescreen/Full Screen)

Woody Harrelson (Actor), Elisabeth Shue (Actor), Volker Schlöndorff (Director) | Rated: R (Restricted) | Format: DVD
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)

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With a foreigner's revitalizing influence, German director Volker Schlondorff turns this standard potboiler (based on the novel Just Another Sucker by British pulp writer James Hadley Chase) into a beguiling exercise in genre classicism. Woody Harrelson stars as a former journalist, just released from serving two years on a trumped-up charge, who is drawn into a troublesome mock-extortion scheme by the scheming wife (Elisabeth Shue) of a dying Florida millionaire. The movie's got style to spare and plenty of humid Florida atmosphere, but it's built on a series of improbable developments and is too low-key to generate riveting momentum. But Schlondorff occupies this tawdry territory with a keen sense of necessary mood and pace, maintaining adequate internal logic and awareness of the story's vintage roots. Subplots involving Shue's stepdaughter (Chloë Sevigny) and Harrelson's girlfriend (Gina Gershon) provide enjoyable distractions from the story's implausibilities. The movie's better suited to the fertile pulp mills of cable TV. But with an absurdly twisting plot to hold your interest, it's fun to watch how Schlondorff builds a bridge between traditional film noir and a more contemporary approach to sultry intrigue. --Jeff Shannon

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad,not great,but not bad;Harrelson leaves Cheers behind, Dec 1 2003
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This review is from: Palmetto (VHS Tape)
For those who thought that Woody Harrelson could only play a dense barman on Cheers, they're in for a shock. The guy can halfway act. Harrelson has plenty of trouble(s) with three women in this movie. There's a lot of intrigue, suggestive sex, and other standard fare in this movie. The women are ok, though they are more suggestive than revealing, especially Shue; who, if she ever decides to get "revealing" in a movie has a pretty decent body for it, as well as Gershon, who has, and the other one, Sevigny (I think I'm spelling her name right). Not bad, not great, but not bad. Worth a look.
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5.0 out of 5 stars IT COULDN'T BE BETTER !, May 2 2003
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This review is from: Palmetto (Widescreen/Full Screen) (DVD)
And no one could play it better then Woody Harrelson
The plot is very good.It's simply a cult movie though underrated.Also, Eliszabeth Shue was soooo hot.It'll be a great loss, if you miss this flick!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sure to be a "Cult Classic", Sep 23 2002
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Albert Shanks (Lexington, Kentucky (USA)) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Palmetto (Widescreen/Full Screen) (DVD)
20 years from now there will be movies that we'll want to watch and then there will be the other 99 percent. I think that this movie, at least for Elizabeth Shue and Woody Harrelson will go down as one of they're more entertaining films.
I've always wondered what Woody thinks of this movie? If anybody knows write a review and stick it in there.
And thanks to Cinemax for giving this movie the kind of play it deserves.
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