Freddy Gale is a seedy jeweller who has sworn to kill the drunk driver who killed his little girl.Freddy Gale is a seedy jeweller who has sworn to kill the drunk driver who killed his little girl.Freddy Gale is a seedy jeweller who has sworn to kill the drunk driver who killed his little girl.
- Awards
- 4 nominations
Richard C. Sarafian
- Sunny Ventura
- (as Richard Sarafian)
Edward L. Katz
- Eddie
- (as Dr. Edward L. Katz)
- Director
- Writer
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Storyline
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- TriviaAccording to editor Jay Cassidy, Sean Penn allowed Jack Nicholson to make editing choices for two weeks without Penn's involvement, trusting Nicholson's eye for filmmaking, being a director himself.
- GoofsWhen Freddy gives John Booth three more days he marks it on the calendar in red and the square he draws is not even, later when he crosses the day in the calendar the square drawn is perfect.
- Quotes
Freddy Gale: Now you pity me. You pity me. You know, this is funny...
Mary: Whatever you are doing Freddy, stop it.
Freddy Gale: "Whatever you are doing Freddy, stop it". I hope you die. I hope you FUCKING die.
- Crazy creditsClyde is Hungry Watchdog - Dr Edward Katz
Featured review
Not very effective at all.
Sean Penn directs Jack Nicholson in this story of a man who swears to avenge his daughter's death by killing the drunk driver who struck her.
The movie opens up with Nicholson's character being a sleazy guy in a strip club and instantly we don't care very much about him, because he treats everyone like crap and doesn't really seem to have much depth. I'm all for unlikeable characters, but not when they're totally unredeemable and of no interest to the audience.
The rest of the plot seems very back-and-forth..."I'm going to kill him!" "Wait, I can't kill him." "I'm going to kill him!" "But I shouldn't kill him." When he finally makes up his mind the movie has already lost a lot of its momentum and derails way too early.
The movie opens up with Nicholson's character being a sleazy guy in a strip club and instantly we don't care very much about him, because he treats everyone like crap and doesn't really seem to have much depth. I'm all for unlikeable characters, but not when they're totally unredeemable and of no interest to the audience.
The rest of the plot seems very back-and-forth..."I'm going to kill him!" "Wait, I can't kill him." "I'm going to kill him!" "But I shouldn't kill him." When he finally makes up his mind the movie has already lost a lot of its momentum and derails way too early.
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Box office
- Budget
- $9,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $868,979
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $71,804
- Nov 19, 1995
- Gross worldwide
- $868,979
- Runtime1 hour 51 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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