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Dangerous Game (1993)

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Reviews Counted:12

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Rotten:8

Average Rating:4.2/10

Runtime: 2 hrs

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Director Abel Ferrara followed up the triumph of BAD LIEUTENANT with this quasi-autobiographical film. Harvey Keitel stars as Eddie Israel, a director whose current project, MOTHER OF MIRRORS,... Director Abel Ferrara followed up the triumph of BAD LIEUTENANT with this quasi-autobiographical film. Harvey Keitel stars as Eddie Israel, a director whose current project, MOTHER OF MIRRORS, seems parallel his own life (which in turn parallels Ferrara's). The film-within-a-film stars Sarah Jennings (Madonna) and Francis Burns (James Russo) as a married couple whose shared life of cocaine, booze, and group sex has come to an end now that she has renounced her past in favor of God. Drinking heavily and snorting coke to get into his role, Francis finds the violent behavior of his character is taking over his reality, as he starts abusing Sarah off the set as well as on. Eddie meanwhile starts his own affair with Sarah, leading to confrontation with his wife (played by Nancy Ferrara, Abel's real-life wife) and his own moral dissolution. Shot on a variety of film stocks, this search for spiritual redemption--drenched in violence, drugs, and sex--makes for a heavy viewing experience. Regardless of opinion about the film itself, there is no denying the sheer bravery of this unflinching mirror of Ferrara's own life and art. [More]

Starring: Harvey Keitel, Madonna, James Russo, Nancy Ferrara

Starring: Harvey Keitel, Madonna, James Russo, Nancy Ferrara, Victor Argo

Director: Abel Ferrara

Director: Abel Ferrara

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Reviews for Dangerous Game

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05/26/08
David Stratton
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Variety
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One of [Ferrara's] most rewardingly challenging works.

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05/19/06
Nick Schager
Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness

...an uncommonly interminable experience.

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02/23/06
David Nusair
David Nusair
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This twisted little trainwreck is amazing for the fact that it was ever even made.

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01/10/06
Cole Smithey
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07/02/05
Emanuel Levy
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05/06/05
Clint Morris
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More dreadful than dangerous.

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06/05/03
Spyder Darling
Spyder Darling
NY Rock

Dreary drivel from Madonna's "arty" phase

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05/30/03
James Sanford
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Kalamazoo Gazette
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01/29/03
Dragan Antulov
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10/25/02
Christopher Smith
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

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10/15/02
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Had everything going for it, but then never really went anywhere.

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05/12/01
Peter Travers
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone

Among the movie's triumphs is that Madonna actually wakes up and gives a solid, believable performance.

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01/01/00
Rob Gonsalves
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October 03, 2008: Further Reading: Marion Cotillard and Forest Whittaker in Abel Ferrara's Mary
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