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2 Days in the Valley

Actor(s): Danny Aiello, Greg Cruttwell, Jeff Daniels, James Spader, Teri Hatcher
Director(s): John Herzfeld
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Movie Details

MPAA Rating: R
Content Advisory: Violence, Nudity, Not For Children, Sexual Situations
Movie Release: 1996
DVD Release: 12/30/1997
Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
Audio Tracks: English, French
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Number of Discs: 1
Run Time: 1 hrs 45 mins
Studio: HBO Home Video
Total Copies: 20
Genres: Crime, Crime Comedy, Ensemble Film, Police Detective Film
See Also: 2 Days in the Valley, 2 Days in the Valley [Widescreen]

DVD Synopsis

A variety of crooks, losers, and working stiffs living in the shadow of Hollywood find their various personal crises overlapping in this intricately woven melodrama. Lee Woods (James Spader) is a cold-blooded hit man and Dosmo Pizzo (Danny Aiello) a soft-at-heart gangster; they've been sent to murder Roy Foxx (Peter Horton), the former husband of also-ran Olympic skier Becky Foxx (Teri Hatcher). Lee's girlfriend Helga (Charlize Theron) is unhappy about his habit of killing people, and she attracts the attention of Alvin (Jeff Daniels) and Wes (Eric Stoltz), two cops who've been put on vice detail but don't have the heart to bust the prostitute they've been trailing. Alvin dreams of becoming a homicide detective, so when he discovers that he might be on the trail of a murder, it's like Santa Claus showed up in mid-July to hand him a present. Dosmo manages to escape the crime scene, only to foil a murder attempt by Lee, forcing him to hide out in the home of Hopper, a pretentious English art dealer (Greg Cruttwell), whom Dosmo holds hostage along with Hopper's long-suffering assistant, Susan (Glenne Headly). In the midst of all this, a down-on-his-luck television director (Paul Mazursky) contemplates suicide (the main stumbling block is finding someone to take care of his dog) while also being pestered by an actor with equally bad luck (Austin Pendleton) and meeting a compassionate nurse (Marsha Mason) on a visit to a cemetery. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Actors

Danny Aiello - Dosmo Pizzo
Greg Cruttwell - Hopper,Allan
Jeff Daniels - Alvin Strayer
James Spader - Lee Woods
Teri Hatcher - Becky Foxx
Glenne Headly - Susan Parish
Charlize Theron - Helga Svelgen

Editorial Review of DVD

John Herzfeld's quirky crime comedy 2 Days in the Valley comes to DVD with a widescreen transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. An English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital 5.1, while a French soundtrack has been recorded in Dolby Digital Surround. There are no subtitles, but the English soundtrack is closed-captioned. Supplemental materials include biographies of the large cast, and a theatrical trailer. This is a by-the-numbers HBO/Rysher release that will satisfy fans of the film, but will not bring it any new adherents. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

Member Movie Reviews

Frank E. (realartist) from HENDERSONVLLE, NC wrote on 12/29/2008...

1 of 1 member(s) found this review helpful.

Another perfect crime becomes inordinately complex as all your favorite actors appear in the film somehow subtly connected\intertwined with the plotters and schemers in this seamless caper. Danny Aiello, of course, to add the Sicilian component; James Spader - of the huge law office hit on TV (with Captain Kirk-who is not in this one, although he'd be perfect )
James Spader plays the icy cold calculating trigger man...triggering far more washed up Hollywood writers and directors than he originally planned...Jeff Daniels, recent divorcee gone slightly bonkers and kicked off the detective fore...leaving a naive aspiring detective who finds himself dangerously close to the serial shootings.. catching a few of the numerous flying lead slugs himself...and Teri Hatcher of Desperate Housewives thrown in the "steamy affair and plot gone awry over the huge bundle of cash mix". Almost funny...but not quite what a sane person would call amusing. It does keep you tuned if for no other reason than to see if anyone even remotely good can emerge victorious at all from this ever steepening slide into moral oblivion-something we have all come to expect as normal behavior in the LA region.