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9 May 1997 (USA) moreTagline:
Sometimes revenge is the best therapy.Plot:
After spending seven years behind bars, Johnny Crown is back on the street, with lots of cash, a psychotherapy... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Denis Leary | ... | Johnny Crown / Johnny Alt | |
| Joe Mantegna | ... | Frank Gavilan / Frank Cassady / Richard Essex | |
| Annabella Sciorra | ... | Dr. Leah | |
| Larry Bishop | ... | Ned Lynch | |
| Abe Vigoda | ... | Will Cassady | |
| Robert Costanzo | ... | Stan | |
| Traci Lords | ... | Anna | |
| Jimmie F. Skaggs | ... | Smilin' Phil Fox / Todd Streeb | |
| James Tolkan | ... | Dan 'Iceberg' Eagan | |
| Heidi Schanz | ... | Joyce Alt / Simone | |
| Cristi Conaway | ... | Julianne | |
| Angela Jones | ... | Janette | |
| Michael David Simms | ... | Mitch Reed | |
| Amy Moon | ... | Ava | |
| Marc Baur | ... | Leo |
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Rated R for pervasive strong language and violence, and for sexuality.Parents Guide:
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Iceland:16 | Netherlands:16 | New Zealand:R18 | Argentina:13 | UK:18 (video premiere) | USA:RFilming Locations:
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This film is really the close cousin of another film called "Trigger Happy" with Richard Dreyfuss, anyway, this film is set in the same Other Universe, one where there are no police and no rules. Johnny Crown (Leary) is out to get the people who turned his father into a vegatable and all hands point to the mysterious Frank Gavilan.
Some have said that this is a Tarantino or John Woo wannabe, no way! The writing by Larry Bishop is frequently hilarious (he also wrote Trigger Happy), he keeps the action moving, from Leary's endless one-liners to the idea that the man who put a bullet in his fathers head might be just too close to home.
Cool moments in the film include Ned (who killed Ed) going back to his roots, this means getting rid of everything, including money, jewels, car and Traci Lords, the hitmen shooting up the bar for something to do and that sandwich!
It came out in the wake of Pulp Fiction, but other crime movies came out then too, good ones at that: Trigger Happy, City Of Industry, Albino Alligator etc.
Underworld might be obscure, I own the video, but I'll never trade it in until I get the DVD (unavailable in the UK), that's how good this film is. Absolute gem. 10/10