- Format: PAL
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 15
- Studio: Uca Catalogue
- DVD Release Date: 5 Sep 2005
- Run Time: 97 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000A52AJY
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 27,564 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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Private detective Easy Rawlins has been caught on the wrong side of the most dangerous secret in town...
It's 1948 and Los Angeles is booming, but Easy Rawlins (Denzel Washington) has seen better days. He has just been fired and his house payments are due, so when DeWitt Albright (Tom Sizemore - Saving Private Ryan) offers him a seemingly harmless job he jumps at the chance. All he has to do is track down the elusive Daphne Monet (Jennifer Beals - The L Word), a mysterious beauty known to keep company on the wrong side of town. Soon he finds himself implicated in two murders and is forced to call upon an old friend, Mouse (Don Cheadle - Ocean's Twelve), who is all too familiar with the violent world Easy has landed himself in. Slowly drawn deeper and deeper into a web of blackmail, dirty cops and even dirtier politicians, the ways out for Easy become harder and harder to find...
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
It's 1948 in Los Angeles and Easy Rawlins (Denzel Washington) is out of work, short of cash and late with a couple of house payments. He's offered $100 to find a woman named Daphne Monet, who is the missing girl friend of a candidate for Los Angeles mayor, a candidate who has just withdrawn from the race. Then people start to die and Easy gets set up for the fall unless he can quickly find out what's going on. To help him, he calls on a long-time friend named Mouse Alexander (Don Cheadle). With Mouse around, the bodies really start piling up. "You told me not to shoot him. I didn't. I choked him. If you ain't want me to kill him, why'd you leave him with me?" Mouse asks reasonably at one point.
The movie is based on the book by Walter Mosely. It has a great noir look about it of black life in forties L.A. -- bars, after hours jazz clubs, motels, street life, family life. It also has violence, race and racism, police who'd just as soon convict a black man as look at him, politics and political corruption.
There's strong acting by all the members of the cast. Washington brings his typical integrity and likeability to Easy, and Don Cheadle almost steals the show. Mouse is quick to kill, basically a psycho, but a great friend to have. Also noteworthy is Tom Sizemore as a ruthless, cold-blooded bad guy.
I've read somewhere that if the movie had done well Washington, Mosely and Franklin were planning to film another of the Easy Rawlins books. The movie didn't do too well and the financing evaporated. Too bad; the movie is excellent and the sequels might have been. The books are excellent, too. The DVD looks great.
The movie is based on the book by Walter Mosely. It has a great noir look about it of black life in forties L.A. -- bars, after hours jazz clubs, motels, street life, family life. It also has violence, race and racism, police who'd just as soon convict a black man as look at him, politics and political corruption.
There's strong acting by all the members of the cast. Washington brings his typical integrity and likeability to Easy, and Don Cheadle almost steals the show. Mouse is quick to kill, basically a psycho, but a great friend to have. Also noteworthy is Tom Sizemore as a ruthless, cold-blooded bad guy.
I've read somewhere that if the movie had done well Washington, Mosely and Franklin were planning to film another of the Easy Rawlins books. The movie didn't do too well and the financing evaporated. Too bad; the movie is excellent and the sequels might have been. The books are excellent, too. The DVD looks great.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Devil In a Blue Dress is a great piece of pulp noir, detective fiction that is based on the other side of the tracks to such films as Chinatown or LA Confidential. The feel and plot work effortlessly to pull you in to the story's world and the acting is exceptional across the board, with special mention going to Don Cheadle for his amazing portrayal of the happily psychotic Mouse.
Fans of Walt Mosley's original book need not fret, because thought condensed, the film is a faithful and engaging adaptation.
Fans of Walt Mosley's original book need not fret, because thought condensed, the film is a faithful and engaging adaptation.
I found Devil in a blue dress a good film; the casting is very good and the two leads, Denzil Washington and Jennifer Beals make this film memorable. The late forties are very well recreated in the selected streets, the period vehicles, the clothing and the hairstyles. I felt the film needs some concentration so the plot can be followed, so four stars not five.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Solid Detective Story with a Touch of Romance
"Devil in a Blue Dress," (1995). This 101 minute, full-color mystery/thriller/neo-noir is set in 1948 Los Angeles. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Stephanie DePue
not new
Disappointed in this as it was advertised as new and when it arrived it clearly was not. 'Bonnie and Clyde' appropriate name as I feel suitably deceived and robbed.
Published 8 months ago by sebbie
Film Review
I bought the DVD as I like Denzil Washington as an actor and he very rarely is in a bad film. If you are into serious film reviews there are several in depth professional reviews... Read more
Published 21 months ago by DGNB
Doesn't quite hit the spot
Easy Rawlins, a cash-strapped black WW2 veteran in 1948 Los Angeles, becomes an accidental private eye in this heavily over-produced period drama set against L.A. Read more
Published on 9 Jun 2008 by OEJ
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