Sunset

Sunset (1988)

  • 17% of critics liked it
    (12 reviews)

  • 36% of users liked it
    (2,613 ratings)

Director Blake Edwards departed from his customary sex farces to direct an unusual satirical Western comedy-thriller. In 1927, legendary lawman Wyatt Earp (James Garner) comes to Hollywood to serve as an advisor to a film studio making a movie about Earp's life. He meets silent screen cowboy… More

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Jan 1, 1988 Wide
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Vincent Canby, New York Times

    It's a plot that unravels on its own, without characters, without anything, not even a point of view. It's a zombie.

  • Hal Hinson, Washington Post

    Ultimately, Sunset plays like deluxe dinner theater fare. It's a diversion to take along with your after-meal coffee and dessert.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    Half of the movie wants to be cheerful, and the other half seems morbid and disenchanted.

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    A tale that is not quite a comedy, or a murder mystery, or a crime thriller, or an expose of Hollywood slime, but manages to make half-hearted stabs in all these directions.

  • Chuck O'Leary, FulvueDrive-in.com

    One of the biggest flops of 1988, Blake Edwards' Sunset is highly uneven, but gorgeous period production values and the easy-going charm of Garner and Willis save it.

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  • David S


    Re-watched this last night with my dad. We used to watch this film over and over when I was younger and although I never remember it being great I always used to enjoy it. It's still fun and the film has a great period detail look to it. Bruce Willis wasn't yet the big star… More

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