A Perfect World PG-13

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  • Cast/Writer Film Highlights
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Languages: English, French
  • Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
  • Rated: PG-13
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 18 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: October 1, 2002
  • Originally Released: 1993
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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User Ratings: 41,898
Star Kevin Costner and director Clint Eastwood deliver lean, finely chiseled work in A PERFECT WORLD, a somber, subtly nuanced study...
Variety
Nov 29, 1993
Rating: 8/10 -- A tender, poignant, ultimately heartbreaking film filled with haunting, lasting images and nicely eccentric touches. Arguably Costner's best performance, and one of Eastwood's most underrated efforts behind the camera.
FulvueDrive-in.com
Mar 3, 2006
In going beyond chase-yarn duty, Eastwood and Costner do themselves proud.
Rolling Stone
Jun 6, 2001
Rating: 4/4 -- It's an American masterpiece. Full Review
Film Freak Central
Nov 26, 2013
Rating: 4/4 -- This is a movie that surprises you. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: 3.5/4 -- A Perfect World is evidence that Hollywood is still capable of producing the kinds of moving, intelligent movies that have increasingly become the province of independent film makers. Full Review
ReelViews
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: B -- Entertaining manhunt film. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Jan 6, 2012

Description by OLDIES.com:

Double Academy Award-winners Kevin Costner and Clint Eastwood confront each other from opposite sides of the law in A Perfect World, an acclaimed, multilayered manhunt saga (directed by Eastwood) that rumbles down Texas backroads toward a harrowing collision with fate.

Costner plays Butch Haynes, a hardened prison escapee on the lam with a young hostage (T.J. Lowther in a remarkable film debut) who sees in Butch the father figure he never had. Eastwood is wily Texas Ranger Red Garnett, leading deputies and a criminologist (Laura Dern) in a statewide pursuit. Red knows every road and pothole in the Panhandle. What's more, he knows the elusive Haynes - because their paths have crossed before.

Product Description:

A PERFECT WORLD is set in Texas in 1963. Working from John Lee Hancock's original script, Clint Eastwood crafts a subtle and haunting work that features what is perhaps Kevin Costner's best performance. Costner plays against type as Butch Haynes, an escaped convict whose tendency toward violence is masked by his affability. Haynes escapes with a more blatantly dangerous convict, Terry Pugh, planning to ditch him as soon as they cross the border. But Pugh's lack of self-control gets them in trouble, and they take a young boy hostage. Raised by his single mother, a Jehovah's Witness, Phillip Perry (T.J. Lowther, in a heartbreakingly real performance) is fascinated by Haynes's roughneck ways, and the two form a surprisingly strong bond. Eastwood takes a supporting role as Red Garnett, the lawman who, ineptly but inevitably, is closing in on Haynes. With a woman criminologist (Laura Dern) and a trigger-happy federal agent along for the ride, Garnett chases Haynes down while keeping their shared past a secret from his team. Following WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART and UNFORGIVEN, A PERFECT WORLD shows Eastwood as a filmmaker at the absolute height of his creative powers. A PERFECT WORLD is one of his boldest works.

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  • UPC: 085391299028
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