Murder in the Heartland (1993)A wanna-be tough guy and his 14-year-old girlfriend go on a murder spree. Director:Robert MarkowitzWriter:Michael O'Hara |
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| Fairuza Balk | ... | ||
| Kate Reid | ... |
Pansy Street
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John McArthur
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Elmer Scheele
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Gus Meyer
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Marion Bartlett
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Jonette Fox
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Governor Anderson
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| Ryan Cutrona | ... |
C. Lauer Ward
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Clara Ward
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Jake Carpenter | ... |
Robert Jensen
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Carol King
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Don Bloomfield | ... | |
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John Hussey | ... |
Mr. Jensen
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A wanna-be tough guy and his 14-year-old girlfriend go on a murder spree.
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3 May 1993 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Starkweather: Murder in the Heartland See more »Company Credits
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Why anybody would want to retell the story of Charles Starkweather so many years after the events that made him notorious is beyond my comprehension.
Perhaps it was just meant to be a character study: Tim Roth dominates the entire show as a passionate, capricious, and utterly fascinating Starkweather.
The film disturbs me because I doubt that the real Starkweather was so interesting. Contemporary accounts suggest he was a sociopath unable to calibrate his responses to all those negative situations of life: envy, frustration, depression. The director has done a great job; the question is, why.
While this film is not well known compared with Pulp Fiction, even Rob Roy, Roth's performance is spellbinding - at least as good as his role in Reservoir Dogs.
It deserves to be seen, as a landmark of late 20th century, one of the really great performances by an actor, rather than a star turn by an overhyped PR product.