Critic Reviews
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Janet Maslin, New York Times
Mr. Bridges may not have breathed fire into this material, but he has preserved most of its better qualities. He has treated it with intelligence, respect and no undue reverence, assembling a coherent film that resists any hint of exploitation.
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Hal Hinson, Washington Post
The movie is like a Porsche outfitted with a lawn mower engine; there's not even enough juice to get the machine out of the driveway.
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fox is very good in the central role (he has a long drunken monologue that is the best thing he has ever done in a movie).
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Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Along the gruesome road to self-discovery, Bright Lights offers some entertaining, episodic, danceable highlights.
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Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central
Flyblown, devoid of pace and heat; it's such a mortician's slab that it's hard to even tell if the Fox performance is wasted on it, though I suspect it is.
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Cast
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Michael J. Foxas Jamie Conway -
Kiefer Sutherlandas Tad Allagash -
Phoebe Catesas Amanda
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Swoosie Kurtzas Megan -
Frances Sternhagenas Clara Tillinghast -
Tracy Pollanas Vicky
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