Juliette Lewis was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at eighteen for Cape Fear, playing a teenager being groomed, and the thumb scene with De Niro was largely improvised.
Natural Born Killers, Kalifornia and From Dusk till Dawn followed in a run of increasingly unsettling material.
She fronted the rock band Juliette and the Licks for years and toured heavily, which took priority over acting for a period. Yellowjackets brought a substantial late television return.
Juliette LewisNatural Born Killers (1994) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Oliver Stone made a satire about media appetite for violence that is itself a two-hour delivery system for violence. Tarantino wrote the story, disowned it, and asked…
George ClooneyThe tonal whiplash is the entire experience. From Dusk Till Dawn earns its 7 by being two completely different movies stapled together, and by the strange fact that the staple holds.
Beverly DAngeloChechik's 1989 American comedy depicting Clark Griswold's plans for a perfect family Christmas at his suburban Chicago home, which unravel through extended-family chaos, holiday catastrophe, and a frozen pool that becomes the screenplay's central comic obsession. Christmas Vacation is the…
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