A Perfect World
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Movie Reviews of A Perfect World
Movie Review: best eastwood directed film ever
Summary: 5 Stars
this is one great movie, as everyone (almost) on this site seems to agree. i read these reviews because i was hoping there might be some reference to the music. there is a scene where kevin costner and the boy are given refuge for the night by a black farmworker. the next day costner sees the victrola and plays a cajun record. i was hoping to find out the name of the song and the original artists.
as to the jehovah's witness issues, i might be somewhat annoyed with the presentation if i were a member, but i must add that nowhere in the movie is it ever expressed that phillip is not allowed to eat cotton candy or ride roller coasters because he is a JW. the only things mentioned that he cannot do are celebrate halloween and christmas (and maybe birthdays - i can't remember.) those other things are forbidden to lots of children not just JW's. i don't think my mother allowed me to eat cotton candy either and i sure couldn't go on a roller coaster until i was taller than the line on the entrance. on the contrary, phillip insists that his mother is a really great mom. (and most kids steal something at one time or another and you would have to be pretty paranoid to think that the writer/director et al are anti-JW because they have the child stealing a halloween costume.
it's a great movie - don't miss it.
Movie Review: no title
Summary: 5 Stars
In 1993, this was the best movie yet that Eastwood directed. Costner was perfect. It was right on target about lack of parenting and abuse and the consequences in adults. The damage that is done. Quite a moving experience. Eastwood does not back away from raw and hard emotion, nor does he give any answers. This, together with "This Boy's Life" , with De Niro, Ellen Barkin, and DiCaprio, really protray an abysmal picture of the way children are thought of in America. Children, our future, the best part of us. I was very affected by this film, of children in jeopardy. For a man who started out so silent and stony in his early movies, a man so hard and barren, in his direction he can really bring emotions to the quick - he never backs away. There is a real tender soft core here. One of the best movies of 1993. It says something and that something important that needs to be said in this country at this time. The child in this film was never in danger - it was always Costner, the adult victim of a damaged childhood. One small note: the child actor here grimaced a little too much, he looked forced and directed.Movie Review: Another masterpiece from Mr. Eastwood...
Summary: 5 Stars
I have always loved this film. It's an extremely intelligent, complex, and moving film. As other have said, it is definitely Clint's most underrated film. For unknown reasons, it never gathered an audience here. Costner gives probably his best performance to date here. He portrays an intelligent, complicated man, who ends up being a surrogate father to a boy (wonderfully played by TJ Lowther). Costner is an outlaw, a convict, yet he shows more tenderness and kindness to this boy than the boy's real family ever did. He ends up being a much better father to the boy than his real parents could ever be. Eastwood again shows how talented a director he is with his handling of the actors here. Costner and the boy give superlative performances. The film is not your standard bad guy/good guy film, because in real life, things are quite often in shades of gray. I really admire Clint Eastwood. He made several masterpieces in the 1990's (Bridges of Madison Country, Unforgiven, and this film). Check this film out. It's one of his best (which is really saying something)...Movie Review: Most underrated film of the '90s.
Summary: 5 Stars
Clint Eastwood's follow-up to his award-winning "A Perfect World" was this dark, unconventional masterpiece about fatherhood, masculinity and the criminal justice system. The cast is flawless, including Kevin Costner (never better), T.J. Lowther (as fine a child performance as you'll see), Laura Dern, and Eastwood himself (mostly comic relief, but devastating in his dramatic scenes). The screenplay is superb, from the smart dialogue to the examination of issues like the cyclical nature of violence. Eastwood as director is in peak form, especially during the film's riveting final 30 minutes in which the cinematography, music and editing all build to an unforgettable climax. An outstanding, overlooked film that is ripe for re-examination in the wake of Eastwood's recent Oscar winners "Mystic River" and "Million Dollar Baby."Movie Review: Costner's Best - A Must See
Summary: 5 Stars
And that's saying something, considering how much I love Field of Dreams.
This is a terrific movie that Kevin Costner absolutely shines in.
Cast against type, he gives a mesmorizing performance as escaped con Butch Haynes.
They only quibble I have is toward the ending with the unsettling scene with the black family.
I understand that Butch has issues with child abuse but the scene goes on way too long and the implications of a murder about to take place make it difficult to watch.
But I guess that's the point.
I've watched this movie many times and still enjoy it immensely.