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The Hot Spot [DVD] [1990]

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  • Actors: Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly, Charles Martin Smith, William Sadler
  • Directors: Dennis Hopper
  • Writers: Charles Williams, Nona Tyson
  • Producers: Bill Gavin, Deborah Capogrosso, Derek Power, Paul Lewis, Stephen Ujlaki
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: MGM Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 19 May 2003
  • Run Time: 124 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00008YNGR
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 14,338 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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The Hot Spot is best known to lecherous film buffs for Jennifer Connelly's topless scene, but this sultry southern noir deserves more than prurient interest. It's arguably Dennis Hopper's best directorial effort (OK, so that's not saying much), and Charles Williams' source novel Hell Hath No Fury finds Hopper in a comfortable B-movie milieu, riffing on Double Indemnity with an overripe tale of sex, greed and blackmail in an unnamed Texan town. Fresh from the final season of Miami Vice, Don Johnson stars as a shifty drifter, conning his way into a salesman job on a used-car lot, where the boss's insatiable wife (Virginia Madsen) offers him sexual favours and a lovely secretary's (Connelly) innocence is threatened by a percolating scandal. Nobody's really innocent, of course, and Hopper spices this languid web of secrets with enough trashy misbehaviour to qualify The Hot Spot as a bona fide guilty pleasure. --Jeff Shannon


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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Dennis Hopper film, 20 Nov 2008
It is really worth to spend two hours for watching this strong drama. I had seen it before on a French channel and I enjoyed, and I watched it again recently in England and I enjoyed again.

The director Dennis Hopper is known for his film cult 'Easy Rider'. The Hot Spot, as a Film Neo-Noir, is although very different from Easy Rider in its style and its story.

A man drives into a small Texas town that seems to be very quiet. However too many dirty plots of sex, money and murder are happening here and along all the film you will be asking yourself
-'So who is good (if anyone) and who is bad?'
-'Who is right and who is wrong?'
-'Who is reliable and who is not?'.....

This moral ambiguity is one of the characteristics of Film Noir. Another main ingrediants of Film Noir is that, whether 'good' or 'bad', the female characters have in hand the destiny of the male characters.
Enjoy!
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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Awwwww, poor sweet kid., 18 Sep 2008
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Sleazeball, slimeball, bitch and sweet kid, plus supporting cast. Bitch wins. Sweet kid gets hurt.

(It's Jennifer Connelly. She's always lovely.)
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4 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Movie, 13 May 2004
Its just Great. A real stylish film.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Steamy film noir
The hot shot (not to be confused with the hot spot, which is located...well, on the person of Dolly Harshaw, as you'll see) is Harry Madox (Don Johnson) who has just arrived in... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Dennis Littrell

1.0 out of 5 stars A complete waste of time and money...
I have to admit that I bought this dvd for the sole reason that Jennifer Connelly was in it and I have always liked her. Unfortunately, she is a bit of bore in this one. Read more
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