Lost Junction

Starring:Neve Campbell, Billy Burke, Jake Busey, Charles Edwin Powell, David Gow, Michel Perron, Amy Sloan, Norman Mikeal Berketa, Mariah Inger, Carlin Glynn, Joel Miller, Kwasi Songui, Matt O'Toole, Minor Mustain, Robert Burns (III), Dawn Ford, James A. Woods
Director: Peter Masterson
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

Could have been so much better
Attention To Detail Serves To Lift Level Of Comedic Melodrama.
Not bad...
A slow paced drama!
LOST JUNCTION LOSES

Lost Junction
Starring: Neve Campbell , Billy Burke , Jake Busey , Charles Edwin Powell , and David Gow
Director: Peter Masterson
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0002V7SPM
Release Date: 2004-11-09

Description

Neve Campbell (Scream, Wild Things) is a sultry Southern belle who may have taken thelife of her much older husband in this seductive and suspenseful thriller from the director of Full Moon in Blue Water. Hitchhiker Jimmy McGee (Billy Burke) gets the ride of his life when he accepts an invitation into Missy Lofton's (Campbell) car and discovers her deceased husband in the trunk. And when Missy abruptly liquidates all of Mr. Lofton's bank accounts and entices Jimmy into a road trip to New Orleans, things look even more suspicious, especially to a posse of policemen in hot pursuit. But not everything is as it seems in the steamy American South, where a woman is less willing to give up her secrets than her husband's fortune.

Customer Reviews:

Could have been so much better.......2007-05-31

Neve Cambell is such a good actress, but never seems to get any credit. This movie had everything, southern mystery, beautiful sad girl, a murder. It just never gets going, we don't know enough about Missy, car movie's are tricky sometimes they get very tedious. And I have to say Jake Busey was very good in this, not his usual obnoxious act. I think if we got to know the main character's better, this would have been a better movie. Enjoy!

Attention To Detail Serves To Lift Level Of Comedic Melodrama........2006-07-04

The opening shot of this pleasing film is enhanced by buoyant scoring from Normand Corbeil, and this reveals to viewers that the work that they are about to see is not meant to be noirish in nature, but instead, in an actor's scenario such as this, a general tincture of incongruity is to be established from the outset. Director Peter Masterson, with assistance from lead Neve Campbell, ensures that this is accomplished, while her co-lead Billy Burke consistently provides a foil for Campbell, both being aided by a well-crafted script credited to Jeff Cole, who also produces here. Drifter Jimmy McGee (Burke) is stranded with his broken-down automobile along a back road in an unidentified state in the American South when he is fortunately given a ride from Missy Lofton (Campbell), driving her vintage convertible, but he soon learns that Missy has more than altruism behind her offer of a lift, because she takes McGee with her to her bank in the small town of Lost Junction whereupon she withdraws her entire savings of over $320,000, after which she shows Jimmy the contents of her car's trunk: her dead husband. This all proves to be a bagful with which bewildered Jimmy must deal, and he decides to set off, by foot this time, along the same country road upon which Missy had found him, but she has other ideas and will not permit him to go his own way, Jimmy therefore discovering that he is tied to a woman whose sinister background is more startling than he could have expected, and the two of them, in addition to all other main characters from the screenplay, dovetail to a climactic meeting back in Lost Junction. The film's storyline unfolds in an interesting manner, and solid performances are turned in by the cast, with Campbell's reading being particularly effective, and director Masterson paces his scenes correctly, permitting the narrative's admittedly bizarre events to develop within a well-detailed and naturalistic framework. The editing of Peter Frank and cinematography by Thomas Burstyn, the latter utilizing beautiful Quebec locations, are invaluable, with all shooting occurring during daylight hours for this film that, largely as a result, becomes a whimsical character study that emphasizes its elements of mystery and romance, thereupon further negating any possible connection to the Noir genre.

Not bad..........2006-03-15

Fans of Neve Campbell will enjoy her in her role as Missy in Lost Junction. This movie wasn't bad, nor was it superd. Middle of the road I'd say, and I found it in the $5.50 bin at Wal-Mart so it's not like I wasted much on it. Lost Junction is a movie I certainly wouldn't mind watching again. Campbell as Missy stops and picks up a man who's car has broke down on the side of the road just outside her tiny everyone-knows-everyone town of Lost Junction and he gets sucked into the drama of her life. To say any more would really ruin an interesting movie. It kept me entertained the entire time I was watching it and I didn't expect the ending either. Great for killing some time or if you just want to veg out and watch something that's not too challenging. If you can find it for as cheap as I did or less, certainly worth a buy, otherwise try renting first.

A slow paced drama!.......2005-07-18

Despite the some edition problems and the presence of lagoons in the script, the story retains its interest. A disturbed woman in his early twenties, who has suffered sexual abuse of his own father and maltreats of his husband finds casually, a man in the middle of the road who eventually will help to dig in her life and face her demons.

LOST JUNCTION LOSES.......2005-04-26

Gaining stardom in the television series PARTY OF FIVE and then gaining movie notoriety with the SCREAM series, Neve Campbell has never really achieved the status many had predicted. Movies like LOST JUNCTION may be why. Director Peter Masterson (The Trip to Bountiful) never seems to focus on what kind of movie he's created. Is it one of those Southern film noir with the notorious femme fatale? Is it a black comedy without any true laughs? Or is it just simply a love story about two misguided people? It's a combination of all of them. Campbell is a femme of course, but I'm not sure she's too fatale. She plays a Southern lass (with a really bad accent) who gives a lift to drifter Billy Burke (Ladder 49). She then takes him to her bank and arranges to withdraw her total savings. Seems that Missy (Miss Campbell) is married to someone named Doc, and he's off on a trip somewhere. We know pretty soon, however, that Doc's body is in the trunk of her 1959 Cadillac. So from there we're asked to discover how Doc died and whodunit. Is it Missy's opportunistic boyfriend (Charles Powell, basically awful in his role); or did Missy herself bump him off? The premise is a reworking of the ridiculous Dixie Chicks song, GOODBYE EARL. You have an abusive spouse, so it's okay to kill him and get away with it. One thing of note in this film is the casting of usual badguy Jake Busey as Burke's old friend who is crippled because Burke pushed him off a cliff into a quarry and who has been guilt-ridden ever since. Once Busey is introduced (without the wild hair or manic look in his eyes), they don't know what to do with him so he just joins Burke as kind of a sidekick, but has nothing to contribute once the reunion occurs.
LOST JUNCTION is a misguided, inconsistent film, with loads of atmosphere but no real substance, and an ending that is so preposterous, it's hard to believe.

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