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Synopsis: U Turn is a 1997 modern western neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Oliver Stone, and based on the book Stray Dogs by John Ridley. It stars Sean Penn, Billy Bob Thornton, Jennifer Lopez, Jon Voight, Powers Boothe, Joaquin Phoenix, Claire Danes and Nick Nolte.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
54
Rotten Tomatoes:
60%
R
Year:
1997
125 min
680 Views


BOBBY (rewinds his watch)

What time is it now?

DARRELL:

Twenty-after-ten.

BOBBY:

Jesus. Twenty-after-ten and it must be

ninety already.

DARRELL:

Ninety-two. Course half hour from now

might be seventy-two. These clouds move

around a lot.

Bobby wipes the bandaged hand across his forehead.

DARRELL:

What happened to your hand?

Self-consciously Bobby quickly drops his hand to his side.

BOBBY:

Accident.

DARRELL:

You got to be more careful. Hands is

important. Let me show you something. When

I was a kid, now I don't know if you can

still see it, but I gashed my fingers in a

lawnmower.

BOBBY:

I'm very interested in this but is there

someplace...

DARRELL:

Diner up a piece. Not much, but us simple

folk like it.

BOBBY:

I'll be back in a couple of hours. And be

careful with her, will you?

Darrell slams down the hood.

DARRELL:

Just a car.

Bobby reaches into the car, pulls out a small ugly gym bag which

he slings onto his shoulder and moves to the trunk, pops it open.

BOBBY:

It's not just a car. It's a sixty-four and

half Mustang convertible. That's the

difference between you and me, and why you

live here and I'm just passing through.

The trunk lid rises in the air, partially blocking Bobby from

Darrell, acting as a partition between them.

BOBBY:

Now do you mind? I got to get some stuff

out of the trunk.

He throws the car key to Darrell who takes the hint, spits

grotesquely into the dirt, scratches his nuts, and walks back

to the shack.

Concealed by the trunk lid, Bobby pulls out a GUN (a .9mm black

Baretta), wrapped in a t-shirt, from the top of the bag. Perhaps

we see a flash of green money, lots of it. Sports pages and

betting sheets are piled inside. With a look around, Bobby takes

the gun and stashes it underneath the rubber mat in the trunk.

Briefly we notice a towing ROPE under the mat. There is a small

travel bag, from which he peels a fresh bottle of Percodan,

quickly taking two, as well as the sports page.

INT. HARLIN'S GARAGE - DAY

DARRELL watches out of the darkened office through the front

window, as BOBBY slams the trunk and starts walking down the

road, with the bag on his shoulder.

EXT. DESERT ROAD - LATER

BOBBY walks along a dusty patch of road into town past a sign

saying "SUPERIOR - HOME OF THE GOLDEN DOOR RETIREMENT

COMMUNITY." As he walks on, a pair of MOTORCYCLERS roar past on

their Harleys blanketing him in a cloud of DUST. He shouts

after them, but his words are lost under the whine of the cycle

engines.

EXT. SUPERIOR MAIN STREET - DAY

BOBBY hits town, such as it is: The Freeway left here a few

years back. There are only a few little stores: A general

store, a catalog outlet, a post office that doubles as a bus

depot. All of them built for the desert heat. The busiest spot

in town seems to be the truckstop/diner with a few 18 wheelers

parked outside it.

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John Ridley

John Ridley IV (born October 1965) is an American screenwriter, film director, novelist, and showrunner, known for 12 Years a Slave, for which he won an Academy Award in 2013 for Best Adapted Screenplay. more…

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