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The Hot Spot [DVD] [1990]
enlarge	Director: Dennis Hopper Actors: Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly, Charles Martin Smith, William Sadler Studio: MGM Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£12.99~~ Buy New: £2.66 as of 23/11/2009 02:14 GMT details You Save: £10.33 (80%) New (8) from £2.66 Seller: fastdvd2006 Rating: 5 reviews Sales Rank: 10594 Format: PAL Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Region: 2 Discs: 1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 124 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5050070009712 ASIN: B00008YNGR Theatrical Release Date: October 12, 1990 Release Date: May 19, 2003 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review IThe Hot Spot/I is best known to lecherous film buffs for Jennifer Connelly's topless scene, but this sultry southern noir deserves more than prurient interest. It's arguably Dennis Hopper's best directorial effort (OK, so that's not saying much), and Charles Williams' source novel IHell Hath No Fury/I finds Hopper in a comfortable B-movie milieu, riffing on IDouble Indemnity/I with an overripe tale of sex, greed and blackmail in an unnamed Texan town. Fresh from the final season of IMiami Vice/I, Don Johnson stars as a shifty drifter, conning his way into a salesman job on a used-car lot, where the boss's insatiable wife (Virginia Madsen) offers him sexual favours and a lovely secretary's (Connelly) innocence is threatened by a percolating scandal. Nobody's Ireally/I innocent, of course, and Hopper spices this languid web of secrets with enough trashy misbehaviour to qualify IThe Hot Spot/I as a bona fide guilty pleasure. --IJeff Shannon/I

Customer Reviews: A Dennis Hopper film November 20, 2008 Cinephile Man (Sheffield) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful It is really worth to spend two hours for watching this strong drama. I had seen it before on a French channel and I enjoyed, and I watched it again recently in England and I enjoyed again. br / br /The director Dennis Hopper is known for his film cult 'Easy Rider'. The Hot Spot, as a Film Neo-Noir, is although very different from Easy Rider in its style and its story. br / br /A man drives into a small Texas town that seems to be very quiet. However too many dirty plots of sex, money and murder are happening here and along all the film you will be asking yourself br /-'So who is good (if anyone) and who is bad?' br /-'Who is right and who is wrong?' br /-'Who is reliable and who is not?'..... br / br /This moral ambiguity is one of the characteristics of Film Noir. Another main ingrediants of Film Noir is that, whether 'good' or 'bad', the female characters have in hand the destiny of the male characters. br /Enjoy! br / Great Movie May 13, 2004 4 out of 29 found this review helpful Its just Great. A real stylish film. Steamy film noir July 3, 2009 Dennis Littrell (SoCal) The hot shot (not to be confused with the hot spot, which is located...well, on the person of Dolly Harshaw, as you'll see) is Harry Madox (Don Johnson) who has just arrived in Podunk, Texas. What he's hot about is selling used cars and bedding floosies. He scans the small town scene to see what's available. He's a hunk with a gift of the macho and an ability to move clunkers off the lot. What he finds is the used car lot of George Harshaw (Jerry Hardin) in need of a salesman. George has a bad heart and a young and sexy wife, the aforementioned Dolly Harshaw (Virginia Madsen, who once played in a movie called "Zombie High" or "The High School that Ate My Brain"). She's a woman who always gets what she wants, and once she sets her rapacious eyes on Harry, Harry is what she wants. br / br /Harry has other plans however. There's this bank in town that he just happens into as there's a fire going down the street. The bank is wide open and there's nobody there but this blind old black guy and the bank manager. Seems that the surveillance system isn't working and what's more all the tellers are off fighting the fire because they all belong to the volunteer fire department. This gives Harry ideas. br / br /One more complication. Doing the books for George is Gloria Harper (Jennifer Connelly at 19) looking about as tasty as pie a la mode and as ripe as a peach about to fall off the tree. Harry soon discovers that she is as sweet as Tupelo honey and nearly as innocent as a small town girl can be with one strange problem. It seems that a country degenerate named Frank Sutton (William Sadler) has got some kind of hold on her. br / br /So what we have here is a setting for film noir circa 1990 done up in color with a lot of upper body and tail end nudity and plenty of steamy sex. Will Harry pull off the bank job and retire to the Caribbean? Or will he put on George's shoes and service the very serviceable Mrs. H? Or will he succumb to the charms of Gloria? Or will he end up afoul of the local law or meet foul play at the hands of Frank Sutton? Stay tuned. I know I did even though this is not exactly a masterpiece. br / br /Top three reasons to see this diversion are: br / br /(1) Virginia Madsen, who is as hot as the barrel of an AK-47 as it unloads with a mind devious enough to delight the devil himself. br / br /(2) Jennifer Connelly, who is pretty enough to awaken the libido of the dead. br / br /(3) The nice twist at the end in which we learn that life has a certain perverse logic to it, proving that the hero may not get what he wants, but hey, things could be worse. br / br /I guess I should also mention the direction of Dennis Hopper who has garnered over 200 film credits in a career going back to the fifties. Can you believe he played in the classic teen angst film Rebel Without a Cause from 1955? Here he just panders shamelessly to the prurient interest of the audience while moving the action along at a spritely pace. br / br /One problem for today's sophisticated viewer: beware of being overcome with a constant stream of cigarette smoke. I mean, did the tobacco industry front the cash for this? Awwwww, poor sweet kid. September 18, 2008 Mr. Chris Newman 1 out of 3 found this review helpful Sleazeball, slimeball, bitch and sweet kid, plus supporting cast. Bitch wins. Sweet kid gets hurt. br / br /(It's Jennifer Connelly. She's always lovely.) A complete waste of time and money... June 21, 2009 Brannstrom Goran (Sweden) I have to admit that I bought this dvd for the sole reason that Jennifer Connelly was in it and I have always liked her. Unfortunately, she is a bit of bore in this one. Don Johnson can usually hold his own as long as he can do his usual stereotype Miami Vice character, and luckily for him, this movie does not call for him do anything out of the ordinary. br / br /I don't think I'm the only one who was suckered into buying this movie by the promise of good-looking actresses or actor, and thinking that as long as the script has some kind of plot that makes you go "Gee, what will happen next?" it should be worth my time. But it does not. br / br /It takes at least an hour before you even recognize the semblance of a plot, and in the end it's too little and too late. Not even Jennifer Connelly can make up for a script this bad. So, if you are only desperate to see Connelly in a bikini, save time and money and use Google instead.

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