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| Genre | Black Comedy |
| Format | Multiple Formats, AC-3, Blu-ray, Closed-captioned, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen |
| Contributor | Nicolas Chartier, Matthew McConaughey, Voltage Pictures, Scott Einbinder, Emile Hirsch, William Friedkin, Juno Temple, Gina Gershon, Thomas Haden Church See more |
| Language | English |
| Runtime | 1 hour and 42 minutes |
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When 22-year-old Chris (Emile Hirsch) finds himself in debt to a drug lord, he hires a hit man to dispatch his mother, whose $50,000 life insurance policy benefits his sister Dottie (Juno Temple). Chris finds Joe Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), a creepy, crazy Dallas cop who moonlights as a contract killer. When Chris can't pay Joe upfront, Joe sets his sight on Dottie as collateral for the job. The contract killer and his hostage develop an unusual bond. A modern-day, twisted fairy tale, 'Killer Joe' Cooper is the prince to Dottie's Cinderella. Based on the play by Pulitzer and Tony Award winner Tracy Letts, Killer Joe is a garish, provocative black comedy from Academy Award-winning director William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection) and stars Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Gina Gershon and Thomas Haden Church.
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.4 Ounces
- Audio Description: : English
- Item model number : 25938573
- Director : William Friedkin
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, AC-3, Blu-ray, Closed-captioned, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 42 minutes
- Release date : December 21, 2012
- Actors : Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Thomas Haden Church, Gina Gershon
- Subtitles: : Spanish, English
- Producers : Nicolas Chartier, Scott Einbinder
- Studio : Lionsgate
- ASIN : B009POCFTG
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #20,759 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #670 in Mystery & Thrillers (Movies & TV)
- #1,841 in Drama Blu-ray Discs
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Their adaptation leaves the Tracy Lett's source play almost untouched. )Letts and Friedkin previously adapted Letts' play, Bug, with Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon.) A few choice locations open up the Dallas, Texas outskirts but the real meat and inevitable massacre still occur in the pressure-cooker confines of a family trailer home. Cinematographer Caleb Deschanel (Being There, The Right Stuff) employs a grease-stained Edward Hopper vibe refracted by tawdry and cartoonish fluorescents, and the atmosphere is all noir jazz bassline, thunderstorms, blazing trash-can fires, restless pitbulls, and Gina Gershon’s casual crotchbearing. Letts convinced Friedkin to preserve this charming introductory detail in an eight-page memo bearing the advice “Don’t be afraid of the p****.”
Meet the Smiths: paterfamilias Ansel, played by a hysterical Thomas Haden Church (Sideways), an oaf in a union suit, too lost in a haze of pot and monster-truck rallies to pay heed to the nude preening of his wife Sharla (Gershon) or the troubles of his hapless son Chris (Emile Hirsch). His daughter, 20-year-old babydoll/Carroll Bakeresque, Dottie (Juno Temple, of Sin City fame and daughter of filmmaker, Julien Temple), is prone to sleepwalking out of her bedroom safe haven of snowglobes and stuffed animals to coo (occasionally lucid) non sequiturs. Chris and Dottie’s mother has been dipping into Chris’s coke stash, the sale of which was to pay off a debt to a local kingpin.
So it is decided, with minimal philosophical or logistical debate, that the conspicuously off-screen matriarch must die. A $50,000 life insurance policy can cover the cost of hiring the eponymous cop (Matthew McConaughey), who moonlights as a courteous hit man. The remainder is hardly starting-over money, not that any of these folks has a concrete plan beyond living a bit better than before. There is no on-screen rumination or reflection in this amoral vacuum, just savage emotions and primal call-and-response. These people aren’t too stupid to live, just too stupid to succeed.
Dottie is the virginal sacrifice (very explicit) in lieu of an advance for Killer Joe’s services. When Joe looks at Dottie, Friedkin backlights her unbrushed hair into a halo of hope amidst the crossfire of betrayals and bad ideas. McConaughey has taken notes from Robert Mitchum’s Night of the Hunter: avoiding a fullblown cowboy-hat-and-sunglasses camp cartoon. Joe is both sadistic monster and angel of vengeance, greedy predator and tender lover. He is, perhaps, the hero of this sordid tale. Friedkin and Letts possess a bold oldschool faith in familiar pulp tropes and down-and-dirty dialogue, re-creating the sort of electric clash between hyperrealism and hallucination, horror and farce, rarely seen since the best B-movie of yesteryear. Such deep-fried depravity used to be a guaranteed seat-filler for a certain kind of audience: Drive
-ins and grindhouse, but these days, slapped with an NC-17, it seems downright avant-garde. Killer Joe closes with the disco-blues sermon “Strokin’” as Clarence Carter leads listeners in an ecstatic release of raw, rural libidinal energy. It is the perfect punctuation to this exuberant white-trash Gothic. Friedkin and Letts are similarly unapologetic about their noboundaries ride on the raging blue-collar id, and unafraid to play it for both laughs and genuine feeling.
The Blu-ray presentation comes with a sharp 1080p transfer and DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio track. both not ground-breaking but very clear and sharp. Since this film was released NC-17 in theaters, the film arrives on Blu-ray in this Unrated Director’s Cut. There is also an R-rated DVD included - for those who need it. The Unrated Director’s Cut features an excellent commentary track from director William Friedkin, highly recommended - he's got The gift of the gab.The rest of the special features are decent but not spectacular. There is a featurette called “Southern Fried Hospitality: From Stage to Screen”, takes us through from the beginning. Besides that there is some footage from SXSW including a Q&A with Cast and an intro by William Friedkin. Also features a "white trash" Red Band trailer. Great English subtitles, too.
I'll hand it to McConaughey - his acting was decent. Out there, but decent. Aside from that, I was left totally unimpressed and without closure. The plot seemed like it was trying desperately to get somewhere and just never arrived.
But be forewarned, it's disturbing. Great movie but you might prepare yourself to be emotionally drained at the end. Seriously.
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Friedkin has been smart enough to take the best of the brilliant theatrical piece the film is based on.
All the rest is good pulp/crime comedy.
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