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State Of Grace
1990
Terry Noonan returns to New York's Hell Kitchen after twelve years to find that his old neighbourhood of seedy bars and Irish-American mobsters has been taken over by Yuppies hell-bent on gentrification. Terry's childhood buddies, ruthless gang leader Frankie Flannery and his psychotic brother Jackie, are determined to keep the .. Read more
| Starring | Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, Robin Wright |
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| Director | Phil Joanou |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
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State Of Grace
Terry Noonan returns to New York's Hell Kitchen after twelve years to find that his old neighbourhood of seedy bars and Irish-American mobsters has been taken over by Yuppies hell-bent on gentrification. Terry's childhood buddies, ruthless gang leader Frankie Flannery and his psychotic brother Jackie, are determined to keep the neighbourhood's tradition of organised -- and extremely violent -- crime alive. Terry joins Frankie's gang and gets back together with his former love, Frankie's sister Kathleen. But as the cops crack down on the Flannery crime ring, it becomes clear that Terry's loyalties are dangerously divided.
| Starring | Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, Robin Wright, John Turturro |
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| Director | Phil Joanou |
| Studio | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 8 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English, German |
| Released | DVD: 23 Jun 2003 Production year: 1990 |
| Format | DVD |
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Set in New York's Irish quarter, this glowering thriller makes so many blatant bids to be bracketed with the Mob movies of Martin Scorsese that it could justifiably be nicknamed O'GoodFellas. While not up to the Scorsese standard, this is still a cracking crime movie, with gutsy performances from Sean Penn (a worthy heir to De Niro and Pacino), the under-rated Ed Harris and that master of manic malevolence, Britain's own Gary Oldman. Female lead Robin Wright gets slightly lost in the mêlée and director Phil Joanou might have kept the running time down, but it's violent, vibrant and very impressive.
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While not in the same class as GoodFellas, this saga about Irish-American hoods in Hell's Kitchen during the 1970s is... read more on Time Out
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10 out of 10 people found this review helpful
A Treat for Gangster Fans!
As gangster films go this is an underrated classic! For a start, there's the cast: Sean Penn, Ed Harris and Gary Oldman (in what is arguably one of his best roles). The plot may sound a little cliched - undercover cop sent to infiltrate old gangster friends - but everything about this film is slick, suspensful and sexy! Occasionally shockingly violent with a sweeping, haunting score (particularly in the final sequence) by Ennio Morricone this film has plenty to recommend it.
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Sean Penn is top ten
Sean Penn is amazing in this film - definitely an under-rated actor as I think he is the best actor of his generation. Maybe this is where he met his wife (Robin Wright) on this movie as the electricity between them is palpable. Also great performances from Gary Oldman doing his stock in trade madman and Ed Harris as the head of a crime family. I believe this is also the first movie by director Phil Jonnau who up until then had been making videos - ie., U2.
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