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River of Grass
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NR,1hr 21min
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1994
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Fox Lorber
Synopsis: River of Grass has all the elements of a conventional road movie: a car, a gun, criminal plans, and young lovers on the run from an angry father who also happens to be a suspended police officer. But writer and director Kelly Reichardt has instead taken these familiar elements and fashioned an anti-road movie, a deadpan film that is more existentialist comedy than crime drama. The young lovers in question are Cozy, the cop's daughter, and Lee Ray, a shady character from the wrong end of town. Lee ... Full Synopsis
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The lovers-on-the-run genre gets a dry, humorous deconstruction in this film by first-time director Kelly Reichardt. Using all the elements of a typical road movie, this story refuses the romantic idealization inherent in such classics as Bonnie and Clyde, instead showing the protagonists in a more realistic light. Displacing the daring femme fatale is Cozy (Lisa Bowman), a housewife and mother who ... Full Review
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Jimmy Ryder
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