Synopsis
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.

At.Close.Range.1986.576p.BluRay.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 55 min
Size: 	3.01 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x438 
Aspect ratio:  	2.35:1
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	3 205 kb/s
BPP: 	0.298
Audio
#1:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 448 kb/s
#2:  	English 2.0ch Vorbis @ 80.0 kb/s (Commentary with Director James Foley and Film Historian Nick Redman)

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

The post James Foley – At Close Range (1986) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

ElmoOxygen writes:
James Foley’s (At Close Range, Glengarry Glen Ross) first film, as well as Aidan Quinn’s, this flashy, empty, very 80’s movie features Quinn and Daryl Hannah in a midwestern, steel-mill version of Romeo and Juliet. Shot by Fassbinder, Scorsese and Redford’s DP, Michael Ballhaus, and written by Chris Columbus (Gremlins, The Goonies, director of Home Alone 1 and 2, the first two Harry Potter films, and the classic, Bicentennial Man), it is filled to the brim with hideous, yet hilarious dialogue, mostly via setting up “tough guy” Aidan Quinn and his motorcycle antics, who, no matter how old he was at the time, always looks 35, betraying the notion that he’s a high school student. Hannah looks amazing throughout (and nude), with this and Splash, one wonders if she ate at all in 1984. Features a very silly/spazzy/awesome prom dance sequence cut to “I might like you better if we slept together,” no surprise the guy who edited it ended up directing Purple Rain. This movie is the very personification of 80’s MTV. Be happy that you can experience it, because your life would be meaningless without it

1.57GB | 1 h 33 min | 853×480 | mkv

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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The intriguing relationship between three desperados, who try to kidnap a wealthy child in hope of turning their lives around.

Letterboxd reviews
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★★★★ Rewatched by Waldo 10 Feb 2021

A kinda forgotten film noir, from a Jim Thompson novel. James Foley’s adaptation is a straightforward, desperate thriller about an equally desperate kidnapping. No one is at their best at the present stage of their lives here. Fay, played with elegance and sex appeal by Rachel Ward, is a borderline alcoholic widow who lives alone in a big but decrepit house. Kid Collins is a drifter ex boxer, played real well by Jason Patric, is lured into a criminal scheme that catches him off guard. Finally, there’s Uncle Bud, a slimy ex cop played by the legendary Bruce Dern. This trio kidnaps a kid from a rich family. Razor sharp and brimming with rage, sex and murder. I tell ya! It’s still pretty great.

2.85GB | 1h 51m | 1024×440 | mkv

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English,French

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