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Bookmark this pageCarried Away (1995)
Director: Bruno Barreto
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From Time Out Film Guide
A backwoods Texas schoolteacher (Hopper), nearing retirement, is transformed by a relationship with a new 17-year-old pupil (Locane): dodgy territory, given that this is based on a novella by Jim Harrison, author of such 'manly' pseudo-Lawrentian works as Wolf and Legends of the Fall. Hopper's Joseph Svenden is a likeable, honourable man, consumed by phlegmatic inertia: he describes himself as 'a mediocre teacher', with reluctant plans to return to farming if his small school closes; still lives in the old farm with his dying Ma (Harris); and walks crouched over a stick since a tractor accident. He reacts at first with an almost distant attitude to the forceful, knowing advances of the girl. The movie gets interesting not with his hay-barn sexual encounters, nor when he gazes at her naked form as she does a brazen (and ridiculous) Lady Godiva act, but in later scenes, such as when Joseph talks quietly in a bar with his doctor friend (Holbrook) of his lack of concern at the community's disapproval. Busey is good and authoritative as the girl's menacing father. Hackneyed but dignified.Author: WH
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Posted on May 14 2008 15:20
I love Dennis Hopper ! It's a great film!
Dennis Hopper is a great artist, and great actor! - Report as inappropriate
Cast & crew
Director: Bruno Barreto
Producer: Lisa M Hansen, Paul Hertzberg
Cast: Dennis Hopper, Amy Locane, Amy Irving, Julie Harris, Gary Busey, Hal Holbrook full cast
Duration: 109 mins
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