At Close Range
“Like father. Like son. Like hell.”
CrimeDramaThriller
Brad Whitewood Jr. lives in rural Pennsylvania and has few prospects. Against his mother's wishes, he seeks out his estranged father, the head of a gang of thieves in a nearby town. Though his new girlfriend supports his criminal ambitions, Brad Jr. soon learns that his father is a dangerous man. Inspired by the real events that led to the end of the Johnston Gang, who operated in the northeastern United States in the 1970s.
VIBE
This film feels like a suffocating, sun-baked summer in a dead-end town. It’s a grim, unflinching look at desperate people trapped by circumstance and their own destructive impulses. The air is thick with dread and the stench of desperation.
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