The Paperboy

The Paperboy bears some promise as a good-bad movie, but it unfolds as a bad-bad one. It's a movie that seems to have a mild form of heatstroke: When it's over, you want to wipe your brow.

Set in the late s, the movie is tactless, shameless and almost proudly seedy. Nevertheless, it is always highly watchable, prone to truly fascinate an audience as it also genuinely appalls them. Efron's performance alone is worth taking a chance on Daniels' otherwise patchy picture.

Ultimately, The Paperboy is to be enjoyed for its ultra-camp performances, so delightfully hammy and over the top that they swiftly become mesmeric. If you like that freaky, perverted feeling of spying on an even bigger freak show, you will find this film both fascinating and horrible to watch. Daniels turns out to be the ideal director for a film about the tendency of desire to turn sane minds to guacamole. It looks and feels like something made in the s but with a sordid quality that makes it so absurdly hilarious in all its filthy nonsense - thanks also to a terrific performance by Nicole Kidman as the trashy Southern blonde, who steals every scene she appears in.

Almost X rated - lots of graphic sex and violence.

This is a very dark film, with people making terrible, tragic choices. Cusak, and McConaughey, were excellent Set in the Jim Crow south during the civil rights movement, this lurid melodrama follows a college dropout as he helps his journalist brother investigate the case of a man who may have been wrongfully imprisoned; a strange love triangle heats up when he falls for the accused's nymphomaniacal death-row-groupie fiancee. The word "trashy" was invented for stories like this; it's as much fun as a stolen hump in the backseat of a Chevy Impala.

The movie begins on a promising note. I felt like it'd be a good thriller drama about a newspaper family conducting an investigation whether a convict on a death row deserves it. But it doesn't take long for the drama and thrills to fall into the contemporaries.

The performances are excellent, though. Otherwise, just another movie based on a novel. I now understand why it's rated 6 on IMDb. I MAY rewrite it properly in leisure.

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With the help of Ward's younger brother Jack Zac Efron and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless Nicole Kidman , the pair tries to prove violent swamp-dweller Hillary Van Wetter John Cusack was framed for the murder of a corrupt local sheriff. Peter Dexter , Lee Daniels.

Matthew McConaughey as Ward Jansen. Zac Efron as Jack Jansen. Nicole Kidman as Charlotte Bless. John Cusack as Hillary Van Wetter. David Oyelowo as Yardley Acheman. Scott Glenn as W. Macy Gray as Anita. Ned Bellamy as Tyree Van Wetter. Nealla Gordon as Ellen Guthrie.

Edrick Browne as Hustler 1. The entire cast of this movie deserves credit for bring life to this Lee Daniels film. I've noticed that some reviewers are giving this a less than glowing review, but in my humble but accurate opinion, this is an excellent piece of film making and should be given it's rightful praise for what it is Enjoy a night in with these popular movies available to stream now with Prime Video.

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