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The Burning Plain

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Skinopsis

It's seems like fucking forever since we got a decent nude scene from Charlize Theron. It's like she got all actressy and forgot to be act-chesty. Well her nudity drought ends here goddamnit and goddamn if we didn't shoot a load in celebration... or maybe that was from wanking to her nude scene.

Sweet Charlie (we call her Charlie cause, y'know, we;re close like that) stars as a restaurant owner who makes a habit of banging the Mexican dudes who work in her restaurant and then getting all guilty about it and cutting herself (why is that watching Hollywood hotties cut themselves turns us on so much again?). Her nude scene comes towards the beginning as she pops out of bed wearing nothing at all and stands by the window showing off her boobage and superstar ass. Later she busts out with the rackage again while walking around. Kim Basinger, playing her mom, also shows off some butt, but we're not entirely sure that the butt is hers (not that we're directly accusing Ms. Basinger of stealing other people's butts, just that we fear she may have used a body double). Overall, this movie might depress some people but those people obviously weren't payiog attention when Charlie showed her tits.

-- Rick Stanko

3 Reasons To buy this film

Charlize Theron shows her tits for the first time in years!
Directed by the writer of 21 Grams.
Complicated and very dramatic.

Review

People are complicated. So why are so many movies about them pat and uncomplicated? Enter Mexico’s Guillermo Arriaga, who in his previous incarnation penned scripts for Alejandro González Iñárritu and Tommy Lee Jones that investigated the confusions and contradictions that drive most of us, while examining how both the past and geography can impact the present. Arriaga brings this mastery of psychoanalysis, time and place-shifting to The Burning Plain, his first feature-length film (after previously dabbling in shorts). His subject, not surprisingly, is human relationships in all their madding forms –- relationships between men and women, parents and children, relationships past and present, relationships from a distance and up close. The result is a puzzle whose pieces, at first, are still askew. Arriaga’s trademark fragmented writing style challenges his excellent cast and, as a director of actors, he brings out the best in Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger and newcomer Jennifer Lawrence.

-- Joe Baltake