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Melanie Griffith and James Woods play a drug-addled couple who adopt a pair of young thugs-in-training while on a road-trip-cum-crime-spree in a sort of '90s version of Bonnie and Clyde . Critics like this better than director Larry Clark's first film, the teen shocker Kids , and Woods' performance is called "scene stealing" (Richard Corliss, Time ). Overall, though, reviews are so-so.