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At Close Range (DVD)

Description: Genre: Drama / Theatrical Release: 1986 / Director: James Foley / Actors: Sean Penn, Christopher Walken ... / DVD ... more

At Close Range (DVD) ... released 21 July, 2003 at MGM Entertainment / Features of the DVD: PAL / One of the overlooked films of the 1980s, perhaps because it is such a downbeat tale of an amoral family. Sean Penn plays a kid whose small-time criminal impulses are stoked to a new level when he falls in with his father (Christopher Walken), a vicious career criminal for whom no problem is so large that it can't be solved by a murder. At first exhilarated by the attention from his father (and the jobs he gives him to do), he gradually catches on to just what a bad guy Dad really is. But when he tries to extricate himself, he discovers that Dad now has him squarely in his sights. Penn is terrific in a role of emotional complexity, while Walken, king of the creeps, is positively frightening as this soft-spoken but highly lethal patriarch. --Marshall Fine

Newest Review: ... best roles. The trouble is that Walken is the head of criminal family who specialise in stealing tractors and the like and ... more

... Penn is soon drawn into his father's murky world. What Penn does not realise is that his father coulndn't care less about him and would even go as far as killing him to save his own skin. After Penn and his gang of friends botch a job they are all killed in cold blood by Walken and his gang who fear they will talk to the police and expose the work they do. Penn survives the attack and this sets up a truly great penultimate scene between himself and Walken. Penn is broken with emotion and is heartbreakin...more

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At Close Range (DVD): almost a classic (274 words)
by bono10 - written on 22.10.02 (Useful, 13 readings)
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This crime film from 1985 boasts many good things about it but it doesn't quite reach the hights to which it aspires. Sean Penn is the boy who having left school is thrown out of his home by his stepfather, he then becomes acquainted with his long lost father played to great effect by Christopher Walken in one of his best roles. The trouble is that Walken is the head of criminal family who specialise in stealing tractors and the like and Penn is soon drawn into his father's murky world. What Penn does not realise is that his father coulndn't care less about him and would even go as far as killing him to save his own skin. After Penn and his gang ...

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