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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Not For Children, Profanity, Substance Abuse, Sexual Situations Movie Release: 1998 DVD Release: 07/27/1999 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hrs 3 mins Studio: New Line Home Video Total Copies: 3 Genres: Drama, Psychological Drama, Showbiz Drama, Urban Drama

David Rabe's popular play of Hollywood immorality and decadence is brought to the big screen by director Anthony Drazan and an all-star cast that includes Sean Penn, Robin Wright-Penn, Kevin Spacey, Meg Ryan, Chazz Palminteri, Garry Shandling, and Anna Paquin. The film is set in the Hollywood Hills and tells the story of Eddie (Penn) a drinking-smoking-snorting-womanizing casting director and his philandering partner-roommate Mickey (Spacey). Along with their buddies Artie and Phil, they sit around and pontificate about the meaning of life -- that is, the meaning of their lives, of which there is very little. Eddie is in love with Darlene (real-life wife Wright Penn), but she is also seeing the married Mickey. When Artie brings Eddie and Mickey a "care package" in the shape of a pretty, disillusioned hitchhiker named Donna (Paquin), they take turns throwing her around until, yet again, their own empty pathetic lives preoccupy their paranoid minds. As people and relationships deteriorate everywhere, the guys try to pick Phil by giving him the gift of a washed-up exotic dancer, Bonnie (Ryan). Of course she ends up just more abused than ever as she and the rest of the gang hit rock bottom. ~ Arthur Borman, All Movie Guide

Sean Penn - Eddie
Kevin Spacey - Mickey
Robin Wright Penn - Darlene
Chazz Palminteri - Phil
Garry Shandling - Artie

=Hurlyburly comes in a widescreen anamorphic picture format with a 1.85:1 aspect ratio and the following sound/audio features: English (Dolby Digital 5.1) and English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), with subtitles available only in English. Picture quality is very sharp, the coloring natural, and the contrasts clear; sound quality is sharp in places but mono in others, although the music comes through clearly enough. Special or bonus features include the following: an audio commentary by director Anthony Drazan and writer David Rabe; another commentary by Sean Penn, David Rabe, composer David Baerwald, and social commentator Janet Brown; some production notes; and the usual original theatrical trailers. ~ Craig Chalquist, All Movie Guide