Paris Trout
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Actor: Barbara Hershey, Ed HarrisPrimary Contributor: Dennis Hopper
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: NTSC
Running Time: 99 unknown-units
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
DVD Reviews of Paris Trout
DVD Review: Vile southern bigot's journey into madness
Summary: 2 Stars
Well I'am not too surprised this movie doesn't get too attention. I wouldn't it call a masterpiece but neither a terrible movie. It falls somewhere in the middle.
Plot (Spoilers to follow): An altercation between a racist white man and a black boy about the ownership of a damaged vehicle prompts the white man to kill the boy's mother and sister.
Pros:
Dennis Hopper's character as Paris Trout is probably the most fleshed out character in the movie. The movie main selling point basically is this bigot's journey into madness and self-destruction and to that Dennis Hopper does it like the veteran he is.
Cons:
*Predictable ending
*The other characters are one dimensional and weak
*The ending itself leaves you a bit unsatisfied.
Barbara Hershey is a great actress but her character is so one dimensional it's almost annoying. Hanna Trout represents back then and even today the battered housewife, the housewife whose come to expect nothing from life except the misery of her husband.
Ed Harris's character as Harry Seagraves is pretty much despite his handsome, heroic appearences not much better than Paris Trout. Here's a lawyer defending a murderer who he knows is guilty, has sex with his wife and well there's pretty much it.
The story takes place in Georgia and well while I can go along with the fact that the law has in certain situations been corrupt, why is it that no one else confronts Paris? Certainly the character is so hateful and pitiful that I was awaiting for the moment when somebody takes revenge on him but it never happens. I realize Stephen Gyllenhaal's goal was to show an evil man getting away with murder but he could have made things more interesting which leads to my next point: This movie is way too long.
This movie could have been cut down immensely like the court scenes which serves no purpose especially when we learn how Paris gets away with murder.
All in all it's an ok film, some might like others not. It's probably not the type of film you would watch again as there are other films like it. However, if you are a Dennis Hopper fan you'll probably like it.
Description of Paris Trout
Movie Description The story of an unyielding southern racist, Paris Trout, who murders a young black girl. Paris is so narrow-minded and self-obsessed that he believes that he and his little town are impervious to the laws and mores of a larger world. Paris Trout makes his own harsh rules, including justice by murder, and expects everyone to live by them. Adapted from the novel by Pete Dexter. Synopsis Paris Trout is a Southern storekeeper and money lender charging obscene interest rates to the black population. When a black man borrows cash to buy a car from Trout, and the used- up vehicle crashes the same day, he refuses to pay. In response, Trout shoots, without remorse, the man's mother and 12-year-old sister. Trout feels sure that, as a white man, no one will arrest him for the crime -- but he's wrong, and when he's tried for the death of the child, he maintains his innocence, while becoming more and more detached from reality.Bestsellers in DVD
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