At Close Range

1986 · 116 min · EN · R · 6.8 (322 votes)

Dir. James Foley · Starring Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Mary Stuart Masterson, Chris Penn, Millie Perkins, Eileen Ryan · Music Patrick Leonard

“Like father. Like son. Like hell.”

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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.

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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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