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United States

1987

110 Min

Color

1.85:1

English

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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CAST Brian Dennehy, James Woods, Victoria Tennant, Paul Shenar, George Coe, Anne Pitoniak, Sully Boyar, Kathleen Lloyd, Allison Balson, Mary Carver, Harold Tyner

Dennis Meechum (Brian Dennehy) is a cop who can write — lurid crime novels, that is. But when his own wife succumbs to cancer, Meechum suffers a chronic case of writer’s block. Enter former hit man — and fame-seeker — Cleve (James Woods), whose former employer kidnapped Meechum’s daughter. Together, the two men embark on a cross-country trek tracing Cleve’s murder spree. It’ll make good fodder for a book … if Meechum lives to write it.

Director

John Flynn

John Flynn (March 14, 1932 – April 4, 2007) was an American film director and screenwriter known for making efficient, no-nonsense crime-thrillers The Outfit and Rolling Thunder.

Flynn was raised in Hermosa Beach, California and served in the Coast Guard, It was during this stint that he studied journalism with Roots author Alex Haley. Flynn received a degree in journalism from UCLA.

He began his cinematic career as an apprentice to director Robert Wise on Odds Against Tomorrow and worked as the script supervisor on West Side Story. From there, Flynn worked as a second unit director on Kid Galahad and The Great Escape. He made his debut as a director with The Sergeant starring Rod Steiger.

Flynn’s substantial commercial success was with The Outfit starring Robert Duvall. The filmmaker achieved a dedicated cult following with the gritty revenge thriller, Rolling Thunder starring William Devane and Tommy Lee Jones.

In 1994, he directed the cult classic Brainscan… read more

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João MC Palhares

8Aug12

What amazed me the most, this time around, was the way the emotions shift, especially in Woods's character. Sound - silence, love - hate, murder - sacrifice. There's always a bridge to opposites. To protagonists and antagonists. And to every action there's a consequence, when that is felt at every shot, when a gaze has a meaning without the need of words to explain it, we're witnessing something truly special.

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