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Andrew Wyeth painted landscapes of this bucolic stretch of Pennsylvania, but could he ever have imagined these small, warped figures inhabiting them? Brad Whitewood Sr. (Christopher Walken) runs a scuzzy gang that makes millions breaking into company safes and hijacking tractors. His estranged wife and her mother slouch around their dreary house staring at TV. Brad Jr. (Sean Penn) is searching for something worth spending his teenage energy on: maybe his lay-about friends, maybe that cute 16-year-old he's just met (Mary Stuart Masterson), maybe the toxic dream of emulating...
Most movies about low-life Americana condescend to their subject with lots of sweat, foul patter, fat ladies and idiot giggling. This lurid and intermittently seductive melodrama (based on a true story) just observes Brad Sr. and his mob dispassionately, like slime mold under a microscope. They execute their robberies, and their victims, with soulless professionalism; their gangster grimaces register starkness without sexiness. Brad Jr. and his pals are hardly more exemplary. Talking tough, swigging beer, waiting for something bad to happen, they could be the Whitewood Gang in embryo...
...Director James Foley (Reckless) wants to iconize the whole pathetic crowd with his wide-screen technique. The telephoto lens sets small-town streets ashiver; dramatic lighting illuminates a face from no earthly source. The two Brads share an idyllic toke of "wacky tobaccy," gazing out at the rolling Appalachian farmland. Brad Sr. sits at the center of a Last Supper tableau of thieves, looking like Jesus looking for Judas. Every overwrought gesture, every pregnant banality, every brutal killing is elongated to impress upon us the moment's importance and sick beauty. This fetishized attention to detail produces some gorgeous picturemaking...
...NOTEBOOK: The Crimson's next game is at Holy Cross Saturday...Vita finished with eight saves...Harvard got two goals from Brad Raymond, Rob Hurlbut, Chris Pujols and Clark, and one goal from Corcoran...
...NOTEBOOK: The Crimson's next game is Wednesday against the University of Massachusetts in Amherst...Vita finished with 13 saves, Wright recorded five...Corcoran, Pujols and freshman attack Brad Raymond led the Crimson in scoring with two goals each...Pujols was the assist leader with two...Princeton's only win this year came against Yale, 9-8, in overtime...Harvard owns a 5-1 record at Ohiri Field this year...Harvard is now 5-0 in games in which the opponent has scored less than 10 goals....Pujols leads the Crimson in scoring with 18 goals and 11 assists...Corcoran...