At Close Range

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At Close Range

At Close Range DVD cover
Directed by James Foley
Produced by Don Guest
Elliott Lewitt
Written by Elliott Lewitt (story)
Nicholas Kazan (story and screenplay)
Starring Sean Penn
Christopher Walken
Mary Stuart Masterson
Chris Penn
Music by Patrick Leonard
Madonna
Cinematography Juan Ruiz Anchía
Editing by Howard E. Smith
Distributed by Orion Pictures Corporation
Release date(s) April 18, 1986 (U.S. release)
Running time 111 min
Country United States
Language English
Budget $6,500,000 (estimated)
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At Close Range is based on the real life rural Pennsylvania crime family led by Bruce Johnston, Sr. which operated during the 1960s and 1970s. The film was released April 18, 1986, starring Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Chris Penn, Mary Stuart Masterson, Millie Perkins, Candy Clark and Crispin Glover. The film is directed by James Foley.

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The film stars Christopher Walken as Brad Whitewood, Sr., the leader of an organized crime family consisting of his brothers and close friends. One night, his estranged oldest son, Brad, Jr. (Sean Penn), contacts him after a fight he had with his mother's boyfriend. Eventually, he becomes involved with his father's criminal endeavors, resulting in starting his own gang with his brother, Tommy (Chris Penn), and friends. The boys get excited at the idea of easy money and decide one night to attempt a daring heist, which results in their arrest by the police. Their father believes that his sons and their friends will inform the police about his criminal activities, so he rapes Brad's girlfriend, Terry (Mary Stuart Masterson), as a warning to his eldest son. The attack results in the opposite effect as Brad, Jr. begins informing the authorities about his father's activities, including a murder of a snitch he witnessed. When the father's name is given to the grand jury by his own son, Brad, Sr. feels his only recourse is to eliminate every witness that can connect himself and his crew with his sons and their crew, and he has them killed one by one. He murders Tommy himself, but orders a hit against Brad, Jr. and Terry. Terry dies, but Brad, Jr. survives and is able to testify against his father.

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  • When Christopher Walken works with guns in films, he always checks them himself before each scene for safety reasons. During the scene near the end of this film (the confrontation between his character and Sean Penn's), before the director yelled, "Action," Penn ran off camera and shouted, "Give me the other gun!" He then returned to Walken and did the scene. This cut made it into the movie and Walken really was terrified of the gun in his face.
  • The role of Brad Whitewood, Sr. was offered to Robert De Niro, who turned it down because he felt the character was too dark.
  • Shots of the movie appear in the music video for Madonna's song "Live to Tell". Madonna and Sean Penn were married at the time, and the song served as the movie's theme song.

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