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Alan Autry | Ernie | |
R.D. Call | Dickie | |
Candy Clark | Mary Sue | |
Jake Dengel | Lester | |
Stephen Geoffreys | Aggie | |
Crispin Glover | Lucas | |
Gary Gober | D.A | |
Paul Herman | ||
Mary Stuart Masterson | Terry | |
Noelle Parker | ||
Sean Penn | Brad Whitewood Jr. | |
Christopher Walken | Brad Whitewood Sr. | |
Tracey Walter | Uncle Patch Whitewood | |
Christopher Penn | ||
Chris Penn | Tommy Whitewood | |
Millie Perkins | Julie | |
Eileen Ryan | Grandma | |
David Strathairn | Tony Pine | |
J.C. Quinn | Boyd | |
Doug Anderson | Marshall | |
Terry Baker | Customer | |
Terri Coulter | Barroom Dancer | |
E.R. Davies | Detective Mosker | |
Janie Draper | Stripper | |
Marshall Fallwell Jr. | Bartender | |
James Foley | Assistant D.A | |
Bonita Hall | Buxom Woman |
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Producer | Don Guest
Elliott Lewitt John Daly Derek Gibson |
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Writer | Nicholas Kazan
Elliott Lewitt |
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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. --Marshall Fine |
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