The Border R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 11, 2004
- Originally Released: 1981
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Harvey Keitel & Jack Nicholson | |
Performer: | Valerie Perrine, Warren Oates, Elpidia Carrillo, Shannon Wilcox, Manuel Viescas, Jeff Morris, Mike Gomez, Dirk Blocker & Lonny Chapman | |
Directed by | Tony Richardson | |
Edited by | Robert K. Lambert | |
Screenwriting by | David Freeman, Walon Green & Deric Washburn | |
Composition by | Ry Cooder | |
Director of Photography: | Ric Waite |
Entertainment Reviews:
...[Nicholson delivers a] multi-leveled performance...
Variety
The Border is surprisingly tepid stuff for a Jack Nicholson vehicle.
Full Review
Boston Globe
...Made with intelligence....Nicholson supplies Charlie with reserves of feeling...
New York Times
Jack Nicholson's vivid and earnest performance holds The Border together.
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Spirituality and Practice
Rating: 4/5 --
Assumindo características de western, o filme faz uma bela crítica às hipocrisias e futilidades do american way of life e traz uma das melhores atuações de Nicholson.
Cinema em Cena
Rating: 5/5 --
If you want to see Jack Nicholson give a simple, compelling performance with absolutely no hambone antics, look no further than this underrated drama.
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eFilmCritic.com
Rating: 3/5 --
Nicholson as border cop is interesting casting.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Product Description:
Possibly the closest that Jack Nicholson has ever come to playing an old-fashioned hero was the role of Charlie Smith, in a film whose writers had worked on THE WILD BUNCH and THE DEER HUNTER. A U.S. border patrol guard who's disenchanted with his work, Charlie accedes to his wife, Marcy's (Valerie Perrine), wishes to move to El Paso so they can enjoy a higher standard of living and stay in a duplex near her friend Savannah (Shannon Wilcox), and her husband, Cat (Harvey Keitel), who also works for the border patrol. But after relocating, Charlie is so appalled by the level of corruption and bribery of the area's guards, which includes running illegal aliens across the border to work as farmhands and which is run by Cat, that he initially opts not to become involved. He realizes he has to go on the take, however, when Marcy, an eager consumer, racks up some serious debts while decorating their new apartment. Charlie takes an interest in Maria (Elpidia Carrillo), an illegal who has returned the hubcaps her brother stole from him, regarding her as an emblem of the purity long absent from his own life. When her baby is kidnapped and sold to Cat for resale to adoptive parents, Charlie decides to act. Jack shelves his usual mannerisms to give one of the most powerful and underrated performances of his career, in an effective, low-key melodrama about a situation that hasn't changed a whit in the decades since the film was made.
Keywords:
Action
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Race Relations
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Suspense
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Thriller
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Murder
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Poverty
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Police
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Theatrical Release
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Crime