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A Perfect World is a 1993 American crime thriller film directed by Clint Eastwood. It stars Kevin Costner as an escaped convict who takes a young boy hostage and attempts to escape on the road with the child. Eastwood co-stars as a Texas Ranger in pursuit of the convict.
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Source Texas, 1963. Butch Haynes (Kevin Costner), a dangerous and intelligent criminal with a tortured childhood that left him with wounds to his private parts, escapes from Huntsville Penitentiary with another inmate. During their escape, the two are forced to take hostage an eight-year-old boy, Philip (T.J. Lowther), who lives with his devout Jehovah's Witness mother and his two sisters, both abandoned by t…More
Clint Eastwood didn’t sleep on the laurels following *Unforgiven*, the greatest triumph of his career. Only a year later he produced and directed *A Perfect World*, period crime drama which predictably didn’t match quality of its predecessor, but nevertheless represented a fine example of film making. The plot is set in 1963 Texas and begins on Halloween when a career criminal Robert “Butch” Haynes (played by Kevin…More
Was this the beginning stages of Clint Eastwood as a director? I don't know and I am not going to look it up. The reason why I became attached to this film is because of a guy that I know that really just hated almost all traditional cinema but for some reason loved "A Perfect World," a film I had never heard of. source This person I am referring to is someone that in all liklihood should be kept away from other peo…More
