The Paperboy
In 1969 Florida, reporter Ward Jansenreturns to his Florida home-town to investigate a case involving a death row inmate with the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless. But into the mix comes the fiancée of the imprisoned convict who stirs up confusing feelings of love and lust for the young Jack.
7 May 1957, Dayton, Ohio, USA
16 August 1933, Los Angeles, California, USA
9 October 1989, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
6 September 1967, Canton, Ohio, USA
20 June 1967, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
13 September 1931, Chicago, Illinois, USA
21 August 1962, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
November 09, 2016
Daniels turns out to be the ideal director for a film about the tendency of desire to turn sane minds to guacamole.
November 09, 2016
The Paperboy doesn't deliver.
October 19, 2012
The Paperboy is southern Gothic wallowing in the swamp of low camp. And if the wallowing were deliberate, this might have been hugely funny.
August 04, 2013
There's something undeniably compelling about the cast's daringly go-for-broke performances... but Daniels fragments the narrative and throws in so many tricksy directorial touches that the whole thing becomes an annoyingly indulgent mess.
October 11, 2012
It's a movie that seems to have a mild form of heatstroke: it's blurry, as if filmed long ago, and feverish, and the story wanders all over the place as if lost in a bayou. When it's over, you want to wipe your brow.
October 19, 2012
Yes, it's a dizzying stew set to boil.
October 11, 2012
The Paperboy is over-the-top every which way you look.
October 18, 2012
The Paperboy bears some promise as a good-bad movie, but it unfolds as a bad-bad one.
November 09, 2016
[Daniels] can't find his directorial bearings.
July 21, 2013
The sweaty, lurid, self-serious nonsense is hard to take seriously, but I'll say this much for the film: it ain't boring.
October 26, 2012
"The Paperboy" is one of those rare examples where you might wish the movie was less faithful to the book.
May 10, 2016
The Paperboy is not all bad, but it isn't all good either. I'm not quite sure what Daniels wanted his audience to walk away with.
