Underneath Steven Soderbergh Digital Life VHS

Underneath
starring: Peter Gallagher, Elisabeth Shue, Alison Elliott, William Fichtner, Adam Trese
directed by: Steven Soderbergh

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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303703411
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6303703410
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Release Date: May 14, 1996
Running Time: 99 minutes
Sales Rank: 51841
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: April 28, 1995

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Whereas most movie remakes are straightforward updates of older (and usually better) movies, this 1994 crime drama tries to revitalize an old story with a few tricks of its own. Using the 1949 film noir thriller Criss Cross as his primary inspiration, director Steven Soderbergh takes a different, stylistically adventurous approach to the story of a habitual screwup (Peter Gallagher) who returns to Austin, Texas, for his mother's wedding and tries to pick up where he left off. He left a lot of people angry at him, including his abandoned wife (Alison Elliott) and some book-makers looking for payment on old debts. He concocts a robbery scheme after taking a job with an armored car company, and from that point forward Underneath lives up to its title, using multiple flashbacks to relay the story of a man who slips below the border of propriety and gets himself into all kinds of trouble. Although it's too low-key to generate consistent excitement, the movie draws you in with its intriguing plot and characters, and the flashback structure keeps you guessing about what will happen next. Not a great film by any means, but in hindsight it can be viewed as valuable preparation for Soderbergh's highly underrated 1998 thriller Out of Sight. --Jeff Shannon

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- underrated classic from director soderburgh......
style over substance wins out at the end of this classic, but the performances are excellent and easily overcomes this problem. a remake of "criss cross", this is twist upon backstabbing twist until finally everbody is turning secretly against each other. mind you, it is slowmoving yet atmospheric.
it seduces you into its neon lit world and brings into one hell of a story. confusing at times since it flashbacks from past to present continously, it always manages to stay intense. alison elliott is amazing as the coldhearted, icy girlfriend. ["The Spitfire Grill" is another film starred in, also a good movie].

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- The underneath: naked mistakes
As the film opens, Michael Chambers is returning home to Austin, Texas where his widowed mother is about to remarry. He seems weary, uneasy and at a weird, guarded simmer; but, then, so does everyone else--none of whom is particularly happy to see him. As we piece together his past, we eventually learn that Michael had been a gambler, had placed bets he couldn't cover and when it came time to pay, had left town, his wife and his family. Home again, Michael tries to sit quiet and impassive about the house until a swell of memories force him to see his former wife, Rachel. He does so in the worst of all possible settings--the club owned by her boyfriend and menace-incarnate, Tommy Dundee. Tommy is immediately suspicious and instantly scary. It isn't long before he finds them in what he seems to want to be a confirmation of his suspicions, a position of deadly compromise. But Michael, in an attempt to divert Tommy's ... Read More

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- An Underrated Early Soderbergh Film
I watched "Underneath" again last evening. What a great, truly underrated film.

Michael Chambers (Peter Gallagher) is the black sheep of his family. He returns home to Austin, Texas, for his mother's wedding to her boyfriend, Ed Dutton (Paul Dooley). Ed is a driver for an armored car service and thinks that his boss, Clay (Joe Don Baker) might just have a job for him. Michael immediately runs into his old girlfriend, Rachel (Allison Elliot). Rachel has hooked up with a bar owner, Tommy Dundee (William Fichtner). The old attraction between Michael and Rachel builds to an inferno, but she marries Tommy, complicating things. Nonetheless, they continue to meet and are quickly found out by Tommy. Michael hatches a plan.

"Underneath" was directed by Steven Soderbergh and was virtually ignored by American filmmakers. In fact, most of Soderbergh's films after his debut, "sex, lies and videotape", ... Read More

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- A Suspenseful, Moody New Noir - Good Flick But Underrated!
"The Underneath" is new noir, with a moody feel, that has been relatively underrated. I think it is a hidden gem. Steven Soderbergh wrote and directed this 1995 thriller based on the novel by Don Tracy and the 1949 film "Criss Cross." I actually like Soderbergh's version more, which is unusual. I ordinarily go for the original. The focus here is more on the characters and their development than on the action. The use of flashbacks within flashbacks is very effective, which is fortunate because that's how the plot unfolds. And Soderbergh has added some new, interesting twists and turns.

Michael Chambers, (Peter Gallagher), a compulsive gambler, returns to his home in Austin, Texas, after an absence of several years, for his widowed mother's wedding. Michael left town super fast, owing several bookies lots of loot, his beloved live-in girlfriend Rachel, (Alison Elliot), in the lurch, his somewhat psycho ... Read More

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