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The Quick and the Dead

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Original title

The Quick and the Dead

Year

1995

Running time

105 min.

Country

United States

Director

Sam Raimi

Screenwriter

Simon Moore

Cast

Music

Alan Silvestri

Cinematography

Dante Spinotti

Producer

TriStar Pictures, JBS

Genre

Western. Action | Revenge

Synopsis

Sharon Stone stars as Ellen, a beautiful gunslinger with a cloudy past. She arrives in the town of Redemption with a bone to pick, namely with one John Herod (Gene Hackman), with whom she shares a shady history. Ellen signs up for the annual quick-draw contest, which awards $230,000 to the winner, but her real motivation is revenge. Raimi incorporates beautiful photography and camerawork, and surprising new twists to the familiar spaghetti Western tropes, breathing new life into the genre

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Awards: 1995: Cannes Film Festival: Official Selection (Out of Competition)

1995: Saturn Awards (Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films): nominated to Best Actress.

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Critics' reviews

"Hackman somehow survives the material (...) The same can't be said, alas, for Sharon Stone (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"A rousingly grotesque, often wildly entertaining western horror-comedy"

Michael Wilmington: Chicago Tribune
"Sam Raimi tries to do a Sergio Leone, and though this 1995 feature is highly enjoyable in spots, it doesn't come across as very convincing, perhaps because nothing can turn Sharon Stone into Charles Bronson"

Jonathan Rosenbaum: Chicago Reader
"Despite director Sam Raimi’s hyperstylized efforts to whip up action and laughs, The Quick and the Dead is deeply shallow and damned silly."

Peter Travers: Rolling Stone
The Quick and the Dead is made bearable by director Sam Raimi, who bombards us with frenetic editing (...) But all the stylistic sleight of hand in the world can't hide the central problem: The star is more Dead than Quick"

Desson Howe: The Washington Post
"A perfect fusion of loving genre pastiche and auteur director embracing so much of the recognizable style that made him an icon"

Jim Vorel: Paste Magazine

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