The nearest town, Superior, is three miles away, so he makes a U-turn and heads on in.Īnd the nightmare begins _ a twisted ride during which we see Billy Bob Thornton play Twister with himself, Joaquin Phoenix eat a bus ticket and Nick Nolte do his very best Lee Marvin impression. He is adept, as always, at making America his collective therapist, and millions will absorb his angst as he chronicles a few days in the life of a hapless visitor to the washed-out desert town of Superior, Ariz.īobby Cooper (Sean Penn), armed with a duffel bag full of cash, just wants to get to Vegas to pay off a debt when his red ``1964 1/2″ Mustang breaks down on a blistering, cracked Arizona highway. Stone has been quoted as saying he wanted to make a movie that wouldn’t be reviewed in the editorial pages as ``JFK,″ ``Nixon″ and ``Natural Born Killers″ were, and ``U-Turn″ will probably succeed. That said, the best art of any age typically comes from the dysfunctional artist, and ``U-Turn″ is just that _ Stone’s oddball glimpse into a shadow America that no one wants to believe exists but that undoubtedly does. Let’s make one thing clear from the outset_ something much of movie-viewing America undoubtedly already knows: Oliver Stone, it’s evident, needs a therapist.
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