The Quick and the Dead (1995)

Name: The Quick and the Dead (1995)
Released: 1995-2-10
Cast: Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, Leonardo Di Caprio, Roberts Blossom

R
1h 45m
1995

59%

age 16+

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In this edgy and darkly humorous Western, a mysterious young woman rides into the lawless town of Redemption to settle an old score that has haunted her since she was a child. She becomes swept up in a deadly quick-draw tournament and, in order to win her revenge, must compete in a contest in which gunslingers from all over put their lives on the line for fame and fortune.

Director:

Sam Raimi

Producer:

Joshua Donen, Allen Shapiro, Patrick Markey

Writer:

Simon Moore

Cast:

Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, Leonardo Di Caprio, Roberts Blossom

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

59%

Critics Consensus: The Quick and the Dead isn't quite the draw that its intriguing premise and pedigree suggest, but fans of nontraditional Westerns should have some rootin' tootin' fun.

Reviews

Reel Film Reviews

David Nusair

...a pared-down premise that's employed to predominantly entertaining (and sporadically spellbinding) effect by Raimi...

Frequent gun violence in quirky '90s Western.

The plot of this low-camp revenge thriller is little more than an excuse to line up one badass cowboy (or girl) opposite another and let the eyeball-to-eyeball fireworks fly.

Sam Raimi does a lot of interesting things in The Quick and the Dead and Sharon Stone plays a convincing female gunfighter, but the one-horse plot with no subplots to generate additional interest becomes a drag.

June 21, 2017

FULL REVIEW

Combustible Celluloid

Jeffrey M. Anderson

Raimi's movie borrows heavily from classic spaghetti westerns, but Raimi has a style of his own, and plenty of it.

June 21, 2017

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Common Sense Media

age 16+

Common Sense Says

Frequent gun violence in quirky '90s Western.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that The Quick and the Dead is filled with Western-style violence in the form of shoot-outs, gun and rifle play, fistfights, knife fights, and hangings. There also is a scene in which the rape of a young girl by an older man is strongly implied, and, in a flashback sequence, a young girl is forced to shoot a gun at her father, who is on the verge of being hung by bandits, and accidentally kills him. Although the general violence and mayhem isn't much different from classic Westerns, this movie does not shy away from showing, for instance, the hollow space left in the head after a bullet blasts through it. There is profanity ("chickens--t") and drinking and smoking. Families with older teens who enjoy Westerns will get a kick out of how this movie both celebrates and plays with the conventions and tropes of the genre.