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Hey,
Recently, when I wrote about Clint Eastwood’s latest film, Cry,
Macho, someone responded who wrote that Eastwood had made a similar
road trip movie titled A Perfect World. In all honesty, I had never
heard of the film. Eastwood isn’t a go-to director for me, although
I try to see all of his films.
In this version, an escaped convict – Robert Butch Hayes played by
Kevin Costner – and a kidnapped 10-year-old – named Phillip Buzz
Perry and played by TJ Lowther – are high-tailing from pursuing law enforcement in a series of now-classic cars. The police – Chief Red Garnett, played by Clint Eastwood – and profiler Sally Gerber played
by Laura Dern – along with assorted deputies and FBI agents – are following in a command post stuck inside an Airstream mobile home.
The power of the film is the interactions between the convict and the
kid. It’s not an upbeat movie although it travels along as if it
were. A solid movie stifled by the baggage of its time.
Directed by Clint Eastwood from a screenplay by John Lee Hancock. Cinematography by Jack N Green and music by Lennie Niehaus. Also
starring Keith Szarabajka, Leo Burmester, and Bruce McGill, among
others.
I thought the picture was something of a mess - Eastwood's eye on the
budget, which dictates getting finished as quickly as possible, may
have gotten the better of him here.
With 20-20 hindsight, the Eastwood picture that this seems to correspond
most closely to, oddly enough, is Gran Torino, a more "finished" movie
but also a more melodramatic one. In both movies, Eastwood seems most interested in exploring the connections between characters of different generations who would seem to have nothing in common.
- Sol L. Siegel, Philadelphia, PA USA
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