2 Days in the Valley

1996 "You have one minute to decide the rest of your life."

2 Days in the Valley

6.5 | 1h44m | R | en | Comedy

In a sleepy bedroom community of LA's San Fernando Valley, the murder of a professional athlete by two hit men sets into motion a chain of events that puts the mundane lives of a dozen residents on a collision course. This clever tale tells the story of two hit men, a mistress, a nurse, a vindictive ex-wife, a wealthy art dealer and his lovelorn assistant, a suicidal writer and his dog, and a bitter cop and his partner.

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Released: September. 26,1996 | Released Producted By: Rysher Entertainment , Redemption Productions Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Genre

Comedy , Thriller , Crime

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Cast

Danny Aiello , Jeff Daniels , Teri Hatcher , Charlize Theron , James Spader , Eric Stoltz

Director

Kevin Constant

Producted By

Rysher Entertainment

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Danny Aiello

as Dosmo Pizzo

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Jeff Daniels

as Alvin Strayer

Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words A Man in Full Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story The American Buffalo The Saint of Second Chances Bye Bye Barry Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age American Rust Hemingway 9/11: Inside the President's War Room

Teri Hatcher

as Becky Foxx

Nightfall Planes: Back to School The Killer Inside: The Ruth Finley Story Christmas at the Chalet How to Fall in Love by Christmas Mid-Love Crisis A Kiss Before Christmas Even More Funny Women of a Certain Age Madness in the Method La Folie Disneyland Paris : L'Anniversaire des 25 ans du Parc

Charlize Theron

as Helga Svelgen

APEX The Odyssey The Studio: The Promotion It’s a Mad Max World The Old Guard 2 96th Academy Awards High & Low – John Galliano Fast X Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness The School for Good and Evil

James Spader

as Lee Woods

Avengers: Age of Ultron The Homesman The Blacklist Lincoln Shorts Discovery Atlas Discovery Atlas: China Revealed Boston Legal Shadow of Fear The Pentagon Papers

Eric Stoltz

as Wes Taylor

Pulp Fiction: The Making Of Cinema Toast Lucky Day Her Smell Class Rank Back in Time Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant Fort McCoy 5 to 7 Hello

Kevin Constant

Art Direction

Catherine Hardwicke

Production Design

Gene Serdena

Set Decoration

Oliver Wood

Director of Photography

Betsy Heimann

Costume Design

Charlie Picerni

Stunt Coordinator

Danny Epper

Stunt Double

Denise Lynne Roberts

Stunt Double

Jimmy N. Roberts

Stunt Double

Silvio Wolf Busch

Stunts

Steve Picerni

Stunts

Chuck Picerni Jr.

Stunts

Maria R. Kelly

Stunts

John Herzfeld

Director

Dana J. Kuznetzkoff

Second Assistant Director

Charlie Picerni

Second Unit Director

Wayne Wahrman

Editor

Jim Miller

Editor

Mindy Marin

Associate Producer

Terry Miller

Associate Producer

2 Days in the Valley Audience Reviews

2hotFeature one of my absolute favorites!

HottWwjdIam There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Michelle Ridley The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

wales-09568 Who did the music with the bluesy and gravely sound? Fantastic. I would like to get his CD or name. It sounded a lot like Otis Redding but I wasn't certain. It must have been an older recording. I was impressed by the selection of background tunes used in this film. Great job as it really added to the entire work. Please respond. Thank you. Terry wales92627@yahoo

sir_brettley It's a nice drama film but threads are picked up and dropped without adding to the plot. This is distracting and makes you wonder what was chopped out during editing to "tighten up" the movie. It's not that long, though (104 minutes) and scenes have been obviously reshot, so I think they simply ran out of money.For example, the "tough cop" played by Daniels receives a lot of screen time at first but then simply gets a letter stating that he has been dropped from active duty and oh, by the way, could he please turn in his gun and badge? Not only are those things done in person, we never see Daniels again. His character really isn't needed for the plot if he can be dropped without affecting it! Then there is the assassin, who gleefully shoots everyone at the drop of a hat but decides to knock out Stoltz's character instead. If Stoltz is needed alive later in the movie then why not have him escape, or shot but just wounded? You know the plot requires him later when Spader's character just bops him on the head.There are other problems as well, but I'm sure you'll notice them if you decide to watch. You just have to leave it up to sloppy writing/editing or really, really suspend your disbelief. :/

smatysia Since this film came out only two years later, it is hard to imagine that the phrase "pulp fiction" did not come up at the pitch meeting. But I thought that this movie was pretty good and can stand on its own despite the similarities, mainly the weaving together of disparate characters by events. It does run chronologically, unlike PF. It has an amazing cast, with two Oscars, and another five nominations among them. (Although some of these did come afterwards) Kudos for great performances by Danny Aiello, Eric Stoltz, Glenne Headly, Marsha Mason, Terry Hatcher, Charlize Theron, and in a smaller role, Ada Maris. Nice unobtrusive direction by John Herzfeld, who also has a writing credit. Worth checking out.

Prismark10 2 days in the Valley tries to go for the Quentin Tarantino dollar with a crime story with interlinked characters that starts off with a murder in the LA valley.James Spader is the smart and ruthless assassin. It is hard to think that he is the old, balding man from The Blacklist. His accomplice is Charlize Theron in an early role looking blond and hot and she has a memorable tiff with Teri Hatcher who is a one time Olympian whose ex has been murdered.Jeff Daniels plays a racist detective who is trying to get Eric Stoltz to bust Chinese massage parlours. Danny Aiello plays a fall guy, Paul Mazursky is an over the hill filmmaker fallen on hard times.The film needed a more darkly comic edge but it works sufficiently well enough as a thriller with some twists, despicable villains and a few people with heart even if they are on the wrong side of the law.