Product Details

• Actors: Eric Stoltz, James Spader, Deborah Kara Unger, Joanna Going, Michael Rooker
• Directors: Leslie Greif
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Polygram Video
• VHS Release Date: March 24, 1998
• Run Time: 113 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304539444
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #27,752 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Largely a puffed-up display of attitude, Keys to Tulsa stars Eric Stoltz as the black-sheep son of a wealthy Oklahoma family who appears out of nowhere and immediately gets involved with a blackmail scheme, an old girlfriend, guns, and a stripper. There isn't much compelling narrative to back any of this outré stuff up; it's indie-film posturing, though not without some attractive reasons to watch. Mary Tyler Moore's and James Coburn's presence certainly bring freshness to the otherwise overly-familiar indie cast. --Tom Keogh

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Joanna Going -- WOW!, January 19, 2003

By	Bobby R. Treat "DrMajorBob" (Round Rock, TX United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Keys to Tulsa (DVD)

It's offensive that Cameron Diaz is on the cover of this thing, when her mediocre part is over just about as soon as the credits.

Joanna Going gave her all, meanwhile, and isn't mentioned on the box at all. I bought the DVD to see her, and every red-blooded male out there bought it for the same reason. Who are they kidding with this Cameron Diaz jazz? It's a taut mystery story, too, with real characters in an unreal situation. I loved it.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Cool little film; lousy DVD release!, March 7, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Keys to Tulsa (DVD)

I could hold forth on the relative merits of this DVD's entertainment value--you get to see some weird incarnations of various prominent actors, James Spader looking particularly weird; not that many flicks set in Oklahoma these days; Joanna Going carried the film, etc. etc.--but instead I think I'll criticize the DVD itself. First off, it has exactly ONE "special feature" (production stills, at that!). Furthermore, not only does this disc lack the extended cut (missing 3 minutes, this is just the R-rated version), it is also, most pathetically of all, full-frame only. Come on! This is a 2002 release of a **1997** film, and somehow they couldn't manage a widescreen edition. Has the distributor already been repossessed or something? It's DVDs like this that make me doubt for the future of the medium. Get with the program, Artisan!

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Keys to Insanity, August 30, 2000

By	Kathy Fennessy - See all my reviews

Just how bad can a movie starring James Coburn (who would win the Oscar for "Affliction," also 1997), Mary Tyler Moore, Eric Stoltz, James Spader and Deborah Unger (more effective as a married couple in "Crash"), Michael Rooker ("Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer"), Joanna Going and, in a bit part, a pre-"There's Something About Mary" Cameron Diaz be? Far worse than I thought. I have no idea why these actors, who've all done better work elsewhere, would have agreed to star in such a stinker. Easily one of the more inept entries in the overcrowded post-"Pulp Fiction" dying-to-be-hip black comic neo-noir derby.

Stoltz, saddled with a bad haircut and the unfortunate name of Richter Boudreau, is completely miscast as a reporter who mostly just walks around with his shirt open, and his love scenes with Vicky (Unger) and Cherry (Going) are pretty tepid, especially in the scene where Going's punk rock stripper character drags herself over a plate of sausage and eggs en route to a morning quickie (can you say yuck?).

And the film isn't even half as interesting as I've made it sound! Cinematography and soundtrack are competent, but the story doesn't make sense, dialogue is DOA, characters uninteresting, direction listless, and actors bored. Only some morbid and compulsive form of curiosity kept me going until the very end. Not even bad-good.