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Format: Laserdisc
Feb 1991
Rated R
Recording Mode: (unknown)
90 min.
UPC: 013023316669 |
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Movie Description
In Hal Hartley's first feature film, THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH, Josh (Robert Burke), a criminal who has just been released from prison, returns home to Lindenhurst, Long Island. There he's hired as a mechanic by Vic Hugo (Christopher Cooke), the owner of a local garage. Through a mutual interest in George Washington, Josh falls in love with Vic's daughter, Audry (Adrienne Shelly). However, their romance proves to be difficult due to Audry's possessive ex-boyfriend and the mystery surrounding Josh's past.
THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH effectively establishes Hartley's unique aesthetic, which is darkly humorous, oddly clever, and subtly meditative. Rather than merely hint at their thoughts, the characters in this film (and other Hartley films) tend to speak exactly what they're thinking, openly expressing things often left unsaid. A quirky take on the romantic comedy, this is the debut of a highly original American filmmaker.
Synopsis
Audry, a bored, college-bound 17-year-old passing the summer in her Long Island home, finally finds a little excitement when Josh Hutton comes riding into town. Josh has spent a stint in jail, and this, along with her desire to know why he went to prison in the first place, leaves Audry quite intrigued. So, she breaks up with her boyfriend and befriends Josh. Then, instead of going to college, Audry takes off for Manhattan to model, and move in with a photographer she really dislikes. But all the while she's still hankering for Josh.
Film Notes
Film was shot in a two week period in 1989.
Feature film debut for director Hal Hartley.
Produced by Action Features.
Shown at the AFI Festival in Los Angeles April 21, 1989.
Industry Reviews
"...[A] wildly hilarious black comedy....[Hartley] combines a rigorous social conscience with the exuberance of fresh comic thinking..."
Travers
"...It's fresh and actually gets somewhere....Hartley reveals a serious concern for how people tend to look at relationship as if they were business deals and how alienating the results are..."
Los Angeles Times - Kevin Thomas (08/17/1990)
"Hartley's determination to skew convention at every turn remains diverting."
Sight and Sound - Matthew Leyland (07/01/2004)
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