After Dark, My Sweet
by James Foley
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Actor: Bruce Dern, Jason Patric, Rachel Ward, Rocky Giordani, Tom WagnerDirector: James Foley
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Running Time: 114 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-05-25
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Geneon [Pioneer]
Movie Reviews of After Dark, My Sweet
Movie Review: Didn't expect what I wanted to See.
Summary: 1 Stars
Its a ok movie,I didn't like it,I was expecting more action movie then alot of exrotic sex,some sex scene.
Summary of After Dark, My Sweet
The get-rich-quick-scheme of a sexy widow and a con man needs a perfect pawn to set it in motion. Their choice has a few skeletons in his closet, however, and he gets involved only to be close to the seductress. If he finds out she's manipulating him, the stakes could turn deadly. Jason Patric, Rachel Ward, Bruce DernIf you like the twisted, amoral characters that inhabit the world of pulp novelist Jim Thompson, you're going to love After Dark, My Sweet, one of the most faithful of many Thompson adaptations. Protagonist Kevin "Kid" Collins (Jason Patric), called "Collie" by those attracted to his shaggy dog side, escapes from a mental hospital and shuffles into a lonely desert town (and Patric really has the gait of a former pugilist down). Enter widow Fay Anderson (Rachel Ward), with legs that could stop a truck and a half-baked scheme to kidnap the scion of a rich family, which she's dreamed up with her unctuous and untrustworthy Uncle Bud (Bruce Dern), and it's the beginning of the end for the likable Kid.
After Dark, My Sweet is a film about judging people. No one is who they seem. Only by guessing their true intentions can Collins have a chance to survive. The film also has brilliant performances by the three leads, especially Dern, whose Uncle Bud is delightfully unhinged. Director James Foley (Glengarry Glen Ross, The Corruptor) is subtly adept at fleshing out the characters and their ambiguities, which solves the problem inherent in adapting Thompson's sleazy tales--namely, that much of the drama is internal, and therefore unfilmable). --Wayne Karrfalt
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