Among the many lacking Pulp Fiction carbon copies that refuses to realize its surrealistic shortcomings. An exaggerated and aimless mess starving for attention
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05/24/03
2 Days In The Valley (1996)
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Reviews Counted:51
Fresh:32
Rotten:19
Average Rating:6.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: L.A.'s much-vilified San Fernando Valley is the setting for the chaotic goings-on in this multi-plotted comedic thriller featuring a murderous insurance scam perpetrated by sadistic... [More]
Starring: Danny Aiello, Jeff Daniels, Teri Hatcher, Glenne Headly
Director: John Herzfeld
Reviews for 2 Days In The Valley
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05/20/03
A sleek, amusingly nasty screen debut by a film maker whose television credits include an Amy Fisher docudrama.
05/20/03
Top CriticNo review available.
03/23/03
Like its protagonists, it misses the target by inches.
02/24/03
No review available.
12/08/02
An ensemble-cast mishmash of crime and betrayal that manages to work.
11/07/02
This movie isn’t bad for mere entertainment, but it’s overshadowed by other, better movies in the same genre.
08/21/02
Funny, pathetic, sad, absurdist -- writer-director John Herzfeld plays it any number of ways, and makes them all work.
06/18/02
Herzfeld's marriage of dark humor with graphic violence isn't compatible, and his occasional moral statements about cheapened life stick out like sore thumbs.
06/05/02
A somewhat entertaining ride to nowhere in particular.
04/17/02
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04/12/02
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03/24/02
Top Critic2 Days in the Valley is witty and bracing in its own right, and it shouldn't be buried under extraneous comparisons to Pulp Fiction.
02/27/01
There are too many characters, but some are a lot of fun. The tone shifts, from graphic murder to wig-flipping farce, are too extreme, but much of it works.
02/14/01
Top CriticMazursky delivers one of the best lines in the film when he observes, "It's been my observation that losers are more truthful than winners." Amen. Here's to some losers who sometimes get to win.
01/01/01
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01/01/00
Top CriticA tense, heartfelt, funny and sometimes brutal film.
01/01/00
Top CriticSomehow, although this film's unevenness tends to take us out of the action now and then, there's something kind of agreeable about it.
01/01/00
A solid picture that is probably accessible to a wider audience than Pulp Fiction was...
01/01/00
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