Ended on 8/14/2008
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RED -
(unrated)
2008 - USA - English - 93 minutes - Magnolia Pictures
Directed by: Lucky McKee, Trygve Allister Diesen
Featuring: Brian Cox, Tom Sizemore, Kim Dickens, Amanda Plummer, Robert Englund
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 Avery Allan Ludlow (Brian Cox), a Korean War vet with a tragic past, lives alone in a small town, where he runs the local hardware store. Av’s only companion is a 14 year-old ginger-haired dog, aptly named Red by Av’s late wife. One day, Av and Red are enjoying a placid outing at their favorite fishing spot when three boys and a shotgun come along. In an instant, Av’s lifelong friend is gone, the victim of a cruel, senseless act.
Devastated, Av determines to find out who the boys are and why they did it. Helped by a local reporter (Dickens), Av tries to expose the truth, but his efforts are ignored by authorities and mocked by the teenagers. The boys’ parents, a rich local businessman (Sizemore) and, across town, a hardscrabble laborer (Englund) and his wife (Plummer), are just as determined to keep Av down. But, faithful to the memory of his best friend, Av single-mindedly presses for justice—with or without the law on his side.
"RED serves as a throwback to the no-gloss psychological tack of WALKING TALL and other '70s exploitation classics...Demonstrates real elegance...allowing the characters' emotions to come to a slow boil. As far as creative integrity goes, it's hard to do better than building a project around an actor of Cox's caliber."
--Peter Debruge, Variety
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