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Criminally overlooked masterpiece

posted 17 years ago by angelthman
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This film is a forgotten masterpiece. You can tell by the lack of posts on this board. It needs to be rediscovered. Next to Midnight Cowboy, it's Shlesinger's best.

Oddly enough, the music is remembered, as it should be, but the movie should be remembered as well.

Unfortunately, it's a film about losers, as one previous poster so eloquently put it, and Americans can only find value in films depicting heroes, ie Iron Man.

Shame, shame, shame...

[–] adscomputing 17 years ago

I noticed your interst in the movie and I have a friend that was incarcerated in the satellite camp in Marion Illinois when Christopher Boyce was incarcerated in the protective (celebrity) wing in the basement. He has hand written letters to Michael Tobias' lawyer regarding his impending incarceration and he is willing to sell them to the highest bidder. The letters are dated for October 23, 1985.

Would you know where I may find an interested buyer? These letters are verifiably authentic.

[–] henrimayard 16 years ago

Who authenticated them? All I can say is that you're pretty slimy for wanting to sell a piece of someone's life. I'm sure I speak for a lot of people when i say - who gives a *beep* about letters to someone's lawyer (which are legally protected and you can be sued) that YOU claim are "verifiably authentic"... GET A JOB.

[–] sltfilho 16 years ago

Well, there might be a historical value in it, isn't that possible?

Anyways, this film is a quite nice little film, I'm recomending to others.

It's funny how Timothy Hutton was like this charming guy and turned out not being A-team in hollywood later. He's like a Paul Walker or something. But Paul Walker are always on those MTV movies. Anyways, they both do a nice job and Sean Penn is really funny as the spoiled prick having no idea on what they're doing. This could easily be a Cohen brothers film, if Hutton's character wasn't so counscious. I'm recommending it to my friends as a nostalgic political/spionage film.

[–] BethH24 15 years ago

It is a brilliant film.It deserves more recognition !

[–] clogan8307 15 years ago

I agree. This is one of the best movies of the 80's and helped define the era kind of like the movie "Wall Street" as far as the fears of that decade are concerned. Of course, I know this movie was set before the 80's but it showed what was on American minds back in those days with the USA-USSR rivalry.

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[–] erikriveros 15 years ago

to the OP....

your jibe at america was cute, but if you think hollywood only puts out movies that show americans in a good light, never criticing its past, its leaders or its people you really need to see a couple of more movies....really ...

second, please point out in which country the trend is for their movie companies to show their people/leaders/etc. in a negative light...it's ok, i'll wait...

lastly, why can't some nice european, or asian - bollywood aside - film companies try to match hollywood..seriously...hollywood has had the carry the film industry for planet earth for more than 90 years...isn't it about time that another country steps up?!? just a thought...

putz.

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[–] CCRider01 14 years ago

Yep,and total underrated on IMDB. This movie also needs a BluRay release, perhaps Extended Version. The film is a subject matter that many Americans would probably choose to forget, being it was about "traitors" during a time when the Cold War was still on going.

[–] RazzberryBeret 14 years ago

Totally agree with the OP. This film has held up incredibly well. 6.6/10 is a ridiculous rating.

[–] Vidar33 14 years ago

at least 8.0 as far as I am concerned. Any Blu-Ray special edition in sight perhaps?

[–] fanaticita 14 years ago

I have found this film listed on every website for spy/espionage films. It has always been considered one of the best. I recently watched The Company with Michael Keaton, and Cambridge Spies. This reminded me a lot of both. Great film!

[–] nutsberryfarm 13 years ago

thx for those recs!

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[–] GuyOnTheLeft 11 years ago

I am really puzzled by that rating. I can imagine a lot of people never having seen it; but for a movie that was so critically acclaimed to get such a low rating seems bizarre.

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