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steve d The strange tone sinks it. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member An interesting find in the Drew Barrymore crate. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member An okay thriller. Drew Barrymore was good, but the movie itself was super predictable with some pretty cheesy moments and some bad acting. It was also trashy in a pretty comical way. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member I remember this coming out when I worked at a video store and thinking it was weird to see Drew Barrymore move from child actor ("ET," "Firestarter," "Cats Eye" etc.) into a more mature teen role, before her better known transitional films like "Poison Ivy" or "The Amy Fisher Story." The story here is a lurid thriller set in an Arizona trailer park, with Barrymore and her dad, Matt Frewer, finding themselves stuck in a trailer park. The trailer part is run by Susan Tyrrell and who's other residents include Richard Masur, Anthony Rapp and Jennifer Tilly, A series of murders start occurring at the park and the mystery of who's committing the murders is the main crux of the film, although the mystery isn't all that mysterious for anyone who's ever watched a thriller before. Written by Tommy Lee Wallace, who wrote the mini-series adaptation of "It" and the underrated "Halloween III: Season of the Witch," it's not a brilliant script, but the film does have a trashy appeal to it., even if the mystery isn't much of one. You also get Dick Miller as the town sheriff, so that never hurts. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Welcome to mid-drift USA. I know it's hard to imagine, but this film takes place in a world before cellphones where people could actually be stranded. In Far From Home, preteen rape bate Drew Barrymore, her irresponsible writer dad, and some strangers become stuck in a probably radioactive trailer town in the Nevada desert because of a gas shortage. A series of mysterious homicides ensue, and the action lies somewhere in-between a palpable nightmare and a Sunday afternoon made-for-tv movie. Serious props to the stellar screaming and bad parenting acted out by Susan Tyrrell. Tagline: A highly philosophical x-con uses a sniper riffle--hip or dangerous? Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member Kept me interested from start to finish. Excellent performance from a VERY YOUNG Drew Barrymore. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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Synopsis Charlie Cox (Matt Frewer) should have stopped for gas in California. While he's on a cross-country trip with his teenage daughter, Joleen (Drew Barrymore), his car hits empty in a creepy town in Nevada. With nary a drop of fuel to be found, Charlie and Joleen stop for the night at a dilapidated trailer park. There, Joleen catches the eye of two teenage boys, Jimmy (Andras Jones) and Pinky (Anthony Rapp) -- either of whom could be the serial killer currently terrorizing the town.

Director

Meiert Avis

Producer

Donald P. Borchers

Distributor

Vestron Pictures

Production Co

Lightning Pictures

Rating

R

Genre

Mystery & Thriller

Original Language

English

Release Date (Theaters)

Jun 30, 1989, Original

Release Date (Streaming)

Feb 1, 2009

Runtime

1h 26m

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