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Bobby: It's not just a car. It's a sixty-four-and-a-half Mustang convertible.
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Bobby: Is everybody fucking everybody in this crazy God damn town?
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Bobby: You're just an ignorant, inbred, tumbleweed hick.
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Jake McKenna: I got a mind to put you over my knee right now and paddle your ass raw!
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Bobby: 40,000 people die every day, Darrell. How come you're not one of 'em?
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Darrell: Ya think bad, then bad's what ya get.
Bobby: That's a pretty decent philosophy you got there.
Darrell: Yeah, well, no charge.
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Flo: Now you can fuckin' take it, or you can fuckin' leave it.
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Darrell: Damn. Gonna be another hot one today. Sometimes I don't even want to get out of bed. Course, I don't want to get out for the cold ones neither.
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Bobby: I don't know whether to fuck you... or kill you!
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Grace: And here I made you all hot and sweaty...
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Bobby: Listen to me you stupid fuck...
Darrell: No! You listen to me goddamnit! Ya sorry son of a bitch! You owe me money! And this car aint goin' no place 'till I get it!
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Bobby: And a waitress named Flo.
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Blind Man: Everything is everything. And everything is nothing, too.
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Jenny: Bye, Mister. Don't go nowhere without me. I wanna have your love child.
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Blind Man: Your lies are old but you tell them pretty good.
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Jake McKenna: [having sex with Grace from behind] You've been a bad girl, Grace!
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Toby N. Tucker: You know who I am? Toby N. Tucker. Everyone round here call me TNT. You know why?
Bobby: Let's see... they're not very imaginative?
Toby N. Tucker: 'Cause I'm just like dynamite. And when I go off, somebody gets hurt.
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Jake McKenna: A man with no ethics is a free man.
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Jenny: You like Patsy Cline? I just love her. I wonder how come she don't put out no more new records.
Bobby: She's dead.
Jenny: Oh... that's sad. Don't that make you sad?
Bobby: I've had time to get over it.
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Grace: [sitting on a bed, appearing as if she is about to seduce Bobby] Come here. You know what I wanna do? I wanna hang drapes...
[gets up and walks off]
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Bobby: Is everyone in this town on drugs?
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Jake McKenna: [having sex with Grace from behind] Oh, fuck it away, fuck it away! But it ain't ever gonna go away!
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Blind Man: It's the desert that makes you crazy. The loneliness out here. Nobody to talk to. People on the run.
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Grace: I bet right now, you don't know if you want to kill me... or fuck me.
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Grace: [laughing insanely] You hit me... Bobby!
[stops laughing]
Grace: You motherfucker!
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Grace: Don't you want to know? Was Jake my father? Was I fucking my daddy? Yes, I was! I was fucking my daddy! And I married him! I married him, okay? I just wanted to be a kid. And they took that from me. They treated me like meat. A piece of meat. Fuck him! Fuck the whole town, they deserve to die!
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Sheriff Virgil Potter: She liked fuckin' her papa.
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Bobby: See, that's the difference between you and me, and why you live here and I'm just passing through.
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Oliver Stone used such words as "liberating" and "fun" to talk about U Turn's relatively quick production schedule of 42 days. Stone's ideas of film fun, however, are something older generations would call sick. This film is a Southwestern noir tale about Bobby Cooper (Sean Penn), a hotshot who is stuck in the tight confines of Superior, Arizona, when his car breaks down. His subsequent adventure is a meatball comedy--loud, obnoxious, and violent, and stuffed with diffused light, a hot cast, and a no-fat Ennio Morricone score. This film has plenty of odd characters, but you never really find out much about them. Bobby's first encounters include a repulsive mechanic (Billy Bob Thornton under the grease) and a blind Indian (Jon Voight under the makeup). Then there's Grace McKenna (a sizzling Jennifer Lopez), who is as dangerous as the curves of her red sundress. Bobby's got time to kill, and Grace seems more than willing. Unfortunately, it seems that Bobby has never seen a movie such as A Touch of Evil; if he had, he would know it can only get worse. About the time Grace's husband, Jake (Nick Nolte), shows up, Bobby is knee-deep in murder plots and double-crosses. The first 40 minutes or so are "fun" to a point. Penn is the perfect near-creep to root for, and as he wanders back into town after meeting Grace, the eclectic characters pile up. But soon it gets monotonous, tiring, and just plain ugly. And when incest and bloody fights begin, the fun is gone. If Penn weren't so solid an actor and able to be empathetic in the most morose situations, the movie would be unwatchable at stretches. Lopez makes another good impression, but this is not a performance that stands out. Nolte, raspy and ill-looking, is the Lee Marvin of the '90s. Before U Turn is over, you are already wondering if Oliver Stone will do something else, something more important, soon. --Doug Thomas
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