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Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Milla Jovovich, Stellan Skarsgård, Doug Hutchison, Jonathan Higgins, Grace Zabriskie, Joss Ackland
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The House on Turk Street |
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THE HOUSE ON TURK STREET is based on a short story by Dashiell Hammett and was directed by Bob Rafelson (Five Easy Pieces) in 2002. The movie was renamed "No Good Deed" when it hit the video/DVD market.
Jack Friar, a policeman, is about to go on vacation when his neighbour asks him to find her 15 years old daughter who's left home three days before. Reluctantly, Jack starts his investigation and stumbles upon Mr. & Mrs. Quarre who invites him home. But the Quarres are members of a gang of thieves, preparing the swindling of a local bank, who falsely think that Jack is after them.
Jack is soon tied up to a chair and has to witness the last preparations of the gang. While Tyrone and Hoop are driving to the bank, Erin is left behind in the house with the policeman. Jack and Erin, who are both excellent musicians, are soon attracted one by the other but Jack is unable to grasp whether Erin is manipulating him.
After Tyrone has managed to transfer 10 million dollars, with the help of an accomplice banker, to his own account, he's got some problems recovering the floppy disk containing the data from the banker who's soon killed by the psychopathic Hoop. Tyrone asks then Hoop to look for Erin and kill the policeman but Hoop won't make it as Jack Friar kills him when he arrives home. The other members of the gang start to kill each other as they see that Tyrone is trying to frame them.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 60%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- criminal/victim falls in love with victim/criminal
- criminal kidnappers
Criminal enemy is...
- thief/con-artist
If this is a criminal POV story...
- criminals killing each other
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard curly (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- physically sick
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
Body type
- average (woman)
Unclothed?
- buttocks and chest
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Russian
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- thief/con artist
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- red
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
City?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- sex under blankets
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- asphyxiation
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Is this movie based on a
- book
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