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General Minor 
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TITLE |
At
Close Range (1986) |
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DISABILITY |
General
Epilectic |
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NOTES |
Quite
wonderful film about a teenage boy (Sean Penn) a bit of a daredevil
who meets his father for the first time and discovers
his father is leader of a gang of thieves. Of course the
impressionable kid wants to follow in his father's footsteps.
And we see a side of criminal activity in detail that's not
too common. The gang's speciality is stealing farm equipment. |
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At first
there is no violence except implied but when the gang |
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is
threatened with betrayal the father cold bloodedly kills the
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weak but
devious snitch. At this point the son sees the evil in |
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The strength
of this film is in the superb performances of |
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Sean Penn
and Christopher Walken with a strong supporting |
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cast
including Christopher Penn. |
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When David
Straithairn who plays one of the gang is |
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introduced
to the son there's a throwaway remark that's he |
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epileptic.
But so far as I saw this never impinged during the |
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