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Detour
The movie tells the story of law student and basically nice guy Harper, who falls into the bad company of Johnny and his stripper girlfriend Cherry during a drunken binge at a bar. Harper then is offered to kill his stepfather, whom he feels is responsible for the accident that sent his mother into a coma.
14 November 1971
7 March 1992, London, England, UK
12 December 1978, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
26 December 1961, Corrinshego, Newry, Northern Ireland, UK
11 October 1969, Brentwood, Essex, England, UK
29 July 1972, Johannesburg, South Africa
March1948, Kampala, Uganda
30 September 1973, Toronto, Canada
13 March 1990, New York City, New York, USA
11 November 1996, Elkhart, Texas, USA
28 June 1980, Cape Town, South Africa
January 26, 2017
Swiftly paced and imaginative with narrative gamesmanship, but it's also nail-biting stuff.January 25, 2017
The film's gimmick is well-orchestrated and engaging, but it's weighed down by too many contrivances and too much unnecessary pastiche.April 24, 2017
If "Detour" appears a touch too familiar for its own good at times, director Christopher Smith puts enough of his own stamp on the material to give the story a fresh, devious urgency.January 19, 2017
Detour is just film-school-ish synthesis, right down to the cinematography-midterm shot lit through venetian blinds and the anachronistic analog static on the motel room TV ...May 09, 2017
If Detour's setup is over-familiar, the execution is pleasingly novel, while its central trio of archetypes prove as unpredictable as the plot.January 18, 2017
This surprisingly satisfying neo-noir thriller borrows a few pages from "Sliding Doors."January 20, 2017
Even with three of the big screen's most dynamic up-and-comers at its center, there's no flesh and blood beneath all the posturing.February 27, 2017
in flirting with the parallel plotting of Sliding Doors (1998), Detour not only finds graphic ways of highlighting its character's moral choices, but also exposes those choices as an illusion in a world of dumb luck.January 19, 2017
All the artfully composed shots, hinky situations and extra conceptual surprises can't make this "Detour" all that compelling beyond its crisp artifice.May 10, 2017
The masterstroke for Detour is in the casting. These young, incredibly talented actors are electrifying.January 21, 2017
Neither narrative is particularly compelling, but the road trip one has an edge, because travel's always fun.