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Like father. Like son. Like hell.
Brad Whitewood Jr. lives in rural Pennsylvania and has few prospects. Against his mother's wishes, he seeks out his estranged father, the head of a gang of thieves in a nearby town. Though his new girlfriend supports his criminal ambitions, Brad Jr. soon learns that his father is a dangerous man.
CinemaSerf
Dec 7, 2024 · via TMDB
The last twenty minutes of this rather enliven it, but otherwise it's rather dull story of "Brad" (Sean Penn) who is rather in awe of his criminal "Dad Brad" (Christopher Walken) and hopes to one day emulate what he sees as his glamorous lifestyle. One such day arrives when the father agrees to plan a robbery for his son to execute only things don't go to plan and just about everyone discovers just how vicious the older man can be when it comes to his own self-preservation. Most of this is really just an excuse for Penn to wander around shirtless showing off his pecs whilst a few variations of Madonna's "Live to Tell" serenade us from the sidelines. The two women who feature here - Mary Stuart Masterson's "Terry" and Millie Perkins's "Julie" make little impact on the Penn family beauty pageant (his brother Chris also features as his younger sibling "Tommy") and though Walken emanates just an hint of menace as the plot thickens, it's all just too little too late by the end when I really wasn't bothered about this repetitive tale of a dysfunctional family with testicles where their brains ought to be. It's based on a real life family in Philadelphia, and maybe that notoriety is all that helps this remain memorable. Neither the writing nor the vaguely pugilistic Penn and his John Wayne walk can do that.
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Sean Penn
Bradford 'Brad' Whitewood Jr.
Christopher Walken
Bradford 'Brad' Whitewood Sr.
Mary Stuart Masterson
Terry
Chris Penn
Thomas 'Tommy' Whitewood
Millie Perkins
Julie
Eileen Ryan
Grandma
Tracey Walter
Uncle Patch Whitewood
David Strathairn
Tony Pine
J.C. Quinn
Boyd
Candy Clark
Mary Sue
Jake Dengel
Lester Perowski
Kiefer Sutherland
Tim
Stephen Geoffreys
Aggie
Crispin Glover
Lucas
Noelle Parker
Jill
Alan Autry
Ernie
Paul Herman
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James Foley
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R. D. Call
Dickie
Jem Cohen
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Chuck Waters
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Chuck Waters
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James Foley
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Kerry Lyn McKissick
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Steven Shainberg
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Stefan Czapsky
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Risa Bramon Garcia
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