At Close Range (1986) – Filmsack Show Notes

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This week on FilmSack, we find ourselves AT CLOSE RANGE of Christopher Walken’s small town made-man bad-dad stach and Live To Tell The Tale… and oh my gawd… is somebody sleeping with Madonna… cause that song is stuck to this movie like Sean Penn taking a free belly ride on the hood of your car because you owe his brother $5 bucks… get off ya weirdo… and onto this 1986 Crime/Drama now chewing on your wiper blades over on what used to be your favorite streaming service. You telling me this is based on a true story… LIAR! pew pew pew

Anywho, hello, yes is this Hemdale picture films… yes this is Kellog’s Corn Flakes calling… we would like to get a product placement in one of your movies. We heard you were making a “Family Film” and we wanted to get our wholesome flakes into a scene in tasteful context to show how people eat our flakes for breakfast to get a healthy start to the day and we would like to feature our signature logo with a happy rooster on the box in full view. You say you have the perfect scene in mind… right after a cockfight and just before a drug rape scene of a 16 year old. Perfect! Sign us up. I’m gonna get a raise… I can just feel it!

Randy, everybody in a small town chews gum… now stop staring at your step-mom’s LeLounge

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BRIEF

Based on a true story, At Close Range follows Brad Jr. (Sean Penn), a restless small-town teen who reconnects with his estranged father, Brad Sr. (Christopher Walken), only to discover he’s the ringleader of a gang of rural thieves and murderers. As Brad Jr. gets pulled deeper into the family business, loyalty, greed, and blood collide — in that special 1980s way where everyone looks like they just walked out of a John Cougar Mellencamp song.

1986 | Rated R | Crime/Drama | 1h 51m

LINKS

IMDB: At Close Range (1986)

Wikipedia: At Close Range Wiki

Rotten Tomatoes: RT Page

TVTropes: TV Tropes

WHERE TO WATCH

Streaming: [Check availability on JustWatch]

TRAILER/CLIPS

 

