Hurlyburly

1998

Comedy / Drama

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 65% · 37 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 65% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 10734 10.7K

based on play or musical hollywood

Plot summary

A group of actors and their casting agents try to find a direction in their lives whilst coming to terms with their personal problems and relationship conflicts.

Director

Anthony Drazan Photo
Anthony Drazan

Top cast

Garry Shandling Photo
Garry Shandling as Artie
Sean Penn Photo
Sean Penn as Eddie
Robin Wright Photo
Robin Wright as Darlene
David Fabrizio Photo
David Fabrizio as Store Manager
720p.WEB
1.1 GB
1280*690
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
25 fps
2 hr 2 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by frankie_machine1 7 / 10

Stream of consciousness

If you are in the mood to watch a play turned into a film, much like, "My dinner with Andre", this is the movie for you.This is definitely a PLAY written for the screen. Most of the reviews I read here kept using a particular word to describe this film. WORDY. In my humble opinion, that is because the writer wrote the play and wrote the screenplay for this film.This film is also written in a style most of the reviewers never mentioned, mainly because I dont think they have ever heard of it. Most haven't. Mainly because it is definitely not the style of writing someone would normally use for a film. It is called STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS writing. You start with one thought and go, naturally letting your mind just take the reigns and not stopping, no punctuation, just words.That is this film. Just lots and lots of words. Maybe if they had chosen someone other than the guy that wrote the play, to write the screenplay, maybe it would have been more palatable.
Reviewed by Robbo-7 6 / 10

What a Cast!

Hey, it's another movie about nihilism run amok in Hollyweird! Without the powerhouse cast this movie would be unwatchable, but with the likes of Sean Penn, Kevin Spacey, Chazz Palminteri and Gary Shandling(!) menacing the screen, how can you say no? Meg Ryan finally gets to play the hooker with the heart of gold and pulls it off nicely. And little Anna Paquin (The Piano & Flyaway Home) is maturing, er, well, never mind (she doesn't actually show anything...).Penn is to the "way-too-wired sleaze-bag" what De Niro is to the "Mafia hood," and I guess this is his Godfather II. The movie makes men look as ridiculous as ever, but then aren't we?!? As in real life, women fare only slightly better...
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