History Film / UTurn

''U Turn'' is a 1997 neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Creator/OliverStone, starring Creator/SeanPenn, Creator/BillyBobThornton, Music/JenniferLopez, Creator/JonVoight, Creator/PowersBoothe, Creator/JoaquinPhoenix, Creator/ClaireDanes and Creator/NickNolte.

* ShaggyDogStory: Bobby finds himself in a lot of trouble by accident due to a misunderstanding and is just trying to make his way out of a nasty town when he gets the mob onto him. His only exit out is his car, but then it breaks down and he needs to get it fixed. Meanwhile people are trying to kill him, and the girl he falls for turns against him and is out to kill him too. [[spoiler: When the car is finally repaired he finds she stole his keys. Out of desperation to get out of this town he strangles her to death and retrieves the keys, but not before she shoots him in the guy. As he lays wounded, he finally makes it back to his car to drive off only to find the mechanic who repaired his car duped him and it breaks down again. The last scene is of Bobby resigning himself to die from his wound.]]

* PlotTwist: [[spoiler: Jake and Grace are initially thought to be husband and wife with a considerable age difference. In a plot twist, it is revealed that after the death of her mother, Grace married her father Jake.]]

* ShaggyDogStory: Bobby finds himself in a lot of trouble by accident due to a misunderstanding and is just trying to make his way out of a nasty town when he gets the mob onto him. His only exit out is his car, but then it breaks down and he needs to get it fixed. Meanwhile people are trying to kill him, and the girl he falls for turns against him and is out to kill him too. [[spoiler: When the car is finally repaired he finds she stole his keys. Out of desperation to get out of this town he strangles her to death and retrieves the keys. As he lay dying, he finally makes it back to his car to drive off only to find the mechanic who repaired his car duped him and it breaks down again. He resigns himself to his fate.]]

* AgeGapRomance: For being a happily married couple, Jake looks old enough to be Grace's father. [[spoiler: Turns out he is.]]

* IgnoreTheFanService: Among all the other annoying people Bobby encounters is a reasonably attractive local girl (she's played by Creator/ClaireDanes after all) who may or may not be underage (though she certainly acts like it) who keeps throwing herself at him, perhaps as a possible ticket out of town. Even though he keeps rebuffing her, her interest provokes the jealousy of her hotheaded boyfriend, who keeps getting in Bobby's face for it, and ends up causing him problems.

-->'''Jake:''' ''(walks in on Grace and Bobby kissing)'' Grace!
-->'''Grace:''' Jake! I thought you were in Phoenix!
-->'''Jake:''' Who the hell is this?!
-->'''Bobby:''' Who the hell are you?!
-->'''Jake:''' I'm her husband!
-->'''Bobby:''' Husband?

* {{Cloudcuckooland}}: Superior, Arizona, the town where Bobby gets stranded, is depicted in this way. The women shown act as femme fatales straight out of a noir film, which might not be bad... if the men didn't act as {{Crazy Jealous Guy}}s. Except the mechanic. He's just nuts (and will do additional work on your car so that he can charge a higher price for the work). Lampshaded by Bobby:

* InterruptedIntimacy: Just as Bobby gives Grace a BigDamnedKiss, her husband Jake bursts in on them.
-->'''Jake:''' (walks in on Grace and Bobby kissing) Grace!

* PlotTwist: [[spoiler: Jake and Grace are initially thought to be husband and wife. In a plot twist, it is revealed that after the death of her mother, Grace married her father Jake.]]

* WhamLine: Sheriff Potter delivers one to Bobby about Grace.
-->'''Sheriff Potter:''' [[spoiler: She liked fuckin' her papa.]]

-->'''Grace:''' [[spoiler: Don't you want to know? Was Jake my father? Was I fucking my daddy? Yes, I was! I was fucking my daddy! And I married him! I married him, okay? I just wanted to be a kid. And they took that from me. They treated me like meat. A piece of meat. Fuck him! Fuck the whole town, they deserve to die!]]

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* IgnoreTheFanservice: Among all the other annoying people Bobby encounters is a reasonably attractive local girl (she's played by Creator/ClaireDanes after all) who may or may not be underage (though she certainly acts like it) who keeps throwing herself at him, perhaps as a possible ticket out of town. Even though he keeps rebuffing her, her interest provokes the jealousy of her hotheaded boyfriend, who keeps getting in Bobby's face for it, and ends up causing him problems.

A drifter named Bobby is on his way to pay off a large debt of $13,000 to a gangster in Las Vegas when his car breaks down, forcing him to drive to the nearest town, Superior, Arizona. While waiting for his car to be fixed by the town mechanic, he wanders around the town where, everything that can go wrong, does go wrong.

* IgnoreTheFanService: Among all the other annoying people Bobby encounters is a reasonably attractive local girl (she's played by Creator/ClaireDanes after all) who may or may not be underage (though she certainly acts like it) who keeps throwing herself at him, perhaps as a possible ticket out of town. Even though he keeps rebuffing her, her interest provokes the jealousy of her hotheaded boyfriend, who keeps getting in Bobby's face for it, and ends up causing him problems.

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