The Salton Sea Movie Review 2002

Feature debut by helmer Caruso is very good at getting down into the sleaze and grime of the world of methedrine addicts, dealers, and victims. Maybe too good. The parade of degradation drowns out everything else; the performances of Kilmer as the nominal hero, and D'Onofrio as kingpin/sadist Pooh-Bear, the time-addled plot that begs for concentration, and any sense that anything good will come from viewing this film. What it does, it does well, the question is, does anyone have the stomach to see it done?

Distribution

Warner Home Video, Inc., 5775 Linder Canyon Rd., Westlake Village, CA 91362, URL: http://whv.warnerbros.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 103 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Drug Use & Abuse, Flashback, Contemporary Noir, Widows & Widowers, Rogue Cops

Screenplay

Tony Gayton

Cast

Val Kilmer, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Goldberg, Luis Guzman, Doug Hutchison, Anthony LaPaglia, Glenn Plummer, Peter Sarsgaard, Deborah Kara Unger, Chandra West, B.D. Wong, R. Lee Ermey, Shalom Harlow, Shirley Knight, Meat Loaf Aday, Azura Skye, Danny Trejo, Josh Todd

Cinematography

Amir M. Mokri

Director

D.J. Caruso

Music

Thomas Newman

Other

Tom Cooney, Jim Page, Douglas Cumming, Karyn Wagner, Tom Southwell

Producer

Frank Darabont, Butch Robinson, Eriq LaSalle, Ken Aguado, Warner Bros.