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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $9.99 You Save: $4.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • Dubbed • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 14 September, 1990 DVD Release : 03 December, 2002 |
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State of Grace description Overshadowed by GoodFellas when it was released in 1990, State of Grace gradually emerged as one of the best New York gangster films of its decade. It was also the first to feature the Irish American mob known as the Westies. Here, their territory west of Times Square is being gentrified by an unwelcome infusion of yuppie cash, squeezing them into a reluctant alliance with Mafia kingpins. Frankie (Ed Harris) is the boss; little brother Jackie (Gary Oldman) is his volatile muscle; their friend Terry (Sean Penn) has returned from an extended absence, harboring a dangerous secret while rekindling his love for Frankie and Jackie's sister Kathleen (Robin Wright, Penn's future wife). Giving one of his scariest, most violent performances, Oldman offers stark, brutal contrast to Harris's pent-up fury, while Penn breathes life into his character's standard-issue dilemma. A former protégé of Steven Spielberg's, director Phil Joanou handles this gritty potboiler with confident, unobtrusive style, ramping up the tension of divided loyalties, even as the plot grows increasingly familiar. --Jeff Shannon |
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| Predictable and unbeleivable, to say the least. Ed Harris is not convincing as a mafia boss, and this makes the relationships between his cohorts, particularly Oldman, less than convincing as well.
Oldman's like a pot ready to boil, and while ridiculously unbelevable in his relationship to the boss (Ed Harris), his relationship with Sean Penn's character works and impresses even, at times. Like a seething volcano, Oldman is totally out of control. It's this intensity, I think, that makes it hard to beleive that he'd be taking orders from Harris. And when he does, well, there's your problem. Another good example of how unbeleivable this story plays out is Oldman's total cluelessness in relation to certain unfortunate events at the end of the movie. These are mob guys? The movie, while dragging somewhat mid-way, picks up momentum again for a while near the end, but kind of peters out again after that in a final cloud of melodramatic cliche scenes and acting with the help of John Turturro, the girlfriend, and Sean Penn himself. Maybe this movie suffered from too many big name actors. Don't buy this movie. It becomes Grade A cheddar by the end. For a much better old Sean Penn movie (with Christopher Walken), check out "At Close Range". |
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