| The Salton Sea | 
 enlarge | Actors: Vincent D'onofrio, Adam Goldberg, Doug Hutchison, Val Kilmer, Shirley Knight
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  104 reviews
Sales Rank: 8160
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 103
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 4.8 x 0.6
MPN: WARD18882D
ISBN: 0790756757
UPC: 085391888222
EAN: 9780790756752
ASIN: B00005JKM2
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Release Date: September 10, 2002
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Product Description
Snitch. Fiend. Addict. Thief. Danny parker is all these things. Or is he? val kilmer plays a jazz musician who leads a double life in hopes of trapping the murderers of his wife in this edgy high-style neo-noir thriller packed with a rogues gallery of dealers drifters double-crossers and good ol boys. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/14/2004 Starring: Val Kilmer Doug Hutchison Run time: 103 minutes Rating: R Director: D.j. Caruso
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In the real world, drug use is unimaginably boring to watch--but it inspires spectacular visuals in movies like Trainspotting and Drugstore Cowboy. To this list add The Salton Sea, a moody thriller starring Val Kilmer as a musician who goes undercover into the world of speed freaks to find the men who killed his wife. Though that plot summary may sound trite, creative direction, strong performances, and a solid script that shifts to and fro in time make The Salton Sea worth a look. Kilmer has an erratic track record but he's always an intriguing on-screen presence; Vincent D'Onofrio has a field day playing a noseless speed dealer called Pooh Bear. The cast is full of excellent character actors, including Anthony LaPaglia (Lantana), Peter Sarsgaard (Boys Don't Cry), B.D. Wong (Jurassic Park), Deborah Kara Unger (Crash), Adam Goldberg (Saving Private Ryan), and Luis Guzman (The Limey). --Bret Fetzer
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The Salton Sea September 22, 2008
If you like movies that are not the norm and kind of trippy, like "Another Day in Paradise", you'll love The Salton Sea. It's a trippy, druggy movie with a little twist. It's got some comedy, nice visuals, some action and it's just good.
Good September 20, 2008
Recently I watched DVDs of 2 of the latest films in the Kilmer canon- his portrayal of a man on a mission in The Salton Sea & his portrayal of porno king Johnny `Wadd' Holmes in Wonderland. Both films attempt to be modern noir films, & in both films Kilmer plays a character that has 2 sides to his persona. In The Salton Sea he portrays a dual character Danny Parker/Tom Van Allen. The former is a crystal meth dealer & the latter a jazzman. The film is a stylistic masterpiece that is every bit the equal of the far more lauded Memento- a similar story about a troubled man searching for himself & the truth to his wife's death. Kilmer sinks into the role of Tom, as an avenging husband whose wife was brutally killed by 2 gunmen near the Salton Sea. Tom decides to become Danny, & work with 2 crooked undercover cops (Doug Hutchison and Anthony LaPaglia) to expose the drug cartel he believes is responsible for his wife. Along the way he encounters 1 of the great modern onscreen personifications of evil- a drug dealer named Pooh-Bear (Vincent D'Onofrio) who wears a fake nosepiece because his real nose was burnt off by cocaine use. Along with Daniel Day Lewis's Bill the Butcher in Gangs Of New York, Pooh-Bear is one of those cartoony villains that nevertheless seems to be just real enough to lift the whole of the story beyond standard noir. The real forces Tom contends against in the film are almost surreal as the cinematography & Danny's hallucinations. Pooh-Bear's idea of fun is eating brains, staging the JFK assassination with pigeons and a mini-car set, & threatening Danny with having his gonads eaten by a badger.
Director D.J. Caruso and screenwriter Tony Gayton do a fine job of creating a world that Kilmer's dual personae feel right at home with. He seems to die several times, only to wake up back in his hell. The film is shot surreally, with low angles, frames just off-center, & flashbacks & dreams that happen in odd places- even in the barrel of a pistol. But what lifts this film to true greatness, like Memento, is Kilmer's performance. His blend of fear, weariness, & bravado echoes back to his work in The Doors, yet surpasses it because this character is his total creation, not a recitation of a real figure.
 Great Movie with realistic hidden twists September 3, 2008
This is a great movie with several great twists that are unexpected but realistic. It is very hard to have both, but this movie pulls it off. I am a great fan of Val Kilmer, that's why I wrote a bio about him, he is a great actor that is not after the money - so he ends up in underrated movies that no one has heard of, instead of overrated movies that everyone hs heard of.Blessed, Life and Films of Val Kilmer
Salton Sea August 26, 2008
Great movie, the copy we got was in good condition upon arrival. If you have not seen this movie don't be surprised if at the end you are saying "WOW!".
Simply amazing. August 3, 2008
This movie came on TV one day and it quickly became one of my favorites. I just had to buy the dvd so that I can watch it over and over for years to come.
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