AT CLOSE RANGE (WIDESCREEN/FULL SCREEN)

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• Release Year: 1986
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
• Plot: 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
• Cast: Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Mary Stuart Masterson, Chris Penn, Millie Perkins, Eileen Ryan, Tracey Walter, R.D. Call, David Strathairn, J.C. Quinn, Candy Clark, Jake Dengel, Kiefer Sutherland, Stephen Geoffreys, Crispin Glover, Noelle Parker, Alan Autry, Paul Herman, Gary Gober, Marshall Fallwell Jr., Doug Anderson, Nancy Sherburne, Terry Baker, Michael Edwards, Myke R. Mueller, Bob McDivitt, Bonita Hall, Terri Coulter, Anna Levine, Janie Draper, Charles 'Tatoo' Jensen, E.R. Davies, James Foley, Elliott Lewitt, Nicholas Kazan
• Director: James Foley
• Runtime: 1:51
• Company: MGM/UA
• Media Format: Movie