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SHOW NOTES

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• What does it spell? HEMDALE… H… E… M… D…. hemdale
• Hey, I know those 2 names.
• Wait… it’s that song…. but slowed down… 
• mmm… Candy Clark
• I was going to watch the whole movie and then found out there are Cliff Notes in the form of the Music Video “Live To Tell” By Madonna.
• Riding around town with Sean Penn credits.
• “Based on a True Story” aka… we took some liberties. Spring, 1978
• https://www.thennowmovielocations.com/2021/05/at-close-range.html
• Don’t tailgate that tractor in the middle of the square.
• Hey!!! It’s that lady with the 3 names I always get wrong. There’s no crying in a small town! Near the war memorial.
• Face acting… some of my favorite stuff… we don’t do that enough… find an actor with an interesting face and linger on “The look”
• He took my GD money… he bought himself a $5 dollar bottle of gin. 
• This kid’s an asshole… that’s my brother.
• Hey… that other kid is the kid from that Vampire movie… he meets a bad end.
• Give me the $5 dollars back… or a free hood ride around the town square… and I’m taking this wiper…  give me the $5 and the gin.
• I won’t fight ya… but I will out weird you.
• I didn’t do it for the $5… I did it for the ladies.
• Wait… Madonna did a Sean Pen movie… was this before or after their deal?
• Does he have a bag of tic-tacs or drugs? They make things stronger… whatever you feel makes you feel it stronger.
• I hate dry pill taking… drinks were hard to come by in 1978
• SR-5 the truck that feels like a sports car. Liars!
• Randy, you are always are trying to go out with them pretty women…. but all they got is… 
• I want to give your mom some money… what does she need… 100… 2…
• Hold old are you now? Old enough.
• Man… this town gives me vibes of my town growing up. I recognize all this shit.
• I was pretty excited about the Madonna song at first…. now I am thinking… will it ever stop!
• Hey, it’s the guy from In The Heat of the night?
• Randy, is that my beer you are drinking? Get a job. I’ll beat the Jesus out of you.
• Your mom, your grandma…and most importantly, I have to work in the morning. – Ernie
• Look here boyfriend of mom’s… you been here for 5 months… toss me out? I’ll smoke in the yard.
• Brad… your name is Brad too?
• I heard you was a thief. 
• Uncle Dicky… Uncle Patch… and some other uncles. and that is your step mother… that ain’t patch… that is Daryl.
• This is the family… now stop staring at your step-mom
• He got 2 kids… the youngest may be a bastard.
• “You don’t say nothing against the family”
• Everybody chews gum or tobacco. Some chew it really poorly.
• Uncle Daryl is a petty thief.
• LeLounge.. 
• Randy, you remind me of a guy in high school… he was a real doofus… casting aspersions from my LeLounge Float
• 100’s… 20s.
• You got 5500 on that car. I’ll give you $5000 cash… in 20s… that I stole last night.
• Get it… Laundry… They are laundering the money. Got to pay the Laundry tax… 300 dollars.
• I don’t like the radio.
• This movie should be called… “Chewing gum in a small town.”
• Hitching a ride with the Amish… I’d rather walk – Brad jr.
• I didn’t say I was 16… I said mom said until I was 17…
• 555-6239… 
• Linger… don’t go… linger.
• What the fuck is Step Mom cleaning.
• Randy, you ever steal a police car? How about a toothbrush? Maybe you should steal a toothbrush.
• Yeah… it’s legal… 
• Stay clear of my brother… 
• You make Mary Sue awfully skittish.
• Playing Monopoly with Little Penn.
• Randy got big eyes and courted me like a regular gentleman… and lots of Colt 45.
• Hey Brad…. You awake… There is a girl on the phone… muhaha
• ohhh… easy one… Sean Penn biting his toenails in bed.. gross scott.
• Let’s take a country ride (casing the country) with my legitimate and illegitimate son and take them out for some small town dinner shit… and show your kids your gun… you like it? You can’t have it… it’s mine. 
• I already gave you a car… you got something … between the legs…
• Get out of my face Lester. Lester is a rat.
• Lester is a problem… and we need to impress daddy.
• Them must be some quiet tractors.
• Sutherland!!
• I bought you a necklace with my tractor stealing business… Toyota!
• All fun and games till some farmer shoots you in the face with some birdshot.
• Daddy… can I come to your place… nope… you got a woman.
• So many bad choices start with fleeing for your 16 year old girlfriends home.
• Crispin Glover just wants a woman….. but he’ll take beating rocks. wait… is that code?
• We got 18 dollars to run away on.
• That place has class… Dolly Parton pinball.
• Come on… let my boy in… and his girlfriend who is obviously 23.
• He wants to join “The Family” just temporarily..
• Don’t ever let your pushy 16 year old girlfriend come in here and dictate the situation.
• Some people know some people. 
• Tractor stealing business.
• Once you are in… it is blood… you don’t break it.
• The uglier they are… the more they are worth.
• Dad stopping by to grab some Wacky Tabacky.
• Working 10 hours a day at the cannery. Car. Girl in your lap.
• How you gonna pay… apartment, food…
• All you know how to do is steal… you are too dumb to do anything else.
• I think you hurt daddy’s feelings.
• Tell me all about the better life… tell me a story so I can dream and be sad when it is ripped away.
• Why are we stealing from farms when we can steal straight from the man.
• Get a load of this man… I got to have her… the cutout tractor lady will be mine… I ain’t saying he was the reason they got caught… but he didn’t help
• Everybody made bail except Junior.
• Cock fighting. 
• Can I make a political donation.
• hehe… scene after cock fighting has Corn Flakes… with the cock on it… prominent… did Kellog’s know they would get product placement after a cockfight?
• I don’t talk against my family…
• Grandma is pissed…
• His weapon of choice… booze and drugs.
• pretty effective… rape his son’s girlfriend to get her to stay away.
• Sign this… what is it? Just sign it… ok.. Some gave your name to the grand jury.
• Empty field truck donut freak out.
• Let’s dig a hole to plant us some Crispin Glover…
• Poached a white deer… in these woods. 
• Got to kill off the second unit tractor theft ring team.
• What would you say in front of the grand jury… nothing… LIAR!
• Grandma been squirreling away some money…
• What you know about Lester.
• Naked tied to a tree… and give him a lollipop… shutup Daryl!
• Boyd… you got the soul of a stuck pig… soowweeee
• Family… am I right…
• Piece of poo car. Probably gonna die.
• Is the topless lady the same lady they were disagreeing about at the bar.
• Meanwhile… At home the ladies are watching Pepsi commercials and the boys are out at the stripper bar.
• Man… this is the slowest getaway ever… and now she is dead…
• I forgot to feed the dogs…
• Interesting… close up of bullet wounds and a weird montage of hose pipe squirt off.
• He got a hole in the back of his head?
• Is this the gun you used to kill Tommy… is this the gun you used on Terry? This is a family gun dad.
• I didn’t know nothing clearly.
• You got the guts to kill me… you gone crazy. Nope.
• My mind is simple dad.
• I gave you money, I gave you a car. I let you in. I got feelings for you… I love you.
• Pew pew pew… I love you too dad.
• Why you shoot all the bullets.
• No… I ain’t you… this is too easy. I want you to die everyday for the rest of your life.
• it finally caught up with him… he turned red…. like he was taking a big bloody poop.
• Brad. Little Brad. Brad Junior.
• He is my… crying… choking… my dad!

