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A PERFECT WORLD (1993) |
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MORGAN'S RATING |
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| Kevin Costner plays Butch Haynes, an escaped convict whose tendancy 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 is fascinated by Haynes' roughneck ways, and the two for ma surprisingly strong bond. Closing in on them is lawman Red Garnett, a woman criminologist and a trigger-happy federal agent along for the ride. |
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| Kevin Costner (Robert 'Butch' Haynes), Clint Eastwood (Chief Red Garnett), Laura Dern (Sally Gerber), T.J Lowther (Phillip Perry/Buzz), Keith Szarabajka (Terry James Pugh), Leo Burmester (Tom Adler), Paul Hewitt (Dick Suttle), Bradley Whitford (Bobby Lee), Ray McKinnon (Bradley), Jennifer Griffin (Gladys Perry), Leslie Flowers (Naomi Perry), Belinda Flowers (Ruth Perry), Darryl Cox (Mr. Hughes), Jay Whiteaker (Superman), Taylor Suzanne McBride (Tinkerbell), Christopher Reagan Ammons (Dancing Skeleton), Mark Voges (Larry Billings), Vernon Grote (Prison Guard), James Jeter (Oldtimer), Ed Geldart (Fred Cummings), Bruce McGill (Paul Saunders), Nik Hagler (General Store Manager), Gary Moody (Local Sheriff), George Haynes (Farmer), Marietta Marich (Farmer's Wife), Rodger Boyce (Mr. Willits), Lucy Lee Flippin (Lucy), Elizabeth Ruscio (Paula), David Kroll (Newscaster), Gabriel Folse, Gil Glasgow (Officers), Dennis Letts (Governor), John Hussey (Governor's Aide), Margaret Bowman (Trick 'r Treat Lady), John M. Jackson (Bob Fielder), Connie Cooper (Bob's Wife), Cameron Finley (Bob Fielder Jr.), Katy Wottrich (Patsy Fielder). |
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FACTS |
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PRODUCTION INFORMATION |
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RELEASE DATE: November 24th, 1993 (USA)
BOX OFFICE OPENING: $8.0 million (USA)
BOX OFFICE RESULT: $31.1 million (USA)
WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: $135.2 million
- Director Clint Eastwood originally intended to give the role of Butch to Denzel Washington.
- Eastwood was not originally going to act in the movie -- Costner talked him in to it.
- Butch (Kevin Costner) and Philip visit a Friendly Dept. Store, outside of which there is a poster advertising Bull Durham cigarettes. Costner starred in Bull Durham (1988).
- Steven Spielberg considered directing.
- While Eastwood got a great performance from Kevin Costner, their working relationship was not always friendly. At one point, Eastwood has said, Costner walked off the set, and Eastwood threatened to shoot the rest of the film with his stand-in.
- Eastwood co-wrote the song "Big Fran's Baby," which is featured on the soundtrack.
- The film made slightly more than $30 million at the U.S. box office but raked in more than $100 million worldwide. |
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DIRECTOR: Clint Eastwood (Firefox).
WRITER: John Lee Hancock.
PRODUCERS: Clint Eastwood, Mark Johnson and David Valdes.
ORIGINAL MUSIC: Lennie Niehaus.
DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros. |
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QUOTES |
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Butch Haynes: Me and you got a lot in common, Phillip. Both of us is handsome devils, we both like RC Cola, and neither one of us got a old man worth a damn. |
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Sally Gerber: You know you did everything you could, don't you?
Red Garnett: I don't know nothin'. Not one damn thing. |
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CRITICAL COMMENTS |
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"Never once feels like more than push-button artifice." -- Scott Weinberg, Apollo Guide |
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"It's not a perfect movie -- there's a bit more formula here than there ought to be -- but it's closer than you might think." -- Marc Savlov, Austin Chronicle |
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"This is a movie that surprises you." -- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times |
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