ManiakJiggy
This is How Movies Should Be Made
Claysaba
Excellent, Without a doubt!!
Kinley
This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
PlatinumJeweler
Many movies are typical story's we've all seen. That's what I was watching until one person came along and changed everything. The story now is in a place you have no idea where it's going or how it will end. The drug dealer is like no one you have seen before and given that this review is in 2015 and the film was 1985 his talent is now known for you can witness his beginnings. The film also has another star actor in his early work to look out for as he became an A rated star. If you're like me and like a low budget movie that goes way beyond it's limits, brings you actors making a name for themselves and no other film to compare it to you won't be disappointed.
Pepper Anne
I didn't enjoy this one much. Looks like they ran out of ideas for a story and towards the end, were just pulling at straws. If you read the synopsis on the box, it seems like a story where a social worker struggles with ethics in dealing with a young client that she starts to fall in love with.The way this movie starts out, with a young kid getting shuffled through adult prison after being an accessory to the shooting of a cop reminds me of the made-for-TV drama, In the Custody of Strangers (which is a similar story that criticizes the juvenile detention system). Enter the well-meaning social worker who tries to help him out, or at least make his stay comfortable (after a while, you'd forget this kid was in prison).Then, all of a sudden, this social worker turns sinister, and the story turns into a Bonnie and Clyde. She is such a bizarre character.Later, she attempts to break the kid out of jail after the judge decides that yes, the kid is going to get tried as an adult. Then, these two become fugitives working for the social worker's drug dealing friend. The whole movie is pretty ridiculous, and I suspect, is probably not enough to sustain too many people's attention since you're thrown one too many bizarre plot points.
batgirl731
I couldn't believe my professor assigned this movie for a class. Ugh.The production values are not too great, and the score is AWFUL!In general, it feels like a corny 80s sex fantasy drawn out for 90 minutes.But without a lot of sex.Some of the nature scenes are very pretty, and it's almost in the so-bad-it's-fun category.But not quite.Definitely not recommended, unless you're having a bad-obscure-80s movie film fest.And maybe not even then.
dg-7
HARD CHOICES begins with a young boy in a small town who dreams about flying planes. One day his brother and another guy take him on a joyride, which culminates in the murder of a store clerk in a botched robbery. That's the end of the kid. The kid is a victim of circumstance but not to the law who put him in a cell with the hard criminals.HARD CHOICES begins in almost documentary fashion. We observe the Tennessee backwoods where Bobby lives. Up until the crime the movie seems painfully routine - I guess that's the idea - and then the murder. The middle text of the movie is with Bobby in prison, and he's a hearbreaker. A female social worker(Margaret Klennck) comes to visit him. Bobby's attracted to her and she to him and then the unpredictable happens.HARD CHOICES, gritty and rough, contains moments of pure revelation. The sad course of Bobby's life and the shocking but touching affair with the woman whch is both senstive as it is hot and forbidden.. That's unpredictable enough but things escalate, the movie becomes a sombre thriller and anything's possible.I didn't recognize any of the actors in this movie, although John Sayles plays a kind hearted drug dealer with a crush on the woman. This movie come to think of it is full of hard choices and Rick King the director never makes the material predictable or soapy. In the end, all we can hope is for Bobby to have some kind of life., maybe flying a plane. This is a great film, the kind of film that cries out to be discovered on video and cable.DGSTAR STAR STAR STAR (out of four)
