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This week on Catching Up On Cinema, Kyle and Trevor review
Wolfgang Petersen's, Enemy Mine (1985)!
An over-budgeted box office flop with a checkered production
history, Enemy Mine (1985) is a charming, if uneven, sci-fi fable.
On the subject of “checkered production history,” the story
goes that director Wolfgang Petersen was courted to take the helm of
Enemy Mine over 5 weeks into the films' production, after original
director Richard Loncraine apparently failed to meet the producer's
expectations.
After director Petersen paused and rewound production to begin
anew and remake the film from whole cloth, the production budget of
Enemy Mine would essentially double.
To make matter worse, the film failed to generate interest at the
box office, and Enemy Mine would go on to be regarded as a financial
failure.
Despite failing to find an audience during its theatrical run,
Enemy Mine has since gone on to become somewhat of a cult classic,
largely on the strength of its handsome production design, and
winning performances from both Louis Gossett Jr. and Dennis Quaid.
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