Description (continued...) negligent mother (Edie McClurg), the anomic couple take off on a three-week killing spree across the country, telling everyone who they are so that they get the credit for their crimes. The media are immediately enthralled with the couple, especially Wayne Gale (Robert Downey Jr.), the bloodthirsty host of a tabloid TV show who follows their every move. By the time they're finally arrested, they've become such huge media stars that the cops treat them more like celebrities than criminals. Even the maniacal limelight-hogging warden of the Batongaville State Prison, Dwight McClusky (Tommy Lee Jones), is in awe. Stone pulls out all the stops in the prison riot, as the unwitting Gale becomes an unwilling participant in his own broadcast of the event. Again the director switches from film to video, from color to black and white, from sitcom parody to newsreel parody, and from one film stock to another, hoping to jar the audience out of its complacency with visual hyperbole. Country of Origin: USA Reviews "...The movie is a technical marvel, stunningly photographed..." Rolling Stone | 09/08/1994 | p.83-7 Ranked #1 in Entertainment Weekly's "10 Favorite Films of the '90s" -- "...Fevered genius....[A] hypnotic, revolutionary head trip..." Entertainment Weekly | 04/01/2000 | p.159 "...Stone's vision is impassioned, alarming, visually inventive, characteristically overpowering..." New York Times | 08/26/1994 | p.C1 "...[A] brilliantly outrageous film..." Film Comment | 11/01/1994 | p.80-1 "...[Harrelson and Lewis are] superb at exaggerating the archetypes of cool psychopathology..." Sight and Sound | 03/01/1995 | p.44-5 "...NATURAL BORN KILLERS is like a slap in the face, waking us up to what's happening..." Chicago Sun-Times | 08/26/1994 | p.51 Full Cast and Crew Director: Oliver Stone Starring: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey, Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Sizemore, Rodney Dangerfield Screenwriter: David Veloz Story: Quentin Tarantino Post-Production Supervisor: Bill Brown Release Information ExtraInfo: Oliver Stone Collection Color: B&W and Color Runtime: 182 min. Original Language: English Subtitled Language: English Subtitled Language: French Subtitled Language: Spanish © Warner Home Video DVD Features Region 1 Snap Case Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85 Single Side - Dual Layer Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Additional Release Material: Audio Commentary - 1. Oliver Stone - Director, Deleted Scenes, Alternate Ending, Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical, Documentary - 1. CHAOS RISING Production Notes Theatrical release: August 26, 1994. The prison riot scene took place at the Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill, Illinois--342 maximum security prisoners were cleared to act in the Hollywood riot. The Director's Cut restores footage that was edited from the original release version so it could receive an MPAA R rating. It also includes seven complete scenes that Oliver Stone had voluntarily excised from the movie for its theatrical release. One of these sequences features Ashley Judd as the sister of one of Mickey and Mallory's victims. "'It's such an outrageous story,' [Oliver Stone] said, 'and in the time between oppositioning the film and making it, tremendous things have happened on America's landscape.'"--interviewed by Bernard Weinraub, New York Times, 8/16/1994 "I shoot good violence. I mean, I know I do."--Oliver Stone
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