At Close Range


At Close Range is a 1986 crime drama film directed by James Foley, based on the real life rural Pennsylvania crime family led by Bruce Johnston, Sr. which operated during the 1960s and 1970s. It stars Sean Penn and Christopher Walken, with Mary Stuart Masterson, Seans brother Chris Penn, Crispin Glover, Kiefer Sutherland, and Eileen Ryan the Penns reallife mother in supporting roles.

Brad Whitewood, Sr. Christopher Walken is the leader of an organized crime family. One night, his estranged oldest son, Brad, Jr. Sean Penn, contacts him after a fight with his mothers boyfriend and stays with him at his home in Hulmeville, Pennsylvania. Eventually, he becomes involved with his fathers criminal activities, and starts a gang with his halfbrother, Tommy Chris Penn. The boys attempt a daring heist, which results in their arrest. All of them are bailed out except Brad, Jr.During Brad, Jr.s time in jail another member of the gang receives a grand jury subpoena. Brad, Sr. believes that they will inform on him, so he rapes Brads girlfriend, Terry Masterson, as a warning. Brad, Sr. feels his only recourse is to eliminate every witness that can connect him with his sons and their gang. He kills Tommy himself and orders a hit against Brad, Jr., who is seriously wounded, Terry is killed. Brad, Jr. threatens his father with a gun, but decides that he wants Brad, Sr. to die every day for the rest of his life, and instead testifies against him in court. ........

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