Réalisation:
Gus Van SantScénario:
Gus Van SantMusique:
Ben MinkActeurs·trices:
Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, Pat Morita, Angie Dickinson, Keanu Reeves, John Hurt, Rain Phoenix, Ed Begley Jr., Carol Kane, Sean Young (plus)Résumés(1)
Malgré sa silhouette de mannequin et une allure de rêve, Sissy Hankshaw est un monstre : un chromosome facétieux l'a affublé d'un pouce de 25 cm ! Ses parents paniquent, les médecins s'interrogent, mais Sissy s'en moque : c'est décidé, elle deviendra la meilleure auto-stoppeuse des Etats-Unis... (Metropolitan FilmExport)
Critiques (1)
A prime example of a botched adaptation, and I haven't even read the source material. The warring of the cinematic medium with the literary one here reminded me in part of the adaptations of Slaughterhouse 5 and Cronenberg's Naked Lunch, but even those didn't suffer from the relentless literalness, the inability to understand that what sounds possible in a book doesn't sound the same coming from the mouth of a movie character, and the general concepts of how a book is written and how a movie is made. Man, I haven't seen a movie in a long time that failed on so many levels at once. Then there's John Hurt, who just might shit himself...
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