Crossing Guard - It happened on the open road
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| German title | Crossing Guard - It happened on the open road |
| Original title | The Crossing Guard |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1995 |
| length | 111 minutes |
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| Director | Sean Penn |
| script | Sean Penn |
| production | Sean Penn David S. Hamburger |
| music | Jack Nitzsche |
| camera | Vilmos Zsigmond |
| cut | Jay Cassidy |
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Crossing Guard - It happened on the open road (Original title: The Crossing Guard ) is an American independent film directed by Sean Penn from 1995.
action
Five years after John Booth runs over Freddy and Mary Gale's daughter while drunk, he is released from prison. Since the death of their daughter Emily, the marriage of Freddy and Mary has been broken, and the relationship between Freddy and the sons of the family has been disturbed. Freddy has been planning revenge on Booth for years . While Booth unsuspectingly returns to his parents, Freddy lets his wife know about his plan, but she has no understanding of his plans for revenge.
Freddy breaks into Booth's apartment at night, armed with a pistol . His attempted murder fails because Freddy forgot to load the magazine . Booth lets Freddy understand that he won't call the police because he can't live with his guilt anyway. He agreed with Freddy a period of three days to enjoy life in freedom again, then he would let him kill him. The next day, Booth meets artist Jojo at a party . They have a brief affair in which he tells her about the fateful traffic accident. He says he spoke to the dying Emily immediately after the accident, and she apologized for not paying attention to the traffic before crossing the street. Freddy uses the three days to visit prostitutes and excessive alcohol consumption.
On the third day, Freddy drives to Booth drunk. Before he arrives, however, he is stopped by the police. When he is about to be arrested for drunk driving , he flees with his gun. He breaks into a house where he is hiding in a girl's nursery. He later comes to Booth's apartment, but Booth awaits him with a rifle at the ready. Both face each other briefly with guns drawn, but then Booth flees. Freddy pursues him, and does not notice until the end that Booth leads him to the cemetery to the grave of Emily, which Freddy had never visited out of fear. Freddy collapses at his daughter's grave. In the end, the men make up.
criticism
Roger Ebert gave the film two and a half stars and commented: “ What is good about this film is very good, but there are too many side trips, in both the plot and the emotions, for the film to draw us in fully. ”(German:“ The film is very good in parts; however, it gets lost in too many secondary scenes - both in the narrative process and in the emotions portrayed - for it to be able to fully capture the audience ”)
Awards
Golden Globe Award 1996
- Nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category for Anjelica Huston
Screen Actors Guild Awards 1996
- Nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category for Anjelica Huston
Independent Spirit Awards 1996
- Nominated for Best Supporting Actor for David Morse
Venice International Film Festival 1995
- Nomination for the Golden Lion
Web links
- Crossing Guard - It happened in broad daylight in the Internet Movie Database (English)