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At Close Range (1986)
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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...
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At Close Range Movie Review by Zara  (1/30/2007) |
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Years after watching this movie, it still sticks in my head. A disturbing story of a father and son relationship and how the father is mixed up in illegal activity. One of the most chilling performances by Walken I've ever seen, he is unrelentant in getting his way regardless of what he needs to do to get it, including...
(complete At Close Range review by Zara)
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