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      After Dark, My Sweet

      R Released Aug 24, 1990 1h 54m Crime Drama List
      80% 20 Reviews Tomatometer 62% 1,000+ Ratings Audience Score After escaping from a mental hospital, drifting ex-boxer Kid Collie (Jason Patric) meets an alcoholic widow, Fay (Rachel Ward), who entices him into performing maintenance work at her estate. When crooked Uncle Bud (Bruce Dern) joins the two, Fay's darker side begins to appear. Bud and Fay concoct a scheme to kidnap the son of a local wealthy family and have Collie carry out the dirty work, to which the troubled ex-boxer agrees, but he soon has second thoughts. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Aug 06 Buy Now

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      scott m While the acting in this film is good, the story is terrible. Plus, the overall feeling by the cinematographer is off. I just didn't feel any danger or suspense. Most of the time the characters actions were pointless. The dialog wasn't terrible though. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Philip D Underrated kidnap sleeper feat. great turns by Rachel Ward as the boozy seductress and - in particular-Bruce Dern as the loser criminal. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/23/22 Full Review Audience Member Dragged and boring, somehow lost. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member An odd crime film, one that surprises the viewer because you only know as much as the crazed boxer knows and it does not help that he is deranged. Jason Patric is excellent here; indeed his career now looks like one long missed opportunity. But at least he has this one to hang his hat on. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Jason Patric nos entrega una memorable actuación interpretando a un boxeador vagabundo enfrentado a una mujer fatal (Rachel Ward) y un criminal (Bruce Dern), en esta cinta "noir", basada en una novela de Jim Thompson ("The Grifters", "The Getaway"). Una excelente fotografía y una muy buena dirección por parte de James Foley, hacen de "After Dark My Sweet" una cinta casi obligatoria para los fanáticos del "noir". Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Yet again, here I go reviewing a film from a while back('90). However, I just saw this again and had t give it a mention. Jason Patric is truly one of the better actors around but we rarely see him. In this one, he plays an ex-boxer who suffers from closed-head injury symptoms from blows to the head which can be seen by how he mumbles around due to his balance being affected. He gets mixed up with an alcoholic widow played by Rachel Ward and a burned out former lawman portrayed by another great actor by the name of Bruce Dern. These two lowlifes pull a reluctant Collie(Patric) into a kidnapping scheme in which the kid turns out to be diabetic making things all the more chaotic. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly Rated: C+ Sep 7, 2011 Full Review Vincent Canby New York Times A brisk, entertaining contemporary melodrama. Rated: 3.5/5 Aug 30, 2004 Full Review Peter Travers Rolling Stone The film is a hot-wired crime thriller that captures [Jim] Thompson's flair for hard action, malicious wit and fevered eroticism. May 12, 2001 Full Review Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid It's a modern noir that, rather than merely cheerfully copying the genre conventions, understands despair from the inside. Rated: 3.5/4 Nov 20, 2023 Full Review Terry Francis Southern Voice (Atlanta) The film gets mired in unbelievable plot twists, and the screenplay wallows in a lot of phony angst. Rated: 1.5/4 May 9, 2023 Full Review Rene Jordan El Nuevo Herald (Miami) After Dark, My Sweet veers off from the source material rather scarcely, but serves to enrich it when it does. [Full review in Spanish] Nov 3, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis After escaping from a mental hospital, drifting ex-boxer Kid Collie (Jason Patric) meets an alcoholic widow, Fay (Rachel Ward), who entices him into performing maintenance work at her estate. When crooked Uncle Bud (Bruce Dern) joins the two, Fay's darker side begins to appear. Bud and Fay concoct a scheme to kidnap the son of a local wealthy family and have Collie carry out the dirty work, to which the troubled ex-boxer agrees, but he soon has second thoughts.
      Director
      James Foley
      Producer
      Cary Brokaw
      Production Co
      Avenue Pictures Productions
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Crime, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Aug 24, 1990, Original
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jun 1, 2007
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $535.0K
      Runtime
      1h 54m
      Sound Mix
      Surround
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