No Place to Hide (1993 film)

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No Place to Hide
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Directed byRichard Danus
Written byRichard Danus
Starring
Cinematography Roberto D'Ettorre Piazzoli
Music by Robert O. Ragland
Production
company
Release date
  • April 16, 1993 (1993-04-16)
Running time
98 minutes
LanguageEnglish
Box office$135,004

No Place to Hide is a 1993 American detective film written and directed by Richard Danus and starring Kris Kristofferson. [1]

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Cast

Reception

The film was widely panned 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." [2]

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.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. 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."
  2. Harrington, Richard (19 April 1993). "'No Place to Hide' (R)". The Washington Post . Retrieved 2 July 2022.