The Friends Of Eddie Coyle R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 42 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 19, 2009
- Originally Released: 1973
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Robert Mitchum & Peter Boyle | |
Performer: | Richard Jordan, Steven Keats, Alex Rocco, Joe Santos, Mitchell Ryan & Peter MacLean | |
Directed by | Peter Yates | |
Screenplay by | Paul Monash | |
Composition by | Dave Grusin | |
Cinematography by | Victor J. Kemper | |
Produced by | Paul Monash |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Chilling gangster melodrama.
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Sky Cinema
Rating: 5/5 --
Robert Mitchum brings late-career gravitas to this brilliant Boston-set crime thriller.
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The Skinny
A very fine film about real people on the fringes of both crime and law enforcement.
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Variety
There's not one phony note in the film....A lost treasure...
Entertainment Weekly
The best Boston movie evah.
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The ARTery
Rating: 3.5/5 --
A bit gruesome, but potent viewing nonetheless.
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TV Guide
A daft and insightful look at the gray world between criminal and straight.
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Chicago Reader
Product Description:
A highwater mark in 1970s crime drama, THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE doesn’t dabble in stylized glamour--the film depicts Boston’s dirty cops and desperate crooks as rumpled, weary, and working just to get by. Robert Mitchum stars as Eddie "Fingers" Coyle, a local gunrunner who’s just run out of luck: faced with possible jail time, he must decide whether to take the rap or sell out his criminal customers in exchange for freedom. Legendary for his tough-guy performances, Mitchum endows the antihero with such simmering self-loathing and realistic mannerisms that many critics consider it one of the actor’s finest hours.
Product Description:
In one of the best performances of his legendary career, Robert Mitchum plays small-time gunrunner Eddie “Fingers” Coyle in Peter Yates’s adaptation of George V. Higgins’s acclaimed novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle. World-weary and living hand to mouth, Coyle works on the sidelines of the seedy Boston underworld just to make ends meet. But when he finds himself facing a second stretch of hard time, he’s forced to weigh loyalty to his criminal colleagues against snitching to stay free. Directed with a sharp eye for its gritty locales and an open heart for its less-than-heroic characters, this is one of the true treasures of 1970s Hollywood filmmaking—a suspenseful crime drama in stark, unforgiving daylight.
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