My New Gun
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Director Stacy Cochran Duration Country United States | 5.6/10 IMDb Genre Comedy Screenplay Stacy Cochran Writer Stacy Cochran Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 26 October 1992 Cast (Debbie Bender), James Le Gros (Skippy), (Kimmy Hayes), (Chris), (Gerald Bender), (Irwin Bloom)Similar movies The Most Dangerous Woman Alive , Snake Island , Knock Knock , Mission: Impossible II , Django Unchained , Goofballs Tagline A comedy about the American dream. |
My new gun trailer 1992
My New Gun is a 1992 American satirical comedy film directed by Stacy Cochran. It stars Diane Lane, James Le Gros, Stephen Collins, and Tess Harper, with an early minor role for Philip Seymour Hoffman. The film is about a husband who buys his respectable New Jersey housewife an unwanted revolver which she later comes to enjoy. My New Gun is the first of Cochran's feature films, directed shortly after she graduated from Columbia Film School.
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Production

My New Gun was shot on a budget of $2.1 million, financed from IRS and Columbia-TriStar HomeVideo. It was shot on location in Teaneck, New Jersey, and a townhouse was utilized for the interior of multiple homes.
Release and reception

The film was a commercial failure that met with mixed reviews. One critic panned it and said, "after seeing this film I need a new gun so I can shoot myself." But the film was praised by another critic for its "masterfully understated structure" and eccentricities, which some considered to be influenced by Thelma and Louise or an update of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House. Terrence Rafferty of The New Yorker praised the film for its cinematography and stated that "Cochran’s screenplay delights in fouling up the audience’s expectations". Emanuel Levy has noted the way in which "the gifted director Stacy Cochran examines suburbia in a manner devoid of the usually nasty, mean-spirited approach to the subject", and unlike other downtown New York films, it "displays no irony or condescension; yet its quirkily laconic, minimalist perspective goes against expectations."
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