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DVD Release Date
• R1: Aug 12, 2003
Budget $130,000
MPAA Rating
Rated R for violent content. (previously rated GP and R)
Running Time
1 hour, 30 minutes
Country USA
Studio Paramount, Saticoy Productions
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Other Titles
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• Before I Die (1968)
• Bewegliche Ziele (1968)
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Genre: Thriller, Murder, Psychos, Serial Killer, Society, Cult Classic, Spy, Suspense, Disturbing, Investigation
Tagline: "I just killed my wife and my mother. I know they'll get me. But before that, many more will die..."
Plot: The message of Peter Bogdanovich's suspenseful directorial debut still rings true for post-1970s America, regardless of the decade. Tim O'Kelly plays Bobby Thompson, a seemingly mild-mannered husband and son. But Bobby has a penchant for collecting firearms and thinking murderous thoughts, which translate into action when he becomes a deadly sniper, picking off drivers on the L.A. freeway from high above an oil tank. Meanwhile, Byron Orlok (Boris Karloff), an aging horror film star, plans his retirement, feeling the atrocities wrought by daily human global existence have numbed the public to the movie monsters he plays. As fate and movies will have it, Thompson and Orlok's worlds collide at the Reseda Drive-In, where Orlok is making his final public appearance. Writer-director Bogdanovich, helming his debut feature, also appears as young Hollywood screenwriter and director Sammy Michaels. A powerful and chilling study of unexplained, unexpected violence, the film relays a message that continues to be contemporary to the American psycho-social landscape.
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 | Polly Platt
Pretty Baby, Say Anything..., The War of the Roses |
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| Cast |
Boris Karloff
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein |
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| Tim O'Kelly
Hawaii Five-O: Cocoon, Schoolgirls in Chains | Arthur Peterson
At Long Last Love, The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid, The Spell | Monte Landis
Young Frankenstein, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Body Double | | Daniel Ades
Real Genius, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, The Missouri Breaks | |
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