Carried Away

I'm a big fan of Dennis Hopper - and this is one of his best works. I'm not sure if he came to the script or if this was just the perfect vehicle for his ability to play complexity -... Full review

Okay, seeing Dennis Hopper naked is not something that was on my list of things to do in my lifetime, but it was not the abomination that some of the reviews make it out to be. I give Hopper and... Full review

Sometimes it's completely incomprehensible to understand how "Carried Away", the excellent film by Brazilian director Bruno Barreto, is perceived by some of the contributors to this forum. "Carried Away" is a movie based on a novella by Jim Harrison with... Full review

**WARNING - THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS** 6 stars out of 10.The film started off in a very interesting fashion, with Dennis Hopper(one of my fave actors)playing a man named Joseph, a single, middle-aged mid-western farmer and school-teacher.The old house he... Full review

Often-volatile Dennis Hopper really gets a chance at a thoughtful dramatic performance here playing a Texas farmer and schoolteacher, semi-engaged to a fellow instructor, who is seduced by a teenage temptress. Low-keyed picture doesn't aim for shocking revelations or melodrama;... Full review

It's been interesting to watch Dennis Hopper grow up in films, from the skinny, scared kid in "The Sons of Katie Elder", to his iconic role as Billy in "Easy Rider", to the whacked-out journalist in "Apocalypse Now", to this... Full review

This is a beautiful and rare look at rural America in the 1960s. Dennis Hopper plays a schoolteacher with a gimpy leg who is quite unexceptional. He's middle-aged but still only engaged (to Amy Irving who is fantastic in this!)and... Full review

A well-written story peopled with memorable characters. A bit off-putting, though, in its use of full frontal nudity....rather than displaying passion, Dennis Hopper and Amy Irving just looked plain cold.And I do find it a bit of a male conceit... Full review

It's not a particularly shocking, scandalous, or incendiary deconstruction of human sexuality, which means it feels a whole lot like your average made-for-network movie --....those who simply wouldn't mind seeing Amy Locane in her birthday suit for 90-some minutes, Carried Away isn't exactly a bad movie;....The performances are exemplary, it must be said.....enjoys a go-nowhere romance with schoolmarm Amy Irving.....It's just a very dry and formulaic re-telling of a cautionary tale we know all too well by n ... Full Review

But this modestly successful acting experiment doesn't do much for the movie's other problems.....Beyond her predictable plot purpose --.... ... Full Review

They're both weak, but "Carried Away" is about weakness. And in "Carried Away," Brazilian director Bruno Barreto ("Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands") has mounted a European film--meaning that its humanity takes priority over moral orthodoxy, and the dominant moral tone is gray--on the emotional flatlands of the Midwest. ... Full Review

Carried Away'' is not a neat package. The young girl, namedCatherine, is played by Amy Locane , and Amy Irving plays Rosealee, the localwoman who has been courted so politely all these years. ... Full Review

Sounds like ... message-driven pop/rock reminiscent of BarlowGirl, Natasha Bedingfield, and Aly & AJ. At a glance ... judging by their sophomore effort, Carried Away just seems to get better with time in both music and lyrics. ... Full Article

Sounds like ... the bouncy, sugary, and vibrant pop/rock of Superchic[k], BarlowGirl, and ZOEgirl. At a glance ... the two sisters and one cousin are an enjoyable teen pop trio who play their own instruments over a sea of glowing... ... Full Article

Thoreau once observed that most of us endure a life of "quiet desperation." In the beautifully realized Carried Away, a middle-aged, country schoolteacher, finding himself at a seeming dead end in his life, defies his destiny by engaging in an... ... Full Article

Whatever you think about Carried Away , give it points for originality. Paul Kostick's story gives us a man who, on a whim, decides to steal his favorite painting -- a Vermeer -- from the local museum. ... Full Article

U.S. Distributor: Fine Line Features For the most part, Dennis Hopper is known as a psycho villain of the first order. Consider this resume: the off-the-wall sleazeball in Blue Velvet , the mad bomber in Speed , and the nutcase... ... Full Article