Tagged: convict

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2010s / Drama / Thriller

Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (2013)

David Lowery writes and directs this Badlands-esque, lyrically melancholy, Western-tinged, Texas-based drama about outlaw Bob Muldoon (Affleck), a convicted felon who makes his way out of prison to try to reconnect with Ruth Guthrie (Mara),...

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1970s / Action / Thriller

The Getaway (1972)

This is the third time I’ve seen The Getaway (as of this writing) and with each instance, I have grown to like it more.  It’s one of those films that seems edgier and fresher as time...

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2000s / Drama

Capote (2005)

It’s not quite a biography about famous writer Truman Capote so much as a biographical account of the making of his most famous work, In Cold Blood, during the 1960s.  It would be a landmark...

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1990s / Drama / Thriller

A Perfect World (1993)

I dig Clint Eastwood, and I normally like Kevin Costner, so this pairing of the two would seem like a can’t-miss proposition.  It misses. It’s a shame because there are many things going for A...

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2000s / Mystery / Thriller

Identity (2003)

Part Agatha Christie, part Alfred Hitchcock, Identity is a modern updating of old-school mystery/suspense for today’s slasher-flick appreciative audiences. Shades of Psycho mixed with “Ten Little Indians“ get churned in the idea blender. Toss in a few new twists, and...

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2000s / Comedy

Bringing Down the House (2003)

Bringing Down the House isn’t so much a romantic comedy as it is a buddy movie, with all of the formulaic comic devices that the term has come to be defined as over the...

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1990s / Drama

He Got Game (1998)

A man (Washington) is released for a week from a penitentiary in order to try to coax his estranged basketball phenom son (Allen) to go to Big State University, which is the governor’s alma mater, in...

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1980s / Action / Comedy / Thriller

48 Hrs. (1982)

In Walter Hill’s 48 Hrs., two escaped convicts end up killing a couple of officers, and fellow officer Jack Cates (Nick Nolte) must track them down. He enlists the help of another convict Reggie Hammond...