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White Sands [DVD]

Willem Dafoe (Actor), Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (Actor), Roger Donaldson (Director) Rated:
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Genre Drama
Format Widescreen, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Letterboxed
Contributor Daniel Pyne, Mickey Rourke, Samuel L. Jackson, Beth Grant, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, James Rebhorn, Miguel Sandoval, Fredrick Lopez, Willem Dafoe, M. Emmet Walsh, Maura Tierney, John Lafayette, Roger Donaldson, Alexander Nicksay See more
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 41 minutes
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Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 1-JUN-2004
Media Type: DVD

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Set in the cinematically picturesque Southwestern desert, Willem Dafoe plays a small-town lawman called out to a remote location after a dead body is found by some tourists. Along with the body, there is a briefcase with half a million dollars in it. Well, he becomes absolutely obsessed in solving the case. The audience never knows why he feels the need to solve this case instead of turning it over to the federal authorities, other than to spice up his otherwise boring job. Judging by his muscle car and quest for adventure, and despite being happily married with a kid, he seems to be going through a bit of a mid-life crisis. He gets his adventure when he finds a phone number on (actually in) the dead man's body, calls it, gets some instructions, and decides to go undercover as the dead man. Pretty soon he's meeting up with a shady Mickey Rourke and falling for Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. Meanwhile, the script goes through plot twists and double and triple crosses. The strangest thing is that the movie works. It's a lot of fun, and Dafoe plays the most difficult and unbelievable character with such an easy charm it's hard not to go along with him. --Andy Spletzer

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.35:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.25 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 1.6 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Roger Donaldson
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Widescreen, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Letterboxed
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 41 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ July 11, 2000
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Willem Dafoe, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Mickey Rourke, Samuel L. Jackson, M. Emmet Walsh
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ French, English
  • Language ‏ : ‎ French (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Unqualified
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Warner Home Video
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0790750198
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Daniel Pyne
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
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Mom's favorite
5.0 out of 5 stars Quite good...action and actors make it work
Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2022
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For the material, the script, this was well directed and well acted. The script/plot is unexceptional, but the action and actors are very entertaining.
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Renee Grate
4.0 out of 5 stars All star cast...Willem DaFoe, Samuel L. Jackson, and many more.
Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2021
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Pretty good movie...lots of action, and lots of crooked cops, FBI and CIA. Killed way too many people in the movie. Best part was when "Somebody was running over the mountains of white sand" and the helicopters were catching up to him. The look on his face when the brief case opened up...Awe sorry folks...can't give you actual characters or storyline, that would be like reading the last 10 pages of a Novel and deciding to read the book afterall. Brave actions of the lead role. Hard to rate a movie when we don't know who the cops or robbers actually are.
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JimmyCanDo
5.0 out of 5 stars . Great government intrigue, murder mystery and love story all rolled into one
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2020
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Second time I've watched this movie and I can see why I liked it so much the first time. Great government intrigue, murder mystery and love story all rolled into one. ALL the actors are wonderful. Even the soundtrack is intriguing and very original.
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Milo
3.0 out of 5 stars "White Sands" (1991) isn't always easy to follow...
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2021
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Willem Dafoe plays a small-town New Mexico sheriff named Ray Dolezal who stumbles upon a corpse clutching a suitcase containing half a million dollars. Dafoe is originally from Appleton, Wisconsin, and leads an all-star cast of Samuel L. Jackson, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,and Mickey Rourke before the plastic surgery. "White Sands" unfolds as a shifting plot that is absorbing, and tightly coiled thriller, but not always easy to follow...
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Bonmot
1.0 out of 5 stars If Amazon Is Going To CENSOR Language They Should Be Up Front About It
Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2022
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How is bleeping out a handful of rough words going to protect the sensitive audience that sits down to watch a violent movie? It is so childish. Dropping the audio out when Samuel L. Jackson says, "We're going to come down and ---- you up" is NOT erasing what he said. It's just making the film annoyingly unwatchable. There are movies made for family audiences and there are movies that aren't. This isn't a family film just because you mute a few bits of salty dialogue. "Hey Grandma! Grab the kids and let's watch a movie with a graphic corpse and autopsy scene and an explicit gunfight! Don't worry, though. There's no dirty words."

