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A Perfect World, a story of love, friendship and camaraderie@petercurator970d

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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 their father.

Agents like Ranger Red Garnett (Clint Eastwood) and criminologist Sally (Laura Dern) will continue to track the fugitives, and the kidnapping case takes on an increasingly risky character and characteristics of criminal knowledge.

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Growing up between kidnappers and hostages. A friendship that is both beautiful and strange, that, while stealing from and trusting each other, is very exciting because there is a sense of freedom between the two.

As noted by screenwriter John L. Hancock, some aspects of the plot are similar to Brave Man Alone (Miller, 1962).

It incorporates echoes of westerns, especially the sublime sequence of Sally and Red's late-night conversations.

The filmmaker is at pains to show us that he is most interested in losers and children, and the relationship between the child's innocence and Butch's status as a fugitive in Justice, Philip's search for the father he never had and Butch's concern that made him see the child as a projection of his own childhood.

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Indeed, in the days that followed, Butch assumed the role of the ideal father to his son while feeling appreciated and respected by his son.

The film tells a story of love, friendship and camaraderie, following the maturation of a boy who discovers many things in just a few days: about the importance of clothes, fun, entertainment and children's attractions for children; about the obstacles that stand in the way of play and entertainment, the inconvenience of moral codes; the biographical background of criminal acts; the spiritual causes that often lie behind them; the breadth of the possibilities of human redemption, etc.

Reject fanaticism, especially religious fanaticism and certain police brutality, as well as the exaggerated opportunism of some politicians.

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›Film Review: A Perfect World (1993)@drax1279d

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 Costner) escapes from Huntsville prison together with his psychopathic cellmate Terry Pugh (played by Keith Szarabajka). In need of fresh vehicle, two of them stumble on family home where they are discovered from people in the neighbourhood and forced to take 8-year old Philip “Buzz” Perry (played by T. J. Lowther) as hostage. Butch continues with escape and, after taking out increasingly dangerous Terry, begins to befriend his hostage who is raised in Jehovah Witness’ home and, being deprived of many things other boys take for granted, sees his trip away from home as exciting adventure. In the meantime, manhunt is led by Chief “Red” Garnett (played by Clint Eastwood), Texas Ranger who is given some valuable resources for the task – huge trailer equipped with various high-tech gadgets that make it into mobile headquarters, prison criminologist Sally Gerber (played by Laura Dern) who is supposed to give psychological profile of Butch and FBI expert marksman Bobby Lee (played by Bradley Whitford) who is supposed to solve the problem if peaceful alternatives don’t work.

When he made A Perfect World, Eastwood was increasingly feeling more comfortable behind than in front of camera. It was Kevin Costner, a renowned actor-director himself, who talked him into taking the role, although much smaller than in most of his films. Eastwood is solid in his role, displaying his usual brand of macho attitude and cynicism, yet tempered with old age. His work as an actor is, however, easily overshadowed by Costner who delivers one of the most complex and potentially risky roles of his career. After playing squeaky clean heroic protagonists of epic dramas, Costner here plays character who, behind his seemingly charming exterior of lovable rogue hides ugly personal demons that finally reveal themselves in a frightening and extremely unpleasant scene shortly before the end of the film. Costner had good partner in child actor T. J. Lowther who, for the most part, managed to avoid being irritating as many child actors in Hollywood films can be. Costner and Lowther established good dynamic and despite their characters’ relationship toying with cliches, it is mostly realistic and believable – Butch in little boy sees innocent, happy childhood he didn’t have while Buzz in strange man sees father he never had. Apart from very good cast, Eastwood also had his old associates to help him with talents – cinematographer Jack N. Green and composer Lennie Niehaus. Both of them made A Perfect World look and sound like first class Hollywood production.

Yet, despite its title, A Perfect World is far from perfect as a film. Main problem can be found in script by John Lee Hancock, Texan who was perhaps too enamoured with opportunity to use his native state as setting, so the plot is often going all over the place. On one hand, his script maintains good genre mix of road film, sentimental drama, chase film and occasional detour towards comedy, but there are simply too many subplots and theme A Perfect World tries to explore. Apart from the simple story about escaped convict trying to find freedom or some sort of redemption, there is some heavy-handed social and historical commentary in form of Garnett’s team being divided on gender and ideological lines – Sally Gerber, as the only female, represents liberal and progressive strand of 1960s America, at least nominally opposed to Garnett, while trigger-happy Bobby Lee is represented as sexist troglodyte and embodiment of everything which is wrong with society. The weakest element of the script is, however, a suggestion that the events in this film had played part in making the JFK assassination possible; it is likely that this detail was entered into the script as way for to exploit audience’s obsession with the event on its 30th anniversary. Another problem is, however, Eastwood’s direction which takes things a little bit too slow, making A Perfect World overlong, especially in final scene which is at least ten minutes longer than it should have been. However, even with those flaws, this is a fine film that could be recommended even to the viewers that aren’t greatest of Costner’s or Eastwood’s fans.

RATING: 6/10 (++)

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›A Perfect World (film): A forgotten Costner film@gooddream2643d
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.
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This person I am referring to is someone that in all liklihood should be kept away from other people. He is a strange one and when you travel the world you will at times, encounter some crazies. For whatever reason this person didn't want to kill me... although that was the sentiment he had to virtually everyone else he encountered.

Anyway, it is not about him. It is about "A Perfect World" which like tons of other people, I had not heard of until a crazy person told me they love the film (perhaps the crazy person part doesn't apply to that many people.)
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Kevin Costner plays the role of Robert "Butch" Haynes, an escaped convict who will do anything to not go back to prison. He unwittingly ends up becoming a bit attached to what is meant to be a hostage (the young boy in the photo.)

Clint Eastwood plays the part of Texas Ranger Red Garnett, who is relentlessly pursuing Butch in order to bring him to justice and retrieve the boy. Clint is significantly less important to the story and Costner is, and that is evident in the allotted screen-time.
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perhaps it is because I am bit older than most of the people that are potentially reading that and perhaps it is because of the fact that I don't really understand why Kevin Costner just kind of disappeared from the movie scene years ago. He is a fantastic actor and well, maybe he pissed of Harvey Weinstein or something.

Keep in mind that this movie was released back in 1993 when Costner was likely nearing his apex and Eastwood was still thought of as an actor rather than the incredible director that he turned into after the turn of the millennium.

I think this movie is a bypassed treasure, especially if you have obvious "daddy issues" like my crazy friend that recommended it to me in the first place. This movie moves along well, has some nice touching moments and a fantastic ending that perhaps you don't expect. I can't give this movie top marks, but I can give it close to it.

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