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At Close Range (1986)
Front Cover Actor
Sean Penn
Christopher Walken
Movie Details
Language English
Audience Rating R (Restricted)
Running Time 115 mins
Country USA
Color Color
Plot
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
Personal Details
Seen It Yes
Index 837
Collection Status In Collection
Links Amazon US
Product Details
Format DVD
Region Region 1
Screen Ratio 2.35:1
027616855510
Release Date 12/19/2000
Subtitles French; Spanish
Audio Tracks English Dolby Digital 2.0
French Dolby Digital 2.0
Nr of Disks/Tapes 1