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After Dark, My Sweet

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Jason Patric, Bruce Dern and Rachel Ward in After Dark, My Sweet (1990)
Jason Patric, Bruce Dern and Rachel Ward in After Dark, My Sweet (1990)
After Dark, My Sweet

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Directed by James Foley
Produced by Ric Kidney
Robert Redlin
Written by Jim Thompson (novel)
Robert Redlin
James Foley
Starring Jason Patric
Rocky Giordani
Rachel Ward
Bruce Dern
Music by Maurice Jarre
Distributed by Avenue Pictures Productions
Release date(s) August 24, 1990 (Toronto Film Festival)
Running time 114 min
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language English
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After Dark, My Sweet (1990) is a neo-noir film directed by James Foley starring Jason Patric, Bruce Dern, and Rachel Ward. It is based on the 1955 Jim Thompson novel of the same name. Ex-boxer Kevin "Kid" Collins is a drifter and an escapee from a mental hospital. He meets Fay Anderson, a widow, who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her ex-husband left. Her Uncle Bud talks them both into helping kidnap a rich boy for ransom money, and the ex-fighter must make decisions about his loyalties and what is right.

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Roger Ebert in his Great films review of the movie wrote "After Dark, My Sweet is the movie that eluded audiences; it grossed less than $3 mllion, has been almost forgotten, and remains one of the purest and most uncompromising of modern films noir. It captures above all the lonely, exhausted lives of its characters." [1] Writer David M. Meyers praised the script "The screenplay, which hews closely to Jim Thompson's heartless novel, is unusually tight, spare, and well constructed."[2]

References

  1. Roger Ebert's review
  2. ^ David M. Meyer (1998). A Girl and a Gun: The Complete Guide to Film Noir on Video. Avon Books. ISBN 0-380-79067-X. 

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