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Article: Can Pistols Get Smarter? A young couple watch Oliver Stone's 'Natural Born Killers,' then launch a shooting spree. Now a lawsuit asks: did the film incite violence?(Nation)
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- August 2, 1999
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Here's a movie Hollywood doesn't want you to see: the daughter of a judge from a politically prominent family runs off with her ne'er-do-well boyfriend. They drop LSD and watch, over and over, the ultraviolent Oliver Stone movie "Natural Born Killers," about a young couple who take drugs and kill people for pleasure. One afternoon, out joyriding in rural Mississippi, the boy suggests "finding an isolated farmhouse and doing a home invasion, robbing a family and killing them, leaving no witnesses," says the girl, who later tells police that "it was as if he was fantasizing from the movie 'Natural Born Killers'." At a cotton gin on a lonely highway, the boyfriend guns down ...
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