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www.franksreelreviews.com - : In Sordid Lives, playwright Del Shores directs and adapts his wildly popular play of the same name to the big screen. It is a busy little coming-out-of-the-closet comedy that pokes fun at white trash in general and Texas white trash specifically. While the story probably works better on the stage than it does as a movie, the dialogue and the acting are brilliant and seem to keep the thing afloat long enough to never seem boring. more...
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efilmcritic.com - : This opinion is not shared by everybody in this small Texas town who are busy unravelling a bigger knot. Ty's grandmother died in a motel room she was sharing with her daughter's best friend's husband. The intimate interweaving of this soap opera of a tale becomes more dense and surprisingly, it is the spiritually inspired love and compassion that is the knife that cuts through the dense shroud of pain. more...
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www.movie-gurus.com - : 'Sordid Lives' strives to be a good wacky comedy, and nearly makes it. I did feel a kind of affection for it when it was over: the cast is a talented and funny one, and some of the scenes are hilarious, and when the movie works, it really works. Too bad, then, that the technical details are so shoddy, and that some of the characters keep interrupting the looniness with unwanted bulletins from the real world. more...
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