Extremities
Reception

Extremities (1986)

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6.3
5 platform(s) · 7 ratings 5,186 votes
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Audience 0.0/10 1 votes Synced 2026-07-19
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External reviews

Pat Graham · Chicago Reader 30.00/100.00

There aren't any flesh-and-blood characters here, only superimposed attitudes: it's almost like reading a rape-crisis textbook, with every lesson italicized.

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Walter Goodman · The New York Times 40.00/100.00

THE smashing, crashing, thrashing battle between Farrah Fawcett and James Russo that takes up about half of Extremities leaves the contestants in a state of exhaustion -and the movie along with them.

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Dave Kehr · Chicago Tribune 25.00/100.00

Fawcett isn`t half bad--she works hard and doesn`t commit any egregious technical faults--but she doesn`t have the resources to give her slimly written character a sufficiently commanding inner life, and it`s difficult to get beyond her sunny, fashion-model good looks. It`s another sad case of the clown who wanted to play Hamlet.

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Sheila Benson · Los Angeles Times 40.00/100.00

Anger? Outrage? Are these new feelings for audiences dealing with the fact of rape--aborted or not? You might hope not, but if they are, the film generates them, as well as the shamefully satisfying taste of bone-cracking revenge. But they still don’t add up to reason enough to make a movie, or to make it in 1986.

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Staff (Not Credited) · TV Guide Magazine 60.00/100.00

Originally an off-Broadway play, EXTREMITIES projects the powerful rancor of the play, but the film also retains some deadening theatricality that doesn't work on screen.

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Paul Attanasio · Washington Post 30.00/100.00

Extremities pretends to be a serious movie, and in a film culture where women are routinely exploited and revenge is taken blithely, it is, at least, a departure. But we don't learn anything about men and women, or revenge, from "Extremities" -- we just watch people score debating points, to the tune of J.A.C. Redford's stale TV-movie score.

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