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Release Date: 01 May, 2001 Retail Price: $14.95 OUR Price: $13.46 You SAVE: $1.49! Cast: Complete Cast (6 total) |
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Four locomotives in tandem at 90 miles per
Some improbable plot moments cannot detract from a terrific movie made great by the two central characters - Jon Voight and four locomotive engines in tandem on the run and disappearing into an endless void of white non-existence. Also one of the great monologues about existential life and advice to the young convict by old timer Manny(Voight)- to get a job cleaning toilets and doing it well for the man is better than all the dreams about Copacabana, Las Vegas and making it BIG. In my reckoning, a masterpiece out of that blighted decade of greed, Reagan, Thatcher and all the rest of those sick poseurs. Don't miss it, then rerun it every now and then and ponder.
In The Belly Of The Beast
Suspenseful, thought-provoking action film. Stellar performances delivered by one and all (even the minor players were up for this one). The driving force of the movie is the personal animosity between hard-core convict Oscar "Manny" Manheim (Jon Voigt) and the prison warden Ranken (John P. Ryan).
After spending three years welded in his windowless cell, mulitple murderer "Manny" Manheim is returned to the general population on a "human rights" appeal by his lawyers. The rancor between Ranken and Manheim is the focus of the first part of the movie with Ranken attempting to kill Manny, and threatening to send Manny out of the prison "in plastic".
The movie finally gets moving when Manny, aided and unwelcomely accompanied by Buck (Eric Roberts) escapes through the prison sewer. After trudging through an Alaskan blizzard, Manny and Buck hop on a train of four deisel engines. As the train is leaving the station the engineer suffers a massive heart attack and accidentally whacks the throttle wide open before falling off the train, and the fun begins!
Ranken is flying high as his obsession with Manny leads him over the edge and into a final confrontation with his nemesis. The warden ironically becomes a prisoner of his own obsession.
The train itself is transformed into some unstoppable, mythic beast bent on destroying everything in its path, and in its belly.
Rebecca DeMornay (who proves she can actually act!) has a decidedly unglamourous role as a railyard worker (Sara) trapped on the train with Manny and Buck after falling asleep in one of the engines.
Buck gets a lesson in life and a lesson in living from Manny.
Manny is forced by Sara to look inside himself and decides he doesn't like what he sees. After being "at war with the world and everyone in it" he finally makes peace with himself and realizes there is only one way he can ever really be free; only one way he can ever be the master of his own fate.
The three runaway trains finally converge to a shared doom at the climax of the movie.
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