''No Place to Hide'' is a 1993 American

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written and directed by Richard Danus and starring

Kris Kristofferson Kristoffer Kristofferson (born June 22, 1936) is a retired American singer, songwriter and actor. Among his songwriting credits are "Me and Bobby McGee", " For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Nig ...

.VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever 1996 - Page 1967 No Place to Hide A girl's father drowns and she blames herself. Her mother and psychologist try to convince the girl that her ... Kristofferson plays the hard-edged cop who's out to protect her and trap the killer. 1993 (R) 90m'C Drew Barrymore."

Cast

as Joe Garvey *

Drew Barrymore Drew Blythe Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an American actress, director, producer, talk show host and author. A member of the Barrymore family of actors, she is the recipient of several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a ...

as Tinsel Hanley/Narrator *

Martin Landau Martin James Landau (; June 20, 1928 – July 15, 2017) was an American actor, acting coach, producer, and editorial cartoonist. His career began in the 1950s, with early film appearances including a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's ''North ...

as Frank McCoy *

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as Joline * O. J. Simpson as Allie Wheeler *

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as Karen * Bruce Weitz as Captain Nelson Silva * Seth Marten as Harold Rosen *

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as Pamela Hanley *

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as Weller *

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as Mother Superior

Reception

The film was widely panned by critics, particularly Richard Harrington of the ''

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'': "''No Place to Hide'' is so bad it's not even any good. No guilty pleasures are to be found in its preposterously clumsy plot, or in the limp performance of Kris Kristofferson; someone check his pulse. Even Drew Barrymore regresses from the promise of ''

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'' by being forced to play a petulant 14-year-old caught up in a web of murder and intrigue. For both actors, this film is a triumph of underachievement...The laconic Kristofferson's acting range is measured between squinting eyes and a grinding jaw...The gradually-developing bond between Kris and Drew is excruciatingly detailed in the latter's voiced-over diary entries. It's all very embarrassing...Director Richard Danus, who beats his own script to a pulp, has no idea where to take any of this; loose plot threads abound. The inevitable revelation of a secret society run by ''

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''-type elitists is simply ridiculous; if ever a film needed a Satanic subplot, it's this one. In any number of confrontations with Drew's would-be-killer (who looks and acts suspiciously like

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), Kristofferson tells Barrymore to 'Run, run...! Get out of here!' Take those as subliminal messages." To this day, Kristofferson and Landau are, apparently, not fans of the film themselves. Once, when asked about the picture by a fan, Landau's retort was "Why would you want to know about ''that'' one?" For his part, Kristofferson often pretends not to even remember making the film.

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