If I were to watch this film on network TV (which I wouldn't), then the ridiculous censorship would be no surprise. This came over a paid streaming service so it's outrageous. I've come across a film streaming over Netflix that does this BS from time to time, but that's free so beggars can't be choosers. But if I find one more example of this on Amazon I'm cancelling my Prime.
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michael marsicano
5.0 out of 5 stars great movie great cast. a fun adventure
Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2021
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good plot, great acting, shot well. a decent adventure. some reviewers complaining about content edits. they dont hurt the film get over it people. this is a fun modern noir....enjoy it for what it is....
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Magier
4.0 out of 5 stars all sand, no ocean
Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2009
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i've got to fly to el paso, rent a car, and drive up to white sands. a plan for years, but never went, so far..so i watch the movie again.
great rourke, a favorite from so many other movies, and samuel jackson when i still thought he was related to the general.
weird plot, varied characters, violence and sex, with at least one indian, and a bunch of horses. those who are more or less clean survive, the evil doers perish. nice and straightforeward. a western with the good guy in a white hat and corvette. the girl rich and with horses. samuel jackson with white sand.
it all adds up to a good time, well worth the popcorn and pepsi.
think i'll get another pepsi, it's dry out here..........
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5.0 out of 5 stars WHITE SANDS
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2020
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My family has a cabin in Red River, NM. I consider NM my home. This movie was filmed in NM and I saw many of my old stomping grounds, Taos, Taos messa. The movie was good too. Worth it.
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Carnol
5.0 out of 5 stars Thriller à intrigues multiples
Reviewed in France on March 27, 2022
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Sorti en salles en 1992, mis en images par Roger DONALDSON il y a trente ans, ce thriller complexe n’a pas pris une ride et se regarde toujours aussi bien, servi par un casting de premier plan, dont certains acteurs ont depuis disparu de la scène, tandis que d’autres perdurent encore de nos jours. A regarder avec un brin de nostalgie, tout en appréciant les différentes intrigues qui s’entremêlent.
Ma critique portera sur l’édition DVD, puisqu’il n’y a malheureusement toujours pas de version Blu Ray à disposition en France. Le disque délivre un très bon rendu, l’image est superbe et se révèle nette et précise, affichant de belles couleurs et le contraste est très soutenu. Côté son, la version française, comme la version originale sous-titrée en français, sont proposées sur la même bande son : en Dolby Digital 5.1, cette dernière reste à privilégier, en raison de son dynamisme et de la clarté des dialogues, dont la justesse des voix originales, reste inégalée.
Un homme est retrouvé mort en plein désert, avec une mallette de 500 000 Dollars à ses côtés. Le Shérif Ray Dolezal est chargé de l’enquête, sur place, il découvre un numéro de téléphone et décide de se faire passer pour la victime, ce qui le conduit dans un hôtel situé à Taos, où il se fait agresser par deux femmes mystérieuses, qui lui fixent un rendez-vous avec un homme dénommé Lennox. En pleine nuit, il se fait enlever par deux agents du FBI qui le trainent dans leur QG, afin de lui expliquer le rôle de l’homme retrouvé mort au sein de leur organisation.
Partant d’une trame générale mainte fois développé dans d’autres films : un homme est retrouvé mort et un fonctionnaire de la justice, mène l’enquête. Mais derrière ce concept de base, se cache un scénario malin et efficace, capable de brouiller les apparences, révèlant des secrets et des motifs ambigus, tels des pièces de puzzle, menant vers plusieurs pistes probables, au premier abord sans recoupement, mais qui débouchent vers une conclusion finale, qui met tout le monde d’accord.
En première ligne, pour porter la vision du réalisateur, un casting en béton qui réunit des acteurs chevronnés : Willem DAFOE, fait assez rare pour être souligné, incarne le héros principal (en lieu et place des méchants qu’il maitrise complétement dans ses autres films) et sait parfaitement traduire toutes les facettes de son personnage ; Mickey ROURKE interprète un protagoniste à la fois mystérieux et dangereux, dont l’ambiguïté est très bien mise en valeur par le comédien, alors au top de sa forme ; Mary Elisabeth MASTRANTONIO campe une associée surprenante, intelligente et mature dans ses décisions, sachant surfer sur un côté nébuleux que l’actrice assure merveilleusement ; enfin l’éternel Samuel JACKSON incarne un agent du FBI des plus atypique et très trouble, toujours sur le fil du rasoir, le comédien arrive à faire ressentir comme un gant que son personnage est capable du meilleur comme du pire, livrant une performance à la hauteur.
Voici un très bon film, relativement méconnu, qui assure un excellent divertissement, sans jamais perdre de vue l’essentiel, satisfaire le spectateur, à ce titre, il mérite largement d’être vu.
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5.0 out of 5 stars White Sands
Reviewed in Canada on September 7, 2019
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I watch this movie years ago and was struck by how greed can corrupt despite the harm to persons or country. It made me appreciate the honest members of society who serve our cities and countries even more. I wanted to have this in my collection.
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M. Rapp
5.0 out of 5 stars Fab Crime Thriller with a bit of Believable Gritt.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 17, 2013
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This is a great movie! It's not ridiculous by being sensational and crazy with superhuman fantasies like Terminator or Fast and Furious. This is a great twisting and turning crime thriller with some of Hollywood's finest thrashing it out! Willem DeFoe, Samuel L. Jackson and Mickey Roarke all give stellar performances. The plot thickens every ten minutes as the kaos unfolds and before you know it you're in a world where you can't make sense of what's actually happening and what's right and wrong and who's good and who's bad. Of course you know you're in that territory when someone reveals to you that they're CIA just before they leave you in the desert... Great film! One for the collection for sure! You WILL want to see it again.
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4.0 out of 5 stars White Sands
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 1, 2023
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I watched it, it was a dvd
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Domiboop
4.0 out of 5 stars Sables mortels
Reviewed in France on May 25, 2023
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DVD VF OK, bonne qualité, bon thriller beaux paysages au pays des navajos.
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