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Credit Fraud

Fake credits in 'Natural Born Killers'

The 118 frantic minutes of Natural Born Killers contain so much activity that you can't blame viewers for thinking there must be deeper meaning within the movie's sledgehammered messages.

But closer examination reveals that below the movie's surface there may be, well, more surface. Eighteen minutes into NBK, the closing credits of a grotesque sitcom parody (which preaches that Middle America Is Sinister and Spiritually Barren) race by illegibly fast. Hit your remote's slo-mo or pause button, however, and you can read such entries as assistant to the director ''Helen Thesack,'' set doctor ''Dr. Boyd I. Feelgood,'' special-effects technicians ''Flash Burns'' and ''Noah Eyebrows,'' and casting by ''The Couch.'' That Oliver Stone -- what a cutup.

Originally posted Mar 10, 1995 Published in issue #265 Mar 10, 1995 Order article reprints

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