Perfect World

UPC: 883929126682

Studio: Warner Home Video

MPAA Rating: PG13   Contains:[Violence, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Profanity]

Summary: Clint Eastwood, hot off of his Academy Award win for Unforgiven, directed this small character study, appearing in the guise of a cops-and-robbers action picture. The film takes place during the fall of 1963. Eight-year old Phillip Perry (T.J. Lowther), the son of a devout Jehovah's Witness mother, is staying home while all the other children are out trick-or-treating. But then prison escapee Butch Haynes (Kevin Costner) appears in his kitchen. Needing a hostage to aid him in his escape from jail, he grabs Phillip. Phillip curiously looks up to Butch and willingly accompanies him. Butch gets rid of his fellow escapee after he tries to molest the child, and Butch and Phillip take to the Texas highway, on the run from the cops. The cop in pursuit in this instance is Police Chief Red Garnett (Clint Eastwood), riding in his sleek Populux Airglide trailer -- his "mobile command headquarters." On the road with Garnett is Sally Gerber (Laura Dern), a pushy pre-feminist criminologist, along with a creepy federal agent who is an expert sharpshooter. Butch is not particularly anxious to make it to the Texas borderline, and neither is Garnett in any particular hurry to catch Butch. As Butch and Phillip form a father-son attachment, the paths of Butch and Garnett gradually come together, in time for a final confrontation, after which Garnett confesses, "I don't know nothing. I don't know a damn thing." ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

Category: Crime

Features: cc

Perfect World

Format: DVD

Release Date: 06/01/2010

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DDS2.0 Dolby Digital w/ 4 channels

Runtime: 138 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Perfect World
1. Sky Above [1:31]
2. No Part of Halloween [1:11]
3. Huntsville Breakout [4:33]
4. Terror Before Dawn [6:27]
5. Govenor's Assignee [3:25]
6. Caravan Departs [2:42]
7. Threats and Facts [2:41]
8. At Gunpoint [7:00]
9. Pair of Intelligent People [4:25]
10. Time Machine [3:15]
11. Partners in Theft [5:22]
12. Guys on Our Own [1:38]
13. Gallow Humor [1:36]
14. Friendliest Store in Texas [7:33]
15. Good Size [2:10]
16. A Haynes History [2:57]
17. On-and-Off-Road Passersby [4:40]
18. Last of the Wild Frontiers [2:07]
19. Trick or Treat [3:01]
20. Putting the Breaks On [7:46]
21. Meat and Potatoes [:40]
22. His God-Give Right [1:28]
23. Bobby Lee Makes a Move [1:38]
24. Dottie's Squat 'N' Gobble [4:18]
25. Same Difference Wish List [4:03]
26. Right Thing to Do [3:10]
27. Mack's Invitation [1:46]
28. Dancing All Around [4:42]
29. Butch's Breaking Point [3:02]
30. Say Love and Mean It [1:46]
31. Prayer For the Dying [3:43]
32. Reluctant Gunshot [2:41]
33. Talking Man to Man [4:28]
34. "I'm Glad it Was You" [5:01]
35. Today's the Day [3:48]
36. Goodbye to a Ghost [1:34]
37. Hand in Hand [2:54]
38. "Do I Know You?" [:53]
39. Dead Aim [2:43]
40. He Didn't Say When [:31]
41. "I Don't Know Nothin'" [1:43]
42. End Credits [5:16]

Josh Ralske

Clint Eastwood followed up his Oscar-winning, critically acclaimed Unforgiven, the Western to end all Westerns, with another impressive, but grossly underappreciated work, A Perfect World. The film is portentously set in Texas in 1963, and it offers a compelling examination of the nature of American violence. Some Eastwood fans were probably put off by the fact that it's Kevin Costner who plays the traditional Eastwood part, the outlaw with a code of honor, while the man himself is relegated to playing, very effectively, the inept authority figure. In fact, by directing White Hunter, Black Heart, Unforgiven, and this film in succession, Eastwood demonstrated his willingness to critique his own status as an American icon, to an extent that few actors in such a position ever had. These films feature some of his best work as an actor, and there's not an unconditionally heroic figure in any of them. A Perfect World is probably the most moving of the three films, with the wonderful complexity of Kevin Costner's performance as the well-meaning but emotionally combustible Butch Haynes, playing off a touchingly naturalistic performance by child-actor T.J. Lowther as his entranced hostage, Phillip Perry. The film compellingly contrasts the uncontrollable violence of Haynes -- which arises from his own history of abuse and from his passionate beliefs -- with the calculated, state-sanctioned violence of the FBI sharpshooter, Bobby Lee (Bradley Whitford), whose cold competence in the name of ideology tellingly alludes to the contemporaneous assassination of President John F. Kennedy. With its well-drawn characters, its action and humor, and its moral complexity, A Perfect World is one of Eastwood's strongest films, as both an actor and a director. ~ Josh Ralske, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Connie Cooper  Actor 
James W. Gavin  Actor 
Craig Hosking  Actor 
Darryl Cox  Actor 
Gil Glasgow  Actor 
John M. Jackson  Actor 
Elizabeth Ruscio  Actor 
Gary Moody  Actor 
Mary Alice  Actor 
Nik Hagler  Actor 
Dennis Letts  Actor 
Cameron Finley  Actor 
Rodger Boyce  Actor 
Gabriel Folse  Actor 
George Haynes  Actor 
Marietta Marich  Actor 
Woody Watson  Actor 
Kevin Jamal Woods  Actor 
Margaret Bowman  Actor 
Lucy Lee Flippin  Actor 
Mark Voges  Actor 
Tony Frank  Actor 
Bruce McGill  Actor 
Ed Geldart  Actor 
John Hussey  Actor 
Marco Perella  Actor 
George Orrison  Actor 
Vernon Grote  Actor 
James Jeter  Actor 
Brandon Smith  Actor 
Phyllis Huffman  Actor 
Clint Eastwood  Director 
Clint Eastwood  Composer (Music Score) 
Clint Eastwood  Producer 
Mark Johnson  Producer 
Lennie Niehaus  Composer (Music Score) 
David Valdes  Producer 
John Lee Hancock  Screenwriter 
Kevin Costner  Actor 
Clint Eastwood  Actor 
Laura Dern  Actor 
T.J. Lowther  Actor 
Keith Szarabajka  Actor 
Leo Burmeister  Actor 
Paul Hewitt  Actor 
Bradley Whitford  Actor 
Ray McKinnon  Actor 
Jennifer Griffin  Actor 
Wayne de Hart  Actor 
Linda Hart  Actor 

Country: USA