Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5039036011013
Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
Label: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageItalianOriginal LanguageYiddishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: October 13, 2003
Running Time: 110 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1990-10

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
Arguably the best film by Joel and Ethan Coen, the 1990 Miller's Crossing stars Gabriel Byrne as Tom, a loyal lieutenant of a crime boss named Leo (Albert Finney) who is in a Prohibition-era turf war with his major rival, Johnny Caspar (Jon Polito). A man of principle, Tom nevertheless is romantically involved with Leo's lover (Marcia Gay Harden), whose screwy brother (John Turturro) escapes a hit ordered by Caspar only to become Tom's problem. Making matters worse, Tom has outstanding gambling debts he can't pay, which keeps him in regular touch with a punishing enforcer. With all the energy the Coens put into their films, and all their focused appreciation of genre conventions and rules, and all their efforts to turn their movies into ironic appreciations of archetypes in American fiction, they never got their formula so right as with Miller's Crossing. With its Hammett-like dialogue and Byzantine plot and moral chaos mitigated by one hero's personal code, the film so transcends its self-scrutiny as a retro-crime thriller that it is a deserved classic in its own right. --Tom Keogh




Rating: - Quirky Heartless Story of Quirky Heartless Characters
This is not a great movie.

I watched Blood Simple for the first time a few weeks ago and really enjoyed watching Francis McDermott. She was fantastic in Fargo. Fargo was a great movie with all the right moves, excellent tone, bizarre characters, and a flatly affected but very strong pregnant cop played by McDermott. The Coen brothers are known for their slightly off-kilter films. Raising Arizona with Nicholas Cage and Holly Hunter was a very successful and entertaining quirky movie. ... Read More

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Rating: - Very watchable
This is an entertaining film. The Irish vs Italian gangster storyline gives a nice twist and there is also much more to the storyline than the usual mobster type movie.

The humanity shown by the Gabriel Byrne character is refreshing & the sniveling brother makes your toes curl.

It is quite honestly one of the few films in my collection that I go back to willingly again and again.

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Rating: - Verbose, darkly comic and visually energetic deconstruction of the gangster genre.
As Blood Simple and Raising Arizona had previously done with the respective genre of film-noir and the screwball comedy, Miller's Crossing attempts to do with the American gangster film. Here, the Coen's aren't simply attempting to pastiche the style of Hollywood mob films of the 30's and 40's, but rather, create a customized deconstruction of every single narrative contrivance or characteristic prevalent in those films. Naturally, in keeping with the film's they'd made before (and those that they ... Read More

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Rating: - Is This The Best Film Of The Last 20 Years?
There are plenty of contenders for sure, but Miller's Crossing is the only movie I can think of which is brilliant from start to finish. It's the Coens' best work by an absolute mile, closely followed by the under-rated Barton Fink. Boasting an incredibly smart script, beautiful cinematography, near perfect direction, great set pieces and a gorgeous score by Carter Burwell, it's both deeply serious and highly entertaining at the same time. Also, courtesy of John Turturro, we're treated to one of the ... Read More

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Rating: - It's not Fargo, but worth watching
Though it is highly unlikely that the Coen brothers will ever make a bad movie, this is a three star effort, to Fargo's five.

Miller's crossing has the odd twist, but is on the whole predictable. However, in the movie's favour is some exellent acting (Albert Finney, Jon Polito, John Tuturro, J E Freeman)some marvellous dialogue (Tuturro's Bernie begging for his life, Polito's Caspar in all of his scenes) and beautiful beautiful shots (the scenes out at the woods of Miller's Crossing for ... Read More

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