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The Hot Spot

Safe is never sex. It’s dangerous.

1990 · 2h 10m · R Crime, Romance, Thriller
Directed by Dennis Hopper

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Overview

Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities — and the local women — after he robs a bank.

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Fresh

The Hot Spot seeps with atmosphere, unfolds at a deceptively relaxed pace, steadily accumulates noirish grit, then dizzily plunges into a Lynch-like plumbing of the dark passions and nasty secrets at the heart of Main Street, USA.

Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh

The film might have been a camp hoot if it weren't for the fact that Hopper still believes in all this stuff - he likes his women molten, duplicitous, and in kinky high heels.

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh

For all its genre touches, ''The Hot Spot'' is best remembered for its little eccentricities.

Janet Maslin, New York Times
Fresh

I feel at home in movies like "The Hot Spot." They come out of that vast universe formed by the historic meeting of B movies and the idea of film noir - films about the soft underbelly of the human conscience.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten

[Madsen] keeps trying for Blanche DuBois and coming out with Gomer Pyle.

Hal Hinson, Washington Post

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