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No Place to Hide (1993 film)
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Wikipedia article
'No Place to Hide' is a 1993 American detective film written and directed by Richard Danus and starring Kris Kristofferson.VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever 1996 - Page 1967 No Place to Hide A girl's father drowns and she blames herself. Her mother and psychologist try to convince the girl that her ... Kristofferson plays the hard-edged cop who's out to protect her and trap the killer. 1993 (R) 90m'C Drew Barrymore."
Cast
* Kris Kristofferson as Joe Garvey
* Drew Barrymore as Tinsel Hanley/Narrator
* Martin Landau as Frank McCoy
* Illana Diamant as Joline
* O. J. Simpson as Allie Wheeler
* Dey Young as Karen
* Bruce Weitz as Captain Nelson Silva
* Seth Marten as Harold Rosen
* Lydie Denier as Pamela Hanley
* Kane Hodder as Weller
* Lilyan Chauvin as Mother Superior
Reception
The film was reamed by critics, particularly Richard Harrington of the 'Washington Post': "'No Place to Hide' is so bad it's not even any good. No guilty pleasures are to be found in its preposterously clumsy plot, or in the limp performance of Kris Kristofferson; someone check his pulse. Even Drew Barrymore regresses from the promise of 'Guncrazy' by being forced to play a petulant 14-year-old caught up in a web of murder and intrigue. For both actors, this film is a triumph of underachievement...The laconic Kristofferson's acting range is measured between squinting eyes and a grinding jaw...The gradually-developing bond between Kris and Drew is excruciatingly detailed in the latter's voiced-over diary entries. It's all very embarrassing...Director Richard Danus, who beats his own script to a pulp, has no idea where to take any of this; loose plot threads abound. The inevitable revelation of a secret society run by 'Dirty Harry'-type elitists is simply ridiculous; if ever a film needed a Satanic subplot, it's this one. In any number of confrontations with Drew's would-be-killer (who looks and acts suspiciously like The Shadow), Kristofferson tells Barrymore to 'Run, run...! Get out of here!' Take those as subliminal messages."
To this day, Kristofferson and Landau are, apparently, not fans of the film themselves. Once, when asked about the picture by a fan, Landau's retort was "Why would you want to know about 'that' one?" For his part, Kristofferson often pretends not to even remember making the film.
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