Quiet Cool

1986

Quiet Cool

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Movie Info

This actioner is set in a remote, heavily forested area in Northern California where marijuana growers raise their illegal crops and run whole communities with their terrorist tactics and wealth. The tale centers on the efforts of a fearless New York cop to free one such community from the tyranny of the pot growers. It begins with a surveyor who is leading the town's crooked sheriff to a small marijuana field he has just discovered. The surveyor is killed before he can get there. Joshua, a small boy, sees the execution and tries to get back in time to tell his parents. Unfortunately, the killers murder his family and throw him off a cliff. The boy's aunt, worried at not hearing from her family, gets suspicious and asks an old flame, NY cop Joe Dillon, to investigate. The town sheriff is not pleased by his intrusion and warns him to stay out of it. Dillon disobeys, and that is where all the action comes in.

Rating:

R
Genre:

Action & Adventure, Drama
Directed By:

Clay Borris
Written By:

Clay Borris, Susan Vercellino
In Theaters:

Nov 8, 1986 wide
On Disc/Streaming:

Sep 19, 2006
Runtime:

80 minutes
Studio:

New Line Cinema

Cast

James Remar
as Joe Dylanne

Adam Coleman Howard
as Joshua Greer

Daphne Ashbrook
as Katy Greer

Jared Martin
as Mike Prior

Nick Cassavetes
as Valence

Fran Ryan
as Ma

Critic Reviews for Quiet Cool

All Critics (3) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (2)

A nasty formula action film about a drug smuggling scheme in the Pacific Northwest.

Feb 12, 2015 | Rating: B- | Full Review…

Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
For all its woefully generic trappings, outlandishly ineffectual music, and cardboard-flavored dialogue, Quiet Cool does offer an appreciable amount of mayhem for your rental dollar.

Nov 10, 2006 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…

Scott Weinberg
DVDTalk.com
A formulaic '80s action cheapie full of bad acting, trite dialogue and by-the-numbers action.

Sep 2, 2006 | Rating: 3/10

Chuck O'Leary
FulvueDrive-in.com

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Audience Reviews for Quiet Cool

Jul 23, 2008

Under rated 80's action film.

Anthony V Super Reviewer
Jan 26, 2008

James Remar! This movie's title fits it perfectly. I remember seeing Remar do outstanding work in Walter Hill's films, Drugstore Cowboy and Tales From the Darkside: The Movie, and being saddened that he seemed to disappear from films for a while. Thank God though for Cable TV, I've been watching him in Dexter and boy the man can act. Why is it that HBO and Showtime are making more interesting, deep and artistic TV shows than Hollywood can make movies? Well, if you want to see James Remar, Powers Boothe or any other cool character actors of the past, it seems cable TV now has the best actors as well.... oh yeah, the movie! It's a heck a lot of fun and blah, blah, blah. If you dig tough guy action films, you'll probably dig this one. Yaaay James Remar.

Christopher B Super Reviewer