Amanda Plummer, Saskia Reeves

Eunice is walking along the highways of northern England from one filling stationto another. She is searching for Judith, the woman, she says to be in love with.It's bad luck for the women at the cash...( read more  read more... ) desk not to be Judith, because Eunice iseccentric, angry and extremely dangerous. One day she meets Miriam, hard of hearingand a little ingenuous, who feels sympathy for Eunice and takes her home. Miriam isvery impressed by Eunice's fierceness and willfulness and follows her on the searchfor Judith. Shocked by Eunice's cruelty she tries to make her a better person, butshe loses ground herself.

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Unrated, 90 min.

Directed by: Michael Winterbottom

Release Date: April 26, 1996

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DVD Release Date: June 11, 2002

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  • August 7, 2007
    There are moments in this film that are so searing, of such brutal honesty, that it becomes difficult to keep watching. Both leads absolutely bare (both literally and figuratively) themselves on screen, bravely, encompassing and embracing their fucked up characters.

    The film ...( read more)is structured like a killers-on-the-run road movie (Badlands, Kalifornia, Natural Born Killers) intercut with interview segments with one of the characters. The structure has its strengths and weaknesses, and the plot can be pedestrian at times, but it never betrays the characters. Michael Winterbottom has proven time and time again that he is a multi-talented director, and does an excelent job here, neither romanticizing what happens nor descending to the level of clinical study. The film is, first and foremost, empathic.

    I don't know who I would recommend this to, other than myself, as this is most definitely not an audience type film but independent art.
  • November 30, 2009
    Amanda Plummer is outstanding.
  • November 5, 2009
    That's the difference between "Butterfly Kiss" and an unregenerate piece of cheese like "Natural Born Killers" or a gender-politics bombthrower like "Thelma and Louise." It has no social agenda, which gives it its own bleak integrity. Like its heroines -- and lovers and madfolk t...( read more)he world over -- it's wholly occupied with chasing private demons and angels.

    Also check BADLANDS.
  • October 18, 2009
    While it doesn't represent one of my best favourite dramas, BF is certainly a decent proof for the 2 actress, and a pretty movie experience overall. Eunice and Miriam go through London highways looking for Judith, a mysterious woman loved by one of them. Neither miriam nor Eunice...( read more) are completely sane. The former has killed a lot of innocents; the latter has serious problems with the comprehension of the world around herself. a lot of pathos in the last sequences, whereas the feeling among them become more intense. A lot of scenes which explicit the masochism soul of this production.
  • November 19, 2007
    being different isnt always a good thing
  • August 1, 2007
    Terrible. Great soundtrack, but terrible film.
  • March 31, 2007
    http://www.flixster.com/static/images/done.gif
  • March 16, 2007
    Terrible movie, I though, but you may be interested.
  • December 30, 2006
    I love that, basically, the soundtrack is the album No Need To Argue by the Cranberries. Winterbottom should go back to fucked-up road movie and leave Iraq alone.
  • October 23, 2006
    eh. wtf
    seems like a dumb ass piece of shit.
    I WANNA SEE IT!
    **friday night retard movie

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