Rating: NR
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 02/24/2004
SubTitles: English/French/Japanese/KO/Por/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD
Run Time: 132 Minutes
Flags: Not For Children
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar
All hell breaks loose in a Texas town when an escaped convict heads home in
Arthur Penn's Southern gothic melodrama. Appointed by local kingpin Val Rogers (
E. G. Marshall), benevolent Sheriff Calder (
Marlon Brando) manages to keep the peace in Tarl, but the situation starts to fester one Saturday when news filters in that wild child Bubber Reeves (
Robert Redford) has jumped prison. Bubber's impending arrival arouses hostility among Tarl's citizens, such as Edwin Stewart (
Robert Duvall), who believes that Bubber will come after him to settle an old score, and Damon Puller (
Richard Bradford), who, between grope sessions with Edwin's wife Emily (
Janice Rule), uses Bubber as an excuse to terrorize black residents. As the atmosphere heats up, Calder wants to keep Bubber alive, and he convinces Bubber's wife Anna (
Jane Fonda) and her lover, Val's son Jake (
James Fox), to find Bubber and coax him into surrender. Val's fear that Bubber will kill his son, however, sparks a long confrontation that leaves rational law and order pummeled into the ground by the town's ignorant cruelty.
~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide
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