Convicts

Convicts
by Peter Masterson

Convicts
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Actor: Carlin Glynn, James Earl Jones, Lukas Haas, Robert Duvall, Starletta DuPois
Director: Peter Masterson
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-04-12
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

Movie Reviews of Convicts

Movie Review: Convicts
Summary: 1 Stars

Don't waste your money like I did.......Robert Duvall westerns are usually great but this one was MAD !!!!!!

Summary of Convicts

The works of Texas-born writer Horton Foote are always dealing with transition and transformation, caused by the intermingling of time and experience, and Convicts is a prime example of Foote's thematic consistency. It's also one of several fruitful collaborations between Foote and actor Robert Duvall, whose career has connected with Foote's at pivotal moments since Duvall's screen debut in the Foote-scripted classic To Kill a Mockingbird. And while Convicts may lack the emotional power of 1971's Tomorrow or the dramatic delicacy of 1983's Tender Mercies, it adds resonance to their mutual body of work. Here, in a story set in coastal Texas in 1902, Duvall plays an eccentric, dying sugar-plantation boss who takes a young boy (Lukas Haas) under his wing to teach him a few of life's harsher lessons.

His frontiers long since conquered, with slaves of the past now replaced by local convict laborers, the boss is a stubborn, violent, hardened relic of a bygone era, and Duvall's performance breathes feisty life into a man who's ready for death (well, almost), but not without firing a few more rounds from his trusty Colt .45. It's a bit theatrical (and veteran stage director Peter Masterson--Mary Stuart's father--approaches Foote's play adaptation with dry visual style), but Convicts is bathed in the candlelight of a passing age, and its tone is suitably wise and keenly observant. Barely released in theaters, this film is ripe for rediscovery. --Jeff Shannon


Oscar? winner* Robert Duvall "is terrific" (The New York Times) in this "vividly realized" (Variety) drama co-starring Lucas Haas (Witness) and James Earl Jones (Field of Dreams). "Gracefully adapted to the screen" (Los Angeles Times) by Horton Foote (Of Mice and Men) and ably directed by Peter Masterson (Blood Red) this riveting tale of an unlikely bond is "a tasty feast" (LA Weekly)!In rural Texas 1902 13-year-old Horace (Haas) toils on a run-down plantation to buy a tombstone for the father he lost a year earlier. Soll (Duvall) the crusty old Confederate who owns the plantation has yet to pay the boy a penny of the money he owes him. But on Christmas Eve as Soll becomes obsessed with his own mortality he makes a grand promise forcing Horace to confront his fear of death and the harsh truths of a decadent society.*1983: Actor Tender MerciesSystem Requirements:Running Time: 93 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 027616921840 Manufacturer No: 1008146

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