Film
Movie theaters, reviews and showtimes in New York, plus articles, trailers and more
- Home
- Box Office
- Listings
- Trailers
- Features
Bookmark this page- Edition:
At Close Range (1985)
Director: James Foley
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
After young Penn is thrown out by his stepfather, he encounters his real father (Walken), who impresses the lad with his life as a successful outlaw in the Pennsylvania backwoods. He trains up the boy in stealing anything that moves, and life seems very jolly and fulfilled in a hillbilly sort of way. Then Walken is slowly revealed to the boy's eyes as a murderer and rapist; and when the boy and his friends decide to blow the whistle, the guns are turned inwards on the family. Foley has opted for a mixture of documentary 'realism' and set pieces which have clearly escaped from over-lit pop promos. Mingle this with Penn and Walken going heavily over the top in usual Method fashion, and the brew is less than intoxicating. CPea.Author: CPea
Cast & crew
Director: James Foley
Producer: Elliot Lewitt, Don Guest
Cast: Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Mary Stuart Masterson, Millie Perkins, Eileen Ryan, Chris Penn full cast
Duration: 115 mins
Most popular on this site
Features
Street fighting men
BAM celebrates John Carpenter’s sci-fi-inflected rage against the machine.
Zoom in:
<em>They Live'</em>s Roddy Piper
The American experience
British comedian Steve Coogan gets in touch with his inner Yank in <em>Hamlet 2.</em>
Spanish intuition
Scarlett Johansson and Rebecca Hall flirt away an Iberian summer in <em>Vicky Cristina Barcelona.</em>
Shadows and frogs
Crime pays in Film Forum’s expansive French noir series.
Strip tease
IFC’s new midnight-movie series revisits Hollywood’s groovy ’60s scene.
To air is human
<em>Man on Wire,</em> a new doc about a surreal Manhattan morning, aims high.
What do you think?
Post your review now