Film
Cinema Rediscovered: Eureka
- Director
- Nic Roeg
- Certificate
- 18
- Running Time
- 130 mins
Having struck lucky in the Klondike, prospector Gene Hackman finds himself a hugely wealthy man 20 years on. But he’s not a happy chappy. “Once I had it all; now I just have everything,” opines the parnoid and suspicious moneybags as his daughter (Theresa Russell) marries a gigolo fortune hunter (Rutger Hauer) and wrong ‘un Joe Pesci unleashes the violence.
Slated as a “self-indulgent melodrama” back in 1983, when it was barely released, Nic Roeg‘s complex, multi-layered drama is ripe for reassessment. It makes a rare return to the big screen to conclude the The Balance of Things: the Cinematic Imagination of Nic Roeg strand of Cinema Rediscovered.
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