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Keys to Tulsa

1997

Crime / Drama / Thriller

6
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 10% · 10 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 37% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.2/10 10 1908 1.9K

blackmail

Plot summary

Richter Boudreau is on a bad streak: Languishing in the shadow of his celebrity mother, he loses his job as a film critic for the town paper, and now he's been approached with a dangerous proposition that ultimately leads to blackmail. Richter's friend Ronnie ropes him into a scheme to steal the inheritance of his wife, Vicky.

Director

Leslie Greif Photo
Leslie Greif

Top cast

Cameron Diaz Photo
Cameron Diaz as Trudy
James Spader Photo
James Spader as Ronnie Stover
Michael Rooker Photo
Michael Rooker as Keith Michaels
James Coburn Photo
James Coburn as Harmon Shaw
720p.WEB
1.03 GB
1280*704
English 2.0
NR
30 fps
1 hr 53 min
Seeds 11

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by chaosHD 6 / 10

Could of been great..

Had this been produced by a major studio with an experienced director at the helm, this movie would of been so much better. Keys to Tulsa contains both the look and music of countless straight to video/cable movies from the same period. Which is a shame because the cast is great and was clearly game for anything. Fans of David Cronenberg's Crash will find it amusing to see James Spader and Deborah Kara Unger reuniting, playing a trailer trash couple instead of a yuppie couple. But just like in Crash, their characters aren't exactly faithful to each other. However it's the beautiful Joanna Going who steals the show, looking like a skinnier and smaller breasted Alyssa Milano as the stripper named Cherry who is constantly under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol at all the wrong times. It's surprising to know that she was around 34 when she made this movie, as she looks more like 24. Adding more insult to her great performance, despite her large role her name nor picture is nowhere to be found on the region 1 DVD case from Artisan. Meanwhile, Cameron Diaz who only has a cameo that lasts a few minutes at the beginning of the film has second billing.
Reviewed by gridoon 5 / 10

Stagnant, overlong crime drama.

"Keys To Tulsa" is not completely uninteresting - that would be impossible with the cast it has (including a made-up-to-look-like-Elvis James Spader and a HOT Deborah Unger). But the story never seems to build and the movie drags from one purposeless dialogue scene to another; it goes on so long that it begins to resemble a soap opera. Certainly the only two tense scenes are not enough for the "thriller" this was misleadingly promoted as. (**)
Reviewed by Tito-8 4 / 10

Took too long to get going

About twenty minutes into this movie, I was already bored. Quite simply, these characters were fairly dull. Occasionally, something enjoyable would happen, but then things would slow down again. Fortunately, my patience was eventually rewarded, and the ending to this movie wasn't bad at all. However, it was by no means good enough to justify sitting through the first ninety minutes. So, I would say that the movie was mediocre overall, and considering all of the talent in the cast, I'd call this a disappointment.
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