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Release Date:
25 elokuu 2005 (Austria)
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Howard Spence (Sam Shepard) has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his...
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Awards:
1 win
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7 nominations
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watching paint dry on a minor masterpiece
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | James Roday | ... | 1st AD |
 | Jeffrey Vincent Parise | ... | 2nd AD (as Jeff Parise) |
 | Majandra Delfino | ... | 1st Girl |
 | Marieh Delfino | ... | 2nd Girl |
 | Sam Shepard | ... | Howard Spence |
 | George Kennedy | ... | Director |
 | Julia Sweeney | ... | Producer 2 |
 | Tim Matheson | ... | Producer 1 |
 | James Gammon | ... | Old Ranch Hand |
 | Tim Roth | ... | Sutter |
| Robin Twogood | ... | Patrolman |
 | Gabriel Mann | ... | Earl |
 | Fairuza Balk | ... | Amber |
 | Mike Butters | ... | Businessman |
 | Sarah Polley | ... | Sky |
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Rated R for language and brief nudity.
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122 min | 113 min (theatrical version)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Netherlands:AL |
Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) |
Singapore:NC-16 |
UK:15 |
Finland:K-3 |
Ireland:15A |
Sweden:7 |
Brazil:14 |
Australia:M |
Argentina:13 |
South Korea:15 |
Portugal:M/12 (Qualidade) |
Germany:6 (f) |
USA:R
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According to the director's DVD commentary, the casinos in Elko were "too crummy" for shooting. The casino scene was shot instead in the Peppermill and Rainbow casinos at Wendover, Nevada.
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Revealing mistakes: When Sky is first seen driving her truck, the gear shift is clearly in "Park".
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Earl:
[singing] Where is Howard? Who is Howard? We wanna know, we wanna know. Where is Howard? Who is Howard? Where did he go, where did he go? He's down in the ditches. He's down in the ground. Disappeared himself. He's no-where to be found! Where is Howard? Who is Howard? He's long gone, he's long gone.
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Lonely Man
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Wim Wenders' makes extraordinary movies about ordinary people. Whether the inhabitants are important personalities or 'little people', they are always especial because of their humanity.
When I did an internet movie quiz that supposedly answered the question, ¨If someone made a movie about your life, who would direct it?¨ I kinda hoped it would be Wenders. His characters are tiny flecks on a vast landscape, made infinitely interesting by fine observation and untiring attention. Each character is a mystery unravelling.
In 'Don't Come Knocking', we follow the almost incomprehensible actions of a leading Hollywood actor (played by Sam Shepherd) who absconds from a film set in the middle of the American desert. He is struggling to escape a lifelong persona of drink, drugs and women, but doesn't know what he is looking for or why he feels life has passed him by. He is nudged occasionally in the right direction by his mother, and followed by a mysterious young woman carrying her mother's ashes – and whose knowing smile gently holds back a reservoir of yet-to-be-explained emotion.
Wenders can never be accused of hurrying things along. His movies can be like watching paint dry – except that when the painting is finally ready to touch we may feel a masterpiece has just crystallized before our eyes. This is perhaps one of those occasions. Tim Roth as the inscrutable bond man tracking down the wayward actor is barely recognisable till half way through the film, so perfect is the characterisation. Sarah Polley as the mysterious Sky can almost make us burst into tears before we have any idea why, or of the secret she is holding. Shepherd plays Howard Spence with biopic-like conviction. Add a score by T-Bone Burnett that seems to suspend time in the desert with guitar chords that hang in the air, and framed scene upon scene that looks like a classic movie poster waiting to be discovered.
Don't Come Knocking is like one big Do Not Disturb sign on the things we most need to know and that no-one wants to tell us. It's why they're secret – and why we also have to know. The film takes a very long time to answer it's own puzzle but, if you can stand the pace, the result is ultimately worth it.