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Actors: James Coburn, Barbara Bain, Virginia Madsen, Alexandra Holden, Ryan Locke
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about American Gun |
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Older Vermont resident Martin Tillman (Coburn) and wife Anne (Bain) are happy to see their grown daughter Penny (Madsen) show up for the holidays, although her daughter has blamed her for the breakup of her marriage and has run away. Tragically, Penny dies in a shooting, and Martin becomes obsessed with tracking down the last owner of the .357 Magnum that killed her. He gets time off his factory floor manager job and follows the trail of the gun from the manufacturer to the gun shop and across the country through the hands of a number of its owners who used it since 1983 when it was made and Penny graduated from high school. We glimpse several incidents in which the gun was fired, but we also see flashbacks of the Second World War when Martin saw service in Europe and watched one of his buddies get killed, perhaps due to Martin's hesitation. Writer-director Alan Jacobs created this 2002 film after several romantic movies, and although the story is a little overly tricky and loose on motivation, the tremendous acting of Coburn in the last film before he died makes it very worthwhile.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Crime & Scandal
Yes
Vigilante/Revenge?
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- long lived adults
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- white
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) muscular
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn curly
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
- Northeast
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Germany
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
- Los Angeles
- Las Vegas
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
- moving train
- fort/military installation
- bar
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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