Albino Alligator Kevin Spacey Digital Life VHS

Albino Alligator
starring: Matt Dillon, Faye Dunaway, Gary Sinise, William Fichtner, Viggo Mortensen
directed by: Kevin Spacey

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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780788808340
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
ISBN: 0788808346
Label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 46317
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 17, 1997

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Actor Kevin Spacey made his directorial debut in this uneven crime thriller that has the claustrophobic feel of a play. Matt Dillon, Gary Sinise, and William Fichtner play a trio of robbers who have just pulled a job gone wrong. On the run from the cops, they hide out in a basement bar, where they try to figure out their next move. There's a certain amount of urgency, however, because Sinise, the brains of the outfit, is badly wounded--which means that Fichtner, the group psycho, is allowed to run wild, terrorizing the barflies unlucky enough to be their hostages. As the cops swarm outside the bar--thinking these three are major criminals rather than small potatoes--tensions mount, mostly through misunderstanding. But it's all a lot of talk, not nearly enough of it interesting, that pushes the movie slowly to its inevitable conclusion. --Marshall Fine

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- Could have been worse.
The transition from actor to director is not always as easy as it seems. Sometimes it takes years to make the transition, and that is quite apparent with Kevin Spacey's Albino Alligator. Spacey attempts to hit a homerun on his first at bat but ends up getting a solid single instead.

The film deals with a botched heist (not the sort of story-line that is exactly lacking in Hollywood these days) and the relationships between the three main criminals. What we see is the thin lines between loyalty and survival, and the great lengths some will go to ensure their own preservation, even at the expense of those closest to them.

There are moments in intense drama throughout the film, and a climax that you probably won't see coming, but overall, Albino Alligator reminds me of that glass of water in the middle of the night. It's refreshing, but if you weren't so tired and were able to pour a glass ... Read More

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- A slow day at the actor's workshop...
by dane youssef

A gang of crooks. The perfect plan. It all goes wrong. They're in trouble. The police are outside. They're cornered. What are they gonna do now?

Sound familiar?

The movie seems like it's trying to be a combination of the acting workshop, the "indie" film and the theater.

It's the kind of things that actors love--it's kind of like a workshop or a play because it mostly consists of tight focusing on the actors acting... acting angry, tense, scared, conversing, scheming, planning--giving the performers a lot of free range to really ham it all up.

A trio of crooks, one leader, one goon, one brother, come up with a big heist scheme... and a monkey wrench is thrown into the works. To top things off, there's a bit of a "fender-bender" and one of the crooks in flung through the back of the windshield.

The cops are on their tail and ... Read More

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- Decent dialogue drama....(ha! good aliteration!!)
There are some movies out there that, in my opinion, exist to give us faith in the movie industry. After years and years of main stream fluff (a family friendly term) and the shear lack of creativity in Hollywood, you lose your desire to see good films or just become numb to them. However, the channels like IFC, PBS, TCM, and Sundance keep our eyes, ears, and hearts open to good film making and new ventures. One such film is 1996's Albino Alligator, a caper/hostage flick by Kevin Spacey that doesn't break any new film making grounds but delivers a host of good performances amid an uneven flow.

Albino Alligator is the story of three crooks, Dova (Matt Dillion), his brother Milo (Gary Sinies), and Law (William Fichtner) who, after a botched robbery attempt, are pinned in a old bar by the ATF and police in New Orleans. Through simultaneous story telling, we learn that the ATF has surrounded the bar in attempt ... Read More

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- Great Actors & Director but Bad Script
There's a superb cast assembled here. You have Faye Dunaway, Gary Sinise, Viggo Mortensen, Joe Mantegna and several others. It's like a play - primarily set in one small, claustrophobic basement bar with only one exit. There's a trio of brothers who are petty thieves who take the few bar people hostage while they try to think their way out of their mess. In the meantime the cops and news reporters do their usual dances outside.

This is of course a theme that's been done many, many times in many situations. How the hostage-takers each have different views on what to do and fight amongst themselves. How the hostages first rebel against the situation and then try to work with the captors in order to work things out. How the newscasters "screw things up" for the cops by broadcasting information they shouldn't.

I really appreciated that, while the movie is inherently about violence and threatened violence, ... Read More

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