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The Salton Sea
After his wife is murdered, a man drifts into a world populated by thugs and speed junkies and draws closer to the truth about a heartbreaking mystery and a bloody, horrifying resolution that isn't what anyone in his circle expects.
24 March 1944, Emporia, Kansas, USA
27 September 1947, Dallas, Texas, USA
31 January 1959, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
28 August 1956, Cayey, Puerto Rico
8 November 1981, Northridge, Los Angeles, California, USA
25 March 1962, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
24 October 1960, San Francisco, California, USA
5 December 1973, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
October 27, 2002
It's a sort of rollercoaster ride through the salvaged wreckage of a hundred similar movies.May 17, 2002
Lovable absurdity is the saving grace of a drug movie, and on the rare occasion that this genre works, the head trip winds up being a worthwhile journey.July 12, 2002
If there's no art here, it's still a good yarn -- which is nothing to sneeze at these days.December 08, 2002
Is authenticity too much to ask? It's not as if the various drug subcultures don't have enough humor and tragedy built in that you need to take a detour into Fantasyland.July 25, 2003
Com boas atuações de Kilmer e D'Onofrio, o filme tem um roteiro razoável, mas sem foco. Salva-se graças ao interessante personagem principal.January 07, 2004
interestingJuly 20, 2002
Sacrificing content for style, Caruso gives us a lot to look at but little to ponder.July 16, 2003
Marked by an ambitious style and solid performances, but hampered by a story that buries its primary focus until late in the game.July 12, 2002
For what it is, it's well-done -- a stylized-beyond-reality derivation of Natural Born Killers, perhaps. Or a more gonzo version of Go or Blow. But the heart has been stylized out of it.May 21, 2002
A thriller with an edge -- which is to say that it doesn't follow the stale, standard, connect-the-dots storyline which has become commonplace in movies that explore the seamy underbelly of the criminal world.August 23, 2002
Repellent yet intriguing, brutal yet funny, wicked yet strangely compassionate, The Salton Sea is more about mixing genres and styles than illuminating a credible reality.December 17, 2010
The overall voyage on The Salton Sea is an uneasy one hampered by a confusing story that admits out loud it doesn't know where it's going.