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2 Days In The Valley

Year:1996
Country:  USA
Language:English
Genre:Comedy, Crime, Drama
IMDB:IMDB Page
Rating:7.3  Rate
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Community: 9 Have Seen, 1 Wishlist


DirectorJohn Herzfeld
Selected CastTeri Hatcher as Becky Foxx
 Jeff Daniels as Alvin Strayer
 Danny Aiello as Dosmo Pizzo
 James Spader as Lee Woods
 Eric Stoltz as Wes Taylor
 Charlize Theron as Helga Svelgen
 Glenne Headly as Susan Parish
 Peter Horton as Roy Foxx
 Marsha Mason as Audrey Hopper
 Paul Mazursky as Teddy Peppers
 Greg Cruttwell as Allan Hopper
 Keith Carradine as Detective Creighton
 Louise Fletcher as Evelyn
 Austin Pendleton as Ralph Crupi
 Lawrence Tierney as Older Man
 Michael Jai White as Buck


On DVD & Blu-ray World

VHS

2 Days In The Valley - HBO Home Video - USA (1997)
VHS

2 Days In The Valley - MVC Multi Video Center - Bulgaria (1996)
VHS

Två Dagar I LA - Egmont Film - Sweden


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Magic Marmalade
23rd Apr 2020
 Rated 9/10
This felt, at the time (to me at least), to be one of the films quietly cashing in on the still then new "Tarantino style"...

...And as such, felt a bit of a pale imitation. But over the years, it's really grown on me, having a warmth in the characters lacking in some of Tarantino's movies.

It's based around a murder plot, that draws all the characters together and is an excuse for a light hearted (occasionally violent) comedic drama... A lot like a Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia, Crash etc.) Movie, being driven, as it is , by disparate characters converging around this premise... but not perhaps, as draining, or serious.

James Spader gives the full creepy eighties villain he made his name with originally, and Teri Hatcher was fresh out of Superman tv series, using it, as I recall as her platform for a stellar movie career (ahem)... but also....

"who's that steely blonde girl with the supermodel looks who steals a scene or two along the way...Charlize... erm... Theron, or something... never heard of her, and I doubt she'll amount to much!"

(we thought, at the time :)

Eric Stoltz, Danny Aiello and Jeff Daniels, give reliably excellent performances too.

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