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The Postman Always Rings Twice

1981

Bob Rafelson

Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange, Anjelica Huston, John Colicos ...

6.8

12,208

Film noir. Mystery. Drama Frank Chambers, a depression-era drifter ends up at a diner owned by Nick Papadakis, who offers Frank a job. Frank accepts the offer, and soon begins an affair with Nick's wife Cora. The adulterous lovers soon plot to kill Nick and share in the insurance money.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	It shows a technical mastery of filmmaking, and we are dazzled by the performances, the atmosphere, the mood of mounting violence. But by the second hour of the film we've lost our bearings (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"The world of this story - its seediness, its poverty, its bleakness - is conveyed with oppressive specificity, so that everyone watching wants to escape, just as much as the central characters do"	POS
United States	Pauline Kael The New Yorker	"The impulsiveness and raw flamboyance that make the book exciting are missing, and the cool, elegant visuals outclass the characters right from the start."	NEG
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"Vulgarity is the essense of Cain's fiction, and vulgarity is what is so lacking in the new screen adaptation (...) the pictures on the screen are not only uninvolving, they are, sad to report, tasteful."	NEG

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