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Trixie
from Sony Pictures
starring Emily Watson, Dermot Mulroney, Nick Nolte, Nathan Lane, Brittany Murphy
directed by Alan Rudolph

Features:

• Anamorphic
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

• Very enjoyable mystery
  It is a pleasure to watch and listen to this movie very carefully to get all of the humor -- stay focused or you will miss a lot. Though you are laughing about this charming and interesting cast of misfits and semi-morons, you never really laugh at them as you try to work your way through Trixie's muddled haze to figure out who did what.
  All the actors play their best known and acclaimed character roles to the hilt, never disappointing. Emily Watson is wonderful as the malapropped mystery solver -- who... more info

• simple
  This movie invites comparison with Fargo-which is vastly superior. The difference is that while Emily Watson plays her character as simply stupid, Francis McDormand plays her character as innocent, giving Faro a major theme to explore while Trixie has nothing more than a device to play with.

• quirky but entertaining
  "or to put it in terms you might understand,
  'The sword of damocles is hanging over pandora's box'..."

  This film is more proof that Wisdom and Intelligence are not the same thing. Trixie isn't very bright or well educated, but what she lacks in book-learning she makes up for in street smarts and good morals. She's not unnattractive, just rather plain.
  Cute, but not beautiful. Chews gum alot.
  Sort of a female "Columbo" but even dimmer.
  Just judging from her looks on the box cover
  of the VHS... more info

• Great dialogue
  Trixie is a uneducated and seemingly naîve, but surprisingly effective cop, who basically speaks in mangled metaphors and expressions.

  "I believe in taking the bull by the tail and staring him right in the eye."

  "No, you can't have a drink, you are not drinking yourself into Bolivia."

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