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12/06/05
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American Gun (2002)
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Reviews Counted:22
Fresh:9
Rotten:13
Average Rating:5.6/10
Runtime: 89 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Penny Tillman (Virginia Madsen) travels home to Vermont to spend the holidays with her parents, Martin (James Coburn) and Anne (Barbara Bain). Their warm reunion is cut tragically short when a... [More]
Starring: James Coburn, Virginia Madsen, Barbara Bain, Alexandra Holden
Director: Alan Jacobs
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04/01/06
There isn't a false moment on screen for Coburn, who can do no wrong.
10/28/03
Getting a lot of quality cinema out of a tight budget, Jacobs (Just One Night) takes some risks in the storytelling department that result in a film that encourages one to think long and hard about the subject of guns.
09/26/02
Top CriticRight up until [the] fatal last reel, American Gun is a mostly engaging and intriguing character study of an expectedly determined man.
02/18/04
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10/28/03
Martin internalizes everything, and Coburn must communicate only through pained looks. It's a tremendous performance.
11/06/03
Gives the gun control debate a real shot in the arm (no pun intended). Whether it succeeds or fails as a story is largely irrelevant - it at least tries to be great.
03/08/04
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04/08/06
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03/25/06
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03/24/06
Coburn is the whole show. Disregard the melodrama, and take it instead as a tone poem documenting the final, wintery ride of an irreplaceably magnificent bastard.
01/21/05
Tries to do way too much, what with its anti-gun message, its warm family drama, its pointless flashbacks to World War II, its real-meaning- of-Christmas and, worst of all, its fake-out structure.
11/07/03
nothing special
02/10/04
Its intentions are good, at least if you share the film’s wariness of guns, but the execution so earnest as to be joyless.
07/21/04
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10/30/06
Contrived, pedantic and ultimately a tedious bore.
06/23/04
Anyone who has seen In the Bedroom will feel a sense of déjà vu during American Gun, and the latter will not be well-served by the inevitable comparisons.
10/28/03
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03/25/06
Top Critic[It's] what happens when a director makes a movie based on what he imagines to be true, instead of what's actually so.
03/23/06
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