Product Details

• Actors: Thomas Jane, Aaron Eckhart, Paulina Porizkova, James LeGros, Mickey Rourke
• Directors: Skip Woods
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Run Time: 87 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (62 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001GERO6M
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #46,869 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

A former L.A. drug dealer (Thomas Jane) has moved to Houston to make a new life for himself as a married architect. Everything falls apart when he is suddenly visited by one of his former cohorts (Aaron Eckhart) who comes carrying heroin. Discovering the dope, the architect flushes it down the drain. This sets up a series of tough customers seeking the dope including a Rasta hit-man (Glenn Plummer), an ex-lover Dallas (Paulina Porizkova) who ties him up and rapes him, a criminal called James (James LeGros) with a penchant for torture, and a rogue cop (Mickey Rourke). Michael Jeter also appears as a psychologist from an adoption agency where the couple is seeking to adopt a child.

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41 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Movie, but very rare, November 30, 2006

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T. Ward (Denver) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: THURSDAY - (Uncut - Import) (DVD)

This film only played in two theaters. (One in NYC, one in LA). It only grossed a few thousand dollars. (I read this in EW)

When it played at the Toronto Film Festival in 1998, Roger Ebert wrote about how racist and absurd this movie was and much he hated it when he saw it, so most distributors stayed away from it. He also claimed that it was a cheap knock off of Tarantino, and done poorly. You can read the Toronto Film Festival review where he trashes the movie on his website.

It finally came out on DVD in 2002, by Polygram/USA films. A week after it came out, Polygram/USA Films went bankrupt, and no more than 1000 copies of the DVD were made. This wasnt the only film that got hurt by Polygram's bankruptcy. The Last Days of Disco, Topsy Turvy, No Looking Back are also Polygram/USA DVD's that are super rare and impossible to find because of this. The only film that got lucky from the Polygram bankruptcy was The Big Lebowski, and thats because the Coen Brothers own american distribution rights to all their films.

The DVD imports are quite a bit easier to get a hold of. If you want to watch this movie this is the best way to go. The movie is still in English and the subs can easily be turned off.

SYNOPSIS

-"Taking a page from the Tarantino school of filmmaking, Thursday starts with a bang -- on Monday -- and shows no mercy until the final scene. The moral of the story is that you can't escape your past. That said, Thursday centres on Casey Wells, an architect leading the good life in suburban Houston, whose past catches up with him when his old buddy Nick comes to town.

Nick (Aaron Eckhart) brings with him a cast of creeps including Paulina Porizkova as the hyper-sexual Dallas, and James Le Gros as homicide specialist Billy Hill (folks call him "HillBilly"). If you caught Eckhart's performance as lead sleazeball in In the Company of Men, he will not seem cast off-type here. In Casey's words, he and Nick took separate paths when he left Los Angeles, and Nick never got his act together. Dialogue and a few flashbacks tell the story of Casey's sordid past: two years in L.A., which he has kept secret from his wife. Aside from the opening scene and the flashbacks, Thursday takes place on Thursday, with title screens to help guide the viewer through the day,

Porizkova seems to be enjoying every moment on screen and why not? Every actor loves to play a villain, and she shines as Dallas. Other fine performances are given by Le Gros, who is believably psychotic, and Jane, who delves into Casey's dark side without abandoning his conscience. Good editing is also evident in Thursday, as much of the gore is left to the viewer's imagination.

The unrated version has five minutes of extra footage too extreme for the R-rated release. Both versions give you plenty of violence, drugs and a smattering of sex. Obviously, Thursday is not family viewing, but if you liked Pulp Fiction and True Romance, this fast-paced ensemble film should also entertain you."

29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thursday--What Fun!!!!, June 15, 2000

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This review is from: Thursday (Unrated Director's Cut) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This has quickly become one of my all time favorite movies. Thomas Jane is marvelous as Casey, a former drug dealer who has moved from L.A to Houston, become an architect, gotten married, and bought a cute little house in the 'burbs. He likes being an upstanding citizen whose greatest danger in life is getting caught in his automatic lawn water sprinkler system. Things are so good, in fact, that Casey and his wife are trying to adopt a baby. All is bliss--until Thursday--when who should show up on his doorstep but his old drug-running buddy Nick (Aaron Eckhart) and leaves behind a mysterious locked metal suitcase. Strange people start showing up at Casey's house, including the nosy psychologist from the state adoption board who has come to conduct a psychological evaluation on Casey's fitness for prospective parenthood. Definitely some elements of "Pulp Fiction" here, but still fresh and funny. Even Mickey Rourke shows up--what else can you say? Just this: The humor is black, but the heart of this movie is pure gold.

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Movie and I finally bought it, March 5, 2007

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This review is from: THURSDAY - (Uncut - Import) (DVD)

I have been looking for this movie for 6 years and I finally found it here. At first I was a little concerned because it was an import, but the concern was not justified. The movie is DVD quality and is english. I received it 5 days after I bought it and it is just as I remember it. Dont spend >$100 and buy it used, just get this one! Thanks Amazon, you now have a customer for life.