At a Close Distance (1986)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | At a short distance |
| Original title | At close range |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1986 |
| length | 113 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | James Foley |
| script | Nicholas Kazan |
| production |
Don Guest Elliott Lewitt |
| music | Patrick Leonard |
| camera | Juan Ruiz Anchía |
| cut | Howard E. Smith |
| occupation | |
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At Close Range (At Close Range) one is American thriller from the year 1986 . Directed by James Foley and written by Nicholas Kazan .
action
Brad Whitewood Jr. grew up with his divorced mother in a small town in the provinces. His father, Brad Whitewood Sr., runs a criminal organization that employs numerous family members. Whitewood Jr. one day gets into a fight with his mother's lover. After that he first worked for his father, then he founded his own organization together with his brother Tommy. After his father drowns a police spy in his presence, he tells his father that he is going to leave.
Whitewood Sr. fears his son Brad could hand him over to the police. He raped Terry, Whitewood Junior's girlfriend, which Brad Whitewood Junior should warn. Whitewood Junior reveals his father's activities in response to the rape.
Whitewood senior then kills all members of the gang and his youngest son, Tommy, as they could testify as witnesses in a court case. After Brad juniors and Terry's decision to flee to Montana, Whitewood Sr. had both of them carried out an assassination attempt, which Brad junior survived seriously injured. He drags himself to Whitewood Senior's house and only meets him. He explains his bleeding to his father by getting stuck on a pasture fence and goes to the bathroom, where he can take a gun from a hiding place. After returning to the kitchen, he threatens his father and keeps him in check until the police arrive.
The final scene takes place before and in the courthouse of Brad Juniors hometown. There he is supposed to testify against his father. When the district attorney asked for his name, Brad Whitewood junior, he was asked to indicate whether he also knew a Brad Whitewood senior. He tearfully answers this question with: "He is my father".
Reviews
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on April 18, 1986 that the film tells a " sparse, violent, unforgettable " story of a young man in search of his father, who, however, does not love him and is ready to kill his son . The film, based on true events from 1978, reminds Ebert of the ancient tragedies. The " great actors " Sean Penn and Christopher Walken are in top form.
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was “a rousing staged thriller with a socio-psychological background, intensive milieu drawing and convincing actors ”. However, “ the father-son conflict ” is “ only imperfectly illuminated ” and “ often takes a back seat to the action effects ”.
Awards
James Foley was nominated for the Golden Bear in 1986. Madonna won in 1987 for singing the song Live to Tell the Film and Television Music Award of the American Society of Composers while Patrick Leonard for the same song in 1987, the BMI Film & TV Award received. The film was nominated for the Artios Prize of the Casting Society of America in 1987 .
The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
backgrounds
The film was in Franklin ( Tennessee ) and Spring Hill turned (Tennessee). Its production amounted to an estimated 6.5 million US dollars . The world premiere took place in February 1986 at the Berlin International Film Festival . On April 18, 1986, the film was released in US cinemas, grossing approximately $ 2.35 million. The title song Live to tell by Madonna runs through the entire film in numerous variations.
Web links
- At a short distance in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- At close range at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Film review by Roger Ebert, accessed November 15, 2007
- ^ At a short distance from the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on November 15, 2007
- ^ Filming locations for At Close Range, accessed November 15, 2007
- ↑ Box office / business for At Close Range, accessed November 15, 2007
- ^ At Close Range premiere dates, accessed November 15, 2007