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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 10038
Released: December 19, 2000 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A teenage farm boy looking for excitement finds himself on a collision course with his smooth-talking gang leader father in this "powerfully disturbing (Newsweek) tale based on the story of real-life killer Bruce Johnston. OscarÂ(r) winner* Sean Penn (Dead Man Walking) and OscarÂ(r) winner** Christopher Walken (Pulp Fiction) star in this "hot, horrifying saga of an American criminal family" (Los Angeles Times)! Juvenile delinquent Brad Whitewood, Jr. (Penn) knows about petty theft, but he wants big moneyenough to blow the lid off his boring life, enough to get out of town and to find his ol' man (Walken). He wants to be like his dad, a big-time thief, who knows "the business." Seductive and sinister, Brad's father is full of toxic wisdom that makes his illicit life appear eerily sexy. But when Brad witnesses his father deliberately killing someone, he realizes he may not only be in over his head he may also lose it for good. *2003: Actor, Mystic River **1978: Supporting Actor, The Deer Hunter
Description of At Close Range:
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
At Close Range Reviews:
Excellent 
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Maureen Rokicka
This is a GREAT movie nd this happen in my town!
2009-09-14 - This happen in my town. I was only 12 when it happen but I remember this like it was yesterday. I did not know Robin but she did attend my school and a couple of my cousins and friends had class with her and knew her very well.I did attend school with a many of the Johnston kin after the murders.I remember the morning our town heard the news about the murders (and i will never forget the picture on the the front page of the news)Oxford always had a annual carnival in August and that was the BIG thing where everyone enjoyed the fries and vinger.The worst part is I remember that night my parents took me to that very same carnival the same night the teens were lored off the grounds only to meet their death.When I first watched the movie it grave me a kinda eerie feeling.I understand they did not film this in Oxford or Nottingham or Chester County but they did a great job portraying the area. Watch this you will like it.Great Movie
Very good movie 
2009-06-15 - A good but sad movie of a true story most people don't know about. Vintage Sean Penn and Christoper Walken.
Really good 
2009-04-26 - I had never seen this movie before Jay Mohr talked of a scene on the Opie and Anthony Show. I love "based on a true story" crime movies. This family was messed up! Oh yeah, a lot of big names in this.
