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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303637624
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6303637620
Label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Release Date: January 21, 1997
Running Time: 103 minutes
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: March 03, 1995
Sales Rank: 3248




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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
In spite of its atrociously misleading packaging, Exotica is a beguiling mystery by enigmatic Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, in which people and their relationships are not what they seem. What at first appear to be disparate stories of a tormented tax auditor, a lonely pet-shop owner, and a sensitive stripper and her coworkers gradually merge to reveal a larger, interconnected portrait. The sequences involving Mia Kirshner's schoolgirl stripper are particularly engrossing because of her character's intelligence and the scenes' deeper subtext. Indeed, Exotica is less about stripping than about fragile human relationships, and it is not until the truly revelatory final scene that we are able to fully absorb the film's deeper meaning. --Bryan Reesman



Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Boring, long, wrong title!
If you buy this movie thinking that you buy an exotic or "erotic" (judging by the cover) movie you are WRONG! The movie is so boring and the story so long and stupid that the director should have definately picked another title for it! Exotic? where? This is one of those "delicatessen" movies that a few people judge as good because some "real" reviewers (were they drunk?) judged as good,
There isn't really anything interesting about it and there isn't anything that keeps you from wanting to ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - More of a woman's POV movie than might be expected
Atom Egoyan's Exotica is an outstanding movie. I have seen Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter (1997) which is also very good. A father's (obsessive) love for his daughter(s) is featured in both movies, consequently the theme must mean something special to Egoyan. He is a most talented and original movie maker, a Canadian as are his players, Bruce Greenwood, (Francis Brown, the accountant whose daughter was murdered), Sarah Polley, (Tracey, the high school girl), and Mia Kirshner, (Christina, the exotic ... Read More



Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Great movie, poor transfer
I won't go very far into discussing the content of the film here - suffice to say that I think it's probably one of the greatest movies made in recent years and well worth 5 stars. Atom Egoyan is a genius and this is probably his best film to date - an atmospheric mystery which keeps the viewer guessing until the final reel. The script is a masterpiece, Egoyan deftly handles the story and the actors (even the very young ones) all play their roles with the right level of depth and subtlety. As others ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - "You Have To Ask Yourself What Brought The Person To This Point?"
This is an undiscovered gem of a film with an incredibly inventive and powerful script that is sure to suprise and please. 'Exotica', a "Gentleman's Club", is the focal point of a world in search of meaning. Men come not just to watch beautiful women sensually dance in various stages of undress. They come to forget, however briefly, the pain and suffering they have experienced in the world outside.

Christina (Mia Kirshner) and Eric (Elias Koteas) work at the club, Christina as a dancer, Eric ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Seductive, Mysterious, Revealing
Having seen "Exotica" several times now, I can say that knowing the ending does not detract from the seductive power of the film. Very watchable, a multi-layered plot and aural feast - I want to work at the Exotica! If you enjoyed the movie "The Usual Suspects" for its left-field conclusion, this film should appeal to your puzzle solving nature, although the two movies could not be less alike in their sensitivity, style, and humanity. I thought of giving it 4 Stars because it didn't quite connect effortlessly, ... Read More



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