Anjelica Huston, Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange

Frank Chambers, a depression-era drifter ends up at a diner owned by Nick Papadakis, who offers Frank a job. Frank accepts the offer, and soon begins an affair with Nick's wife Cora. The adulterous lo...( read more  read more... )vers soon plot to kill Nick and share in the insurance money.

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PG, 2 hrs. 3 min.

Directed by: Bob Rafelson

Release Date: January 1, 1981

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DVD Release Date: August 27, 1997

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  • April 2, 2007
    Umm ... weird. In an average flick kinda way.
  • November 13, 2009
    Penso di averlo visto per la prima volta a 12-13 anni, e mi ricordo di averlo definito "porno". Awesome.
  • September 26, 2009
    outstanding nicholson performance
  • September 14, 2009
    Redeeming quality: Jack Nicholson.
  • September 4, 2009
    The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1981 film adaptation of a novel by James M. Cain. This version, based on a screenplay by David Mamet and directed by Bob Rafelson, starred Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange. The film was shot in Santa Barbara, California.
    "Frank, a drifter, stop...( read more)s at a rural California diner for a meal, and ends up working there. The diner is operated by a young, beautiful woman, Cora, and her much older husband, Nick, who is an immigrant from Greece. Frank and Cora have an affair. Cora (a femme fatale figure) is tired of her situation, married to a man she does not love, and working at a diner that she wishes to own and improve. She and Frank scheme to murder Nick in order to start a new life together without her losing the diner. Their first attempt at the murder is a failure, but ......
    Nikolson and Lange one of the sexiest couple ever!!!!!!!!!
  • August 27, 2009
    thans for add as friend
  • August 1, 2009
    Jaw-dropping sex scenes and a great performance by Lange. But the movie is incoherent, and the ending is a disappointment.
  • August 1, 2009
    for a PG movie, wow the whole thing for the most part was about sex and they had scene's throughout.
  • July 28, 2009
    Better than the original in some aspects (incides more in the romantic relation), but the rhytm is much more slow, and cinematographic tricks (shadows, music, suspense, camera use, actors, all what makes a good film noir) are inferior than the original version.
  • July 22, 2009
    i love this movie, Nicholson was great! It shows that what goes around comes around!

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