Product Description

Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 05/23/2006 Run time: 113 minutes Rating: R

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #79947 in DVD
• Brand: Lions Gate
• Released on: 2002-12-17
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 113 minutes

Amazon.com
Largely a puffed-up display of attitude, Keys to Tulsa stars Eric Stoltz as the black-sheep son of a wealthy Oklahoma family who appears out of nowhere and immediately gets involved with a blackmail scheme, an old girlfriend, guns, and a stripper. There isn't much compelling narrative to back any of this outré stuff up; it's indie-film posturing, though not without some attractive reasons to watch. Mary Tyler Moore's and James Coburn's presence certainly bring freshness to the otherwise overly-familiar indie cast. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews

Joanna Going -- WOW!
It's offensive that Cameron Diaz is on the cover of this thing, when her mediocre part is over just about as soon as the credits.

Joanna Going gave her all, meanwhile, and isn't mentioned on the box at all. I bought the DVD to see her, and every red-blooded male out there bought it for the same reason. Who are they kidding with this Cameron Diaz jazz? It's a taut mystery story, too, with real characters in an unreal situation. I loved it.

Cool little film; lousy DVD release!
I could hold forth on the relative merits of this DVD's entertainment value--you get to see some weird incarnations of various prominent actors, James Spader looking particularly weird; not that many flicks set in Oklahoma these days; Joanna Going carried the film, etc. etc.--but instead I think I'll criticize the DVD itself. First off, it has exactly ONE "special feature" (production stills, at that!). Furthermore, not only does this disc lack the extended cut (missing 3 minutes, this is just the R-rated version), it is also, most pathetically of all, full-frame only. Come on! This is a 2002 release of a **1997** film, and somehow they couldn't manage a widescreen edition. Has the distributor already been repossessed or something? It's DVDs like this that make me doubt for the future of the medium. Get with the program, Artisan!

I don't get what the reviewers' problem is.
Maybe the well-known people didn't amount to much, certainly Cameron Diaz's part wasn't much, though she did it well, but Joanna Going took my breath away. What's the matter with critics?