who greenlighted this banality? nothing but an empty imitation of a real movie, drivel with nothing to say. Oooh, gratuitous religious imagery! Oooh, stringy-haired unsmiling bad guy! Ooooh, slack-joker-smile Gina Gershon playing, big reach here, a dull-brained gold digger! Forgettable characters without any depth; hell they even made Dennis Hopper into a watered-down version of himself, just imitating all his other characters. so sad when you get partway into a movie and you just don't want to bail, hoping the ending will resolve something, then when you get there, you just hate yourself. Found this one on my girlfriend's shelf on a slow night. It went in the trash after i finished it, wouldn't even give it away.

..... unintentionally funny movies. Not being an actor I still know that had I been cast in this thing I would have had to do many takes; laughing during scenes that one should not have been laughing in: The character Kelly, near the end of the movie, portentously looks at the normally turbulent winter ocean scene and says, "I think there's a storm coming"! No kidding, Ms. Meterorologist.: Poorly written script that through redundancy made sure you 'got the point': Gina Gerson doing a bad impersonation of a sexy woman: Dennis Hopper directed to show way too much 'feeling' and 'softness'; this guy was number one choice for the Mafia in Chicago?: Hopper knows that Simeon has ripped off a dozen or so cases of his bar's booze and does nothing about it!: Haven't Pierre and Simeon ever watched any of the CSI's?; they left fingerprints ........ everywhere!: Handcuffs on Gerson that she slipped out of?; doesn't the screenwriter know how police handcuffs work?: Simeon suspects the heavily disabled Harry of pulling off two killings and the robbery? - Pierre 'knows' that Simeon is going to be in the church praying after the killings?..... and then Simeon, offered proof by the virginal Pierre that he had jewelry lifted from the robbery.....let's him go?! Since I was unable to find any evidence that 'Out of Season' was ever reviewed in a theatrical release, then it must have been a straight-to-DVD deal. Bravo to the distributors for not buying this piece of garbage and bravo to the producers for seeing how bleak the movie's financial future would be in trying to release it theatrically and instead cutting their losses and going to cable/dish.

Seeing Dennis Hopper, Gina Gershon, and Dominique Swain (Face/Off, Lolita) is reason enough to like this neo-noir thriller. A bonus is David Murray (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, who plays an ultra-religious scumbag.What appeared to be a simple case of a girl wanting to keep a drifter in town for her own pleasure, turned into a complex web of deceit and double-crossing that blew up because someone was thrust in the middle.It was fascinating to watch, but more fascinating to see Hopper as a burned out thief, Gershon as a real bitch, and Swain playing everyone against each other.

I was lucky enough to get a preview of this film in London, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's quite a gripping drama/thriller that unfolds against the backdrop of a bleak,non-descript seaside resort as it shuts down for the season. I don't want to give too much away about the story line, but the movie it most reminded me of is The Grifters. The acting quite literally blew me away. There are 3 standouts performances though. I think Dennis Hopper gave his best performance since Blue Velvet. In certain scenes his emotions are so raw you feel it in your stomach--Oscar calibre stuff. Jordan Frieda (Lulu's son) delivers as Pierre the protagonist (and I use the term protagonist very loosely). And David Murray--oh my... This guy just exudes evil as Simeon. Shame that the AFI's list of Greatest Movie Villians has already been published. He will definately make the list when it's refreshed. Simeon is the most complex character in the film and David Murray plays him perfectly. Excellent direction by Jevon O'Neill--he has created quite a haunting movie, with enough twists and turns to keep you guessing until the end and will leave you with a sense of longing for the other half of humanity--the good half.