Hardcore (Widescreen) (Restored / Remastered)
- Starring: George C. Scott, Peter Boyle, Season Hubley
- Director: Paul Schrader
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"Oh my God, that's my daughter." So read the advertising copy of Hardcore. George C. Scott plays Jake Van Dorn, a man of means and conservative values who discovers that his precious daughter is appearing in ****** films. Desperately making his way through the sub-rosa world of ******, Van Dorn talks to pimps, prostitutes, and other such sterling individuals in hopes of locating his daughter and dragging her home. At one point, he falsely advertises himself as a ****** producer in hopes that his little girl will show up for an interview. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Features
- Genre: Drama
- Category: Post-Noir (Modern Noir), Psychological Drama
- Theme: Fathers and Daughters, Kids in Trouble, Obsessive Quests
- Release Date: September 14, 2004
- Rating: R (Restricted)Rating Opens in New Window - Adult Language, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Nudity, Strong Sexual Content
- Studio: Columbia TriStar
- Lead Actors: George C. Scott, Peter Boyle, Season Hubley, Leonard Gaines, Dick Sargent
- Supporting Actors: Ed Begley Jr., Larry Black, Jean Allison, Reb Brown, Gary Graham, Roy London, Bibi Besch, Tracey Walter, Paul Marin, Hal Williams, Dave Nichols, Marc Alaimo, Leslie Ackerman, Charlotte McGinnis, Ilah Davis, Will Walker
- Director: Paul Schrader
- Picture Format: Widescreen
- Run Time: 1 hr 48 min
- Subtitle Language: English, Japanese, Spanish
- Format: DVD
Additional Information
- DPCI: 246-00-8262
- ASIN: B002ICVRQE
- Catalog #: 11345382
- Item can not be gift wrapped.
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- Estimated Ship Dimensions : 7.58 inches length x 5.48 inches width x 0.59 inches height
- Estimated Ship Weight: 0.24 pound.
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For his second film as writer/director, Paul Schrader merged elements of his Midwestern Dutch Calvinist background, his cinephilia, and California post-'60s ****** decadence in the bleak drama Hardcore. Modeled -- like Taxi Driver (1976) -- after John Ford's seminal Western The Searchers (1956), Hardcore's story of a pious father's search for his runaway daughter takes an intense George C. Scott from his upstanding Michigan home through the sordid wilderness of the California ****** world. Scott's revulsion is matched by the film's morbid fascination with the ****** industry. Peter Boyle's unsavory private investigator and Season Hubley's strung-out ****** serve as compelling protectors and guides. True to the Ford antecedent, Scott's daughter resists her rescue, but the clumsily incongruous ending carries none of The Searchers' or Taxi Driver's expressive ambiguity. Even with its flaws, however, Hardcore's stolidly mournful, occasionally complex examination of a cultural dark side is almost everything Joel Schumacher's ultra-sleazy ****** odyssey 8MM (1999) wants to be but isn't. Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide
