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Thursday (1998)

Posted By: Someonelse
Date: 23 Jul 2011 09:29:28
Thursday (1998)
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Thursday (1998) [Director's Cut]
DVD5 (VIDEO_TS) | NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | 01:27:31 | 4,51 Gb
Audio: English 5.1/2.0 @ 448/192 Kbps | Subs: English
Genre: Action, Crime | 1 win | USA

Skip Woods made his directorial debut with this film, caught in a crossfire between thriller and comedy. After violence is unleashed in the opening sequence, the story settles on former L.A. drug dealer Casey Wells (Thomas Jane), now a Houston architect living with his attractive wife Christine (Paula Marshall). When past partner Nick (Aaron Eckhart) arrives out of the blue on a Thursday, asking for a place to stay for a few days, Casey invites him in but later gets curious about Nick's briefcase. After he opens it to find a huge helping of heroin, panic sets in, and he flushes it all away – setting the stage for a variety of hoods and hitmen to turn up on Casey's suburban doorstep. Shown at the 1998 Toronto World Festival.

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Thursday is a stylish movie about a dealer who reformed his ways but is visited by a fiend from his past. The hero, a pre Punisher Thomas Jane, is in a marriage that is getting stale. And his wife, the woman who plays the ditzy receptionist on that piece of crap Becker, could be fed up. They are in the midst of the adoption process and the interview scene is one of the strongest of the film. The cast includes Michael Jeeter, James LeGros, Mickey Rourke and Paulina-married to the guy from The Cars-Pourniscova. The black guy with the Jaguar from Speed is there too. His friend from the past, Aaron Eckhart, shows up and borrows hero's car for one last job before he slinks away and gets married. Guess what, it goes all wrong and people want to kill the hero!! It is a good movie that has a unique take on the typical "flashback" and will constantly mock you because its never at the store.
boncesadclown, Epinions.com
Thursday (1998)

Recently I've been checking out some reviews and comments on this film in other sites, and I found over 50% of the people who talked about it said it was a Tarantino rip-off. I was totally amazed to see that because I honestly think this movie doesn't look like a Tarantino one, I think it's an original story, but oh well, to each his own.

Thursday (1998)

Casey (Thomas Jane) is a former drug dealer who quit the business to become a family man, he currently lives with his wife and works as an architect. Everything is normal, he hasn't been related to the drug business in years, but one day his former partner Nick (Aaron Eckhart) stops by his house and gives him some heroin, which Casey throws away.

Thursday (1998)

This is where all the problems start, Casey starts getting 'visits' from people who are looking for that heroin. First is the Rasta Man (Glenn Plummer), then comes Dallas (Paulina Porizkova), after that comes Billy Hill (James LeGros) and finally a cop named Kasarov (Mickey Rourke). To make things even worse, in the middle of all of this Casey gets a visit from Dr. Jarvis (Michael Jeter) who wants to interview him to see if he's able to adopt a child, which is what Casey and his wife were planning to do.

Thursday (1998)

I did find a similarity with Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs" and other films too, and it's the fact that nearly through the whole film you see ther characters in the same place, in Casey's house, but I don't think that means something anywyas. I saw a TV program the other day where they listed Thomas Jane as a promising actor, and I must say he's become one of my favourites, his role in here was pretty good. None of the other actors are seen as much time as he is but ont he supprting side Eckhart, Jeter, Porizkova, Rourke and everyone else were ok.

Thursday (1998)

The film has some funny moments, something good, and some violence which I didn't find disturbing at all, actually some of the scenes where you see blood are rather funny. Through the film I got to really like Jane's character and I wanted the best for him, I guess most people will get that feeling. Nice writing and directing debut for Skip Woods in this cool flick which I think you don't wanna miss if you want some entertainment.
Arturo Garcia Lasca, Movie Vault
Thursday (1998)

OK, so this film is NOT very well known, and wasn't very well publicised. I discovered this fairly brutal gangster gone good movie by complete accident on one of Skys millions of movie channels late on some boring evening, but I'm glad i did! The opening sequence to this film is fantastically comical in a very dark way. This in fact sets what i think is the general tone for the movie. I think a lot of critics and movie fans that have actually seen this film have been a bit unfair to just write it off as a lower budget gangster movie in the Reservoir Dogs vein. OK, so there are undeniable similarities between Thursday and some other crime genre films that it has been compared to,but in all fairness,i think this film takes a much more darkly comic look at this type of film,and the end result is a engrossing, well made, funny, if not totally original film.

Thursday (1998)

Tom Jane is good in this, and deserves the recognition he will now hopefully get thanks to the The Punisher. His performance as the bad guy gone good is realistic,funny and just cold enough to make you believe Casey really was a bad ass before he reformed.Thats another thing that makes this film stand out for me,the characters. In Nicks gang you get the strangest trio of criminals ever assembled, a smooth, charismatic but very cold leader(Nick), a trigger happy blood loving sexually predatory bitch of a woman (Dallas) and a psychotic hill billy with brains with a penchant for torture(Billy Hill). Throw in the most bizarre police detective ever seen on screen, beautifully over played by Mickey Rourke, and you've got a recipe for…well for Thursday really. Its at times darkly comic, sometimes brutal, sometimes unoriginal, but always engrossing and worth watching.
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Thursday (1998)

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