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Year:	1993
Country of origin:	USA
Director:	Dominic Sena
Genre:	Serial killer thriller
Starring:	Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, Michelle Forbes, David Duchovny
Rating:	4/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107302/
Tagline:	A state of fear and terror
Favourite line:	"Well, you're a widow now, Peaches."

A surprisingly effective thriller, this.

David Duchovny and Michelle 'Ensign Ro' Forbes are a successful, professional couple, he a writer, she a photographer.
Forbes is desperate to move to California and, in an act of compromise, Mulder agrees to the move on the condition that, along the way, they visit sites of historical interest concerning famous serial killers. His idea: he writes the words, she takes the pictures, with the end result a bestselling coffee table book that will set them up for life.
To help finance the trip, they decide to car share and advertise the fact. As their bad luck would have it Brad Pitt sees the advert and, shortly after killing his landlord, he and his girlfriend, Juliette Lewis, meet the writer couple and begin their cross country trek. Inevitably, mischief ensues.

Pitt is outstanding as the genuinely chill inspiring Early Grayce and is capably backed up by Lewis playing her customary white trash character that seems to be her default setting.
Duchovny and Forbes make for a convincing double act too and, as events spiral out of control, you as the viewer are sucked into their plight and can feel the tension ratcheting. Intelligent, sinister and beautifully shot, this deserves recognition beyond its current status.
A top movie.