Hardcore
by Paul Schrader
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Actor: Dick Sargent, George C. Scott, Leonard Gaines, Peter Boyle, Season HubleyDirector: Paul Schrader
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-14
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
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Summary: 5 Stars
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Summary of Hardcore
A powerful unflinching glimpse into the dark bizarre world of the pornography industry. George C. Scott (Academy Award? Winner Best Actor Patton 1971) gives a strong sensitive portrayal of a deeply religious Midwestern businessman whose daughter while on a church-sponsored outing runs away from home. He hires an oddball detective (Peter Boyle TV's "Everybody Loves Raymond") who learns that the daughter has been making cheap sex films. When the father realizes that he can no longer trust the detective he decides to hunt for his daughter himself. Posing as a porno film producer casting a new movie he gathers clues with ferocious determination. His treacherous journey gives him a fast hard lesson in big-city life and a close-up view of the world of porn its victims and exploiters. Finally with the help of a prostitute he locates his daughter. But is it too late?System Requirements:Running Time: 107 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA Rating:?R UPC:?043396049390 Manufacturer No:?04939Although it never achieved the classic status of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver or the greater critical acclaim of his own Blue Collar, Hardcore remains a vital film from the early career of writer-director Paul Schrader. It's a solid companion piece to Taxi Driver (and uses much of the same crew, including cinematographer Michael Chapman), with a similar descent-into-hell storyline. Schrader's strict Calvinist upbringing in Grand Rapids, Michigan, provides the semi-autobiographical launching point for a journey into the dark heart of pornography and prostitution, beginning when a stern, morally upright Calvinist father (George C. Scott) learns that his teenage daughter has vanished during a church-sponsored visit to California. She's a runaway on a rapidly downward spiral, and Scott recruits a sleazy private detective (Peter Boyle) and a sympathetic porno-actress (Season Hubley) to try and find her. Although Schrader's much-criticized ending doesn't ring entirely true, there's much to admire here, from Scott's memorably anguished performance to the vivid authenticity of the film's seedy, threatening locations and the conflicting moral issues raised in an atmosphere of hopeless depravity. As its title suggests, Hardcore is a potent, uncompromising film, definitely not for prudes or underage viewers. --Jeff Shannon
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