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Post by hi224 on Apr 12, 2020 23:30:52 GMT
A great movie, and should've been Lancasters Oscar as well.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 13, 2020 3:27:47 GMT
It had cool posters too
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 13, 2020 3:30:11 GMT
Lancaster never disappoints !
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Post by rudeboy on Apr 13, 2020 4:19:27 GMT
Brilliant performance. That Henry Fonda defeated him for the treacly On Golden Pond is a shame on the Academy. Lancaster is so deeply moving, so magnificent... one of the great performances of the ‘80s.
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Post by petrolino on Apr 14, 2020 20:09:23 GMT
Fine film.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Apr 14, 2020 20:14:06 GMT
Lancaster never disappoints ! Never
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 14, 2020 20:14:47 GMT
Brilliant performance. That Henry Fonda defeated him for the treacly On Golden Pond is a shame on the Academy. Lancaster is so deeply moving, so magnificent... one of the great performances of the ‘80s. Yet another of those years where a tie would have been nice !
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Post by teleadm on Apr 15, 2020 5:48:57 GMT
I wrote this about a year ago:
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster (Lancaster) and the estranged wife (Sarandon) of a pot dealer (Joy) find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
The movie that is said to have put Burt Lancaster's career back on the map, and he is wonderful as the once big mobster who like the Atlantic City has decayed into has-beens, but maybe he was more of a dreamer of the big times, and maybe wasn't even something big at all, now running around collecting money and bets for an old-time numbers game. His only joy is being a voyeur, looking at his young female neighbour looking through the blinds of his window. The young female, beautifully played by Sarandon, has come to Atlantic City to start a new life, just as the city was starting a new life with new casinos buing built around the area. Into her life comes comed her husband, who runned away with her young hippie sister once, also they comes to Atlantic City with big dreams, with stolen narcotica. McLaren and Joy plays those characters very well, since they are so dispicable, dumb and naive it's easy to hate them. Lancaster's character's real job was to look after a gangster's moll and former beauty queen, played by Reid.
When Sarandon's husband is murdered, Lancaster has a lot of narcotica hidden in his apartment that he begins to sell, and suddenly he's into the money that he's dremed of for over 40 years and begins to live up.
What I liked about this movie, and it's characters, is that it only registers them, it doesn't judge or condemn them, even in criminality, we just follow them for a short time.
I also liked the locations of Atlantic City at the time of it's re-birth after years of decay.
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