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Name: Dogfight
Released: 1991-9-13
Cast: River Phoenix, Lili Taylor, Richard Panebianco, Anthony Clark, Mitchell Whitfield

Dogfight

R
1h 33m
1991

87%

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River Phoenix and Lili Taylor star in a bittersweet story about losing innocence and discovering love. In November 1963, four young marines in San Francisco celebrate their last night before leaving to fight in Vietnam with a "dogfight," a competition in which the man who brings the ugliest date wins. Handsome Eddie Birdlace (Phoenix) convinces Rose(Taylor) to accompany him on a date--but he doesn't tell her she is part of the dogfight. Despite the pain he causes, Eddie discovers the last thing he expects ... love.

Director:

Nancy Savoca

Producer:

Peter Newman, Richard Guay, Cathleen Summers

Writer:

Bob Comfort

Cast:

River Phoenix, Lili Taylor, Richard Panebianco, Anthony Clark, Mitchell Whitfield, Holly Near, E.G. Daily, Sue Morales, Christina Mastin, Christopher Shaw, John Lacy, Brendan Fraser

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

87%

Reviews

Slant Magazine

Derek Smith

Nancy Savoca’s Dogfight is a stellar, singular example of 1960s nostalgia filtered through an early-’90s American independent filmmaking mindset.

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Battleship Pretension

Scott Nye

The film operates in a productive push-pull between a sense of nostalgia that’s endemic to 60s-set films made in the 90s, and an active examination of the misogyny and cruelty that gradually ramped up in the seemingly-idyllic culture during the 1950s.

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Combustible Celluloid

Jeffrey M. Anderson

The small, touching Dogfight mainly works because of the immense skill, presence, and chemistry of its two stars.

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Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack)

Marya E. Gates

A tender, bittersweet film with one of the most poignant endings of all time.

The jolt is in the intricate expressivity Savoca brings to the story, with a repertoire of precise and painterly images that highlight performances of assertive yet graceful physicality.

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Additional Info

Genre:Drama
Release Date:September 13, 1991
Languages:English
Captions:English
Audio Format:
Stereo

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