Fighting Back

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Fighting Back

R

1982

1h 38m

Crime

Drama

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An Italian deli owner (Tom Skerritt) forms a vigilante group to rid his Philadelphia neighborhood of street punks.

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Gary Arnold

Washington Post

A good deal of acting talent is wasted on negligible or disreputable material in Fighting Back.

Jul 28, 2015

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Richard F. Shepard

New York Times

Although the message does not get delivered with crystal clarity, the movie is fast-moving, attention-holding and even thoughtprovoking.

Jul 28, 2015

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Paul Taylor

Time Out

There's political conscience somewhere in the script which places its hero as a blood-lust racist and an opportunist politico, but it's all too easily drowned by the crowd-pleaser set pieces of 'righteous' revenge.

Jul 28, 2015

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TV Guide

A muddled narrative undercuts this overly ambitious film's attempt to explore urban vigilantism, and diffuses any insights the film might have offered.

Rated: 2/5

Jul 28, 2015

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Ambitious but heavily flawed urban thriller.

Rated: C+

Jul 14, 2015

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Jonathan O

Fighting Back is a different kind of Death Wish and Vigilante but is a solid entertaining revenge action thriller and it's shocking of violence and about politics of violence and gangs thugs home invasion and all the stuff what's going on in America.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

08/11/23

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Audience Member

Great 80's film with a classic good fighting back at the bad guys in life theme to it.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Audience Member

Urban decay prompts a Philadelphia deli operator to form a neighbourhood citizen patrol that takes the offensive with thugs. Pretty realistic, right down to the mayor frowning on such activity when he feels the man threatens him politcally.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/13/23

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Audience Member

Fed up with the rampant crime in his neighborhood, a local shop owner organizes a neighborhood watch to take back the streets by any means necessary. At times a little over the top but still entertaining vigilante thriller.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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Audience Member

Effective, if a bit silly. Skerritt is earnest, though never quite Italian.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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Boasts the epic scope, ambition and seemingly (if not actually) length of a "Godfather" film. The quality, not so much, though it can be interestingly bizarre.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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Lewis Teague

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Tom Skerritt

John D'Angelo

Patti LuPone

Lisa D'Angelo

Michael Sarrazin

Vince Morelli

Yaphet Kotto

Ivanhoe Washington

David Rasche

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Synopsis

An Italian deli owner (Tom Skerritt) forms a vigilante group to rid his Philadelphia neighborhood of street punks.

Director: Lewis Teague
Producer: D. Constantine Conte, David Permut
Screenwriter: Tom Hedley, David Zelag Goodman
Production Co: Dino De Laurentiis Company
Rating: R
Genre: Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 38m

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