My New Gun

My New Gun
Directed by Stacy Cochran
Produced by

Becky Arntzen (associate producer)
Paul Colichman (executive producer)
Miles A. Copeland III (executive producer)
Lydia Dean Pilcher (co-producer)
Michael Flynn (producer)

Harold Welb (executive producer)
Written by Stacy Cochran
Music by Pat Irwin
Cinematography Edward Lachman
Edited by Camilla Toniolo
Distributed by IRS Media
Release dates
26 October 1992
Running time
99 minutes
Country United States
Language English

My New Gun is a 1992 American satirical comedy film directed by Stacy Cochran. It stars Diane Lane, James Le Gros, Stephen Collins, and Tess Harper, with an early minor role for Philip Seymour Hoffman.[1] The film is about a husband who buys his respectable New Jersey housewife an unwanted revolver which she later comes to enjoy. My New Gun is the first of Cochran's feature films, directed shortly after she graduated from Columbia Film School.[2]

Cast

Production

My New Gun was shot on a budget of $2.1 million, financed from IRS and Columbia-TriStar HomeVideo.[3] It was shot on location in Teaneck, New Jersey, and a townhouse was utilized for the interior of multiple homes.[3]

Release and reception

The film was a commercial failure that met with mixed reviews. One critic panned it and said, "after seeing this film I need a new gun so I can shoot myself." But the film was praised by another critic for its "masterfully understated structure" and eccentricities, which some considered to be influenced by Thelma and Louise or an update of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House.[2] Terrence Rafferty of The New Yorker praised the film for its cinematography and stated that "Cochran’s screenplay delights in fouling up the audience’s expectations".[4] Emanuel Levy has noted the way in which "the gifted director Stacy Cochran examines suburbia in a manner devoid of the usually nasty, mean-spirited approach to the subject", and unlike other downtown New York films, it "displays no irony or condescension; yet its quirkily laconic, minimalist perspective goes against expectations."[3]

References

  1. Oliver, David (2 February 2014). "Timeline: The life of Philip Seymour Hoffman". USA Today. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
  2. 1 2 Allon, Yoram; Cullen, Del; Patterson, Hannah (2002). Contemporary North American Film Directors: A Wallflower Critical Guide. Wallflower Press. p. 89. ISBN 978-1-903364-52-9.
  3. 1 2 3 Levy, Emanuel (2001). Cinema of Outsiders: The Rise of American Independent Film. NYU Press. p. 393. ISBN 978-0-8147-5124-4.
  4. Rafferty, Terence. "My New Gun". The New Yorker. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
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