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Title: After Dark, My Sweet (1990)
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Jason Patric | ... | Kevin 'kid' Collins | |
| Rocky Giordani | ... | Bert | |
| Rachel Ward | ... | Fay Anderson | |
| Bruce Dern | ... | Garrett "Uncle Bud" Stoker | |
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Tom Wagner | ... | Counterman |
| Mike Hagerty | ... | Truck Driver (as Michael G. Hagerty) | |
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James E. Bowen Jr. | ... | Second Driver |
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George Dickerson | ... | Doc Goldman |
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Napoleon Walls | ... | Boxing Referee |
| Corey Carrier | ... | Jack | |
| Jeanie Moore | ... | Nanny | |
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James Cotton | ... | Charlie |
| Burke Byrnes | ... | Cop | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Vincent Mazella Jr. | ... | Flashback Fighter (as Vince Mazzella Jr.) |
| Thomas Wagner | |||
An ex-boxer is drifting around after escaping from the mental hospital. He meets a widow who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her ex-husband left. Her Uncle talks them both into helping kidnap a rich boy for ransom money, and the ex-fighter must make decisions about his loyalties and what is right. Written by Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
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It's a shame that this wasn't very good because I really miss film noir and try my best to see as many of the newer Neo-Noirs as possible. The first thing I noticed about this movie was the poor lead performance from Jason Patric. He looks too scruffy to lead a film like this, and his general lack of enthusiasm doesn't do much to get the audience into the film. The rest of the film pretty much falls apart around him, as the characters aren't consistent and the plot isn't very well worked, and never becomes overly exciting. The acting is all rather downbeat and in trying to put in good performances, none of the cast really manage it. The plot follows a retired boxer who has escaped from a loony bin. He stops at a bar for a drink and soon meets a young widow named Fay. She lets him stay on a caravan on her land, and things start looking up for the ex-mental patient. However, things take a turn towards the wrong side of the law when Fay's uncle Bob turns up and convinces the pair to partake in a kidnapping that he's planning. This leaves the scruffy, lunatic, ex-boxing drifter in a sticky situation, as he to decide where his loyalties lie...
I haven't read the book by Jim Thompson upon which this film is based, and given my viewing of this film; I'm not going to bother. After Dark, My Sweet continually tries to instil the same feeling that made the classic noirs of the forties and fifties such a delight, but it always fails as the director has forgotten to give the audience any reason to care for the characters and their plights. Director James Foley also directed the very decent Glengarry Glen Ross, in which he managed to pull very strong performances out of his cast members, which suggests to me that he's a director who needs big stars in order to make his films work. The cinematography is good, but doesn't fit the tone of the film at all. This sort of film got its name for the black and white picture, so it's always going to be difficult to create a noir atmosphere with a crisp and clear colour picture. That being said, the film does look nice and the director captures the locations well. On the whole, I can't recommend this film because it doesn't do what it set out to; but anyone going into the movie expecting only a nineties thriller shouldn't be too disappointed.