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INTRO

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Oh hi,

This week on FilmSack, we find ourselves AT CLOSE RANGE of Christopher Walken’s small town made-man bad-dad stach and Live To Tell The Tale… and oh my gawd… is somebody sleeping with Madonna… cause that song is stuck to this movie like Sean Penn taking a free belly ride on the hood of your car because you owe his brother $5 bucks… get off ya weirdo… and onto this 1986 Crime/Drama now chewing on your wiper blades over on what used to be your favorite streaming service. You telling me this is based on a true story… LIAR! pew pew pew

Anywho, hello, yes is this Hemdale picture films… yes this is Kellog’s Corn Flakes calling… we would like to get a product placement in one of your movies. We heard you were making a “Family Film” and we wanted to get our wholesome flakes into a scene in tasteful context to show how people eat our flakes for breakfast to get a healthy start to the day and we would like to feature our signature logo with a happy rooster on the box in full view. You say you have the perfect scene in mind… right after a cockfight and just before a drug rape scene of a 16 year old. Perfect! Sign us up. I’m gonna get a raise… I can just feel it!

Randy, everybody in a small town chews gum… now stop staring at your step-mom’s LeLounge

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BRIEF

Based on a true story, At Close Range follows Brad Jr. (Sean Penn), a restless small-town teen who reconnects with his estranged father, Brad Sr. (Christopher Walken), only to discover he’s the ringleader of a gang of rural thieves and murderers. As Brad Jr. gets pulled deeper into the family business, loyalty, greed, and blood collide — in that special 1980s way where everyone looks like they just walked out of a John Cougar Mellencamp song.

1986 | Rated R | Crime/Drama | 1h 51m

LINKS

IMDB: At Close Range (1986)

Wikipedia: At Close Range Wiki

Rotten Tomatoes: RT Page

TVTropes: TV Tropes

WHERE TO WATCH

Streaming: [Check availability on JustWatch]

TRAILER/CLIPS

 

Social Media Post

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At Close Range (1986) – Like Olive Garden, When you’re here, you’re family… until you tell the feds about the rats in the kitchen… LIAR! #CornFlakes

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SHOW NOTES

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• What does it spell? HEMDALE… H… E… M… D…. hemdale
• Hey, I know those 2 names.
• Wait… it’s that song…. but slowed down… 
• mmm… Candy Clark
• I was going to watch the whole movie and then found out there are Cliff Notes in the form of the Music Video “Live To Tell” By Madonna.
• Riding around town with Sean Penn credits.
• “Based on a True Story” aka… we took some liberties. Spring, 1978
• https://www.thennowmovielocations.com/2021/05/at-close-range.html
• Don’t tailgate that tractor in the middle of the square.
• Hey!!! It’s that lady with the 3 names I always get wrong. There’s no crying in a small town! Near the war memorial.
• Face acting… some of my favorite stuff… we don’t do that enough… find an actor with an interesting face and linger on “The look”
• He took my GD money… he bought himself a $5 dollar bottle of gin. 
• This kid’s an asshole… that’s my brother.
• Hey… that other kid is the kid from that Vampire movie… he meets a bad end.
• Give me the $5 dollars back… or a free hood ride around the town square… and I’m taking this wiper…  give me the $5 and the gin.
• I won’t fight ya… but I will out weird you.
• I didn’t do it for the $5… I did it for the ladies.
• Wait… Madonna did a Sean Pen movie… was this before or after their deal?
• Does he have a bag of tic-tacs or drugs? They make things stronger… whatever you feel makes you feel it stronger.
• I hate dry pill taking… drinks were hard to come by in 1978
• SR-5 the truck that feels like a sports car. Liars!
• Randy, you are always are trying to go out with them pretty women…. but all they got is… 
• I want to give your mom some money… what does she need… 100… 2…
• Hold old are you now? Old enough.
• Man… this town gives me vibes of my town growing up. I recognize all this shit.
• I was pretty excited about the Madonna song at first…. now I am thinking… will it ever stop!
• Hey, it’s the guy from In The Heat of the night?
• Randy, is that my beer you are drinking? Get a job. I’ll beat the Jesus out of you.
• Your mom, your grandma…and most importantly, I have to work in the morning. – Ernie
• Look here boyfriend of mom’s… you been here for 5 months… toss me out? I’ll smoke in the yard.
• Brad… your name is Brad too?
• I heard you was a thief. 
• Uncle Dicky… Uncle Patch… and some other uncles. and that is your step mother… that ain’t patch… that is Daryl.
• This is the family… now stop staring at your step-mom
• He got 2 kids… the youngest may be a bastard.
• “You don’t say nothing against the family”
• Everybody chews gum or tobacco. Some chew it really poorly.
• Uncle Daryl is a petty thief.
• LeLounge.. 
• Randy, you remind me of a guy in high school… he was a real doofus… casting aspersions from my LeLounge Float
• 100’s… 20s.
• You got 5500 on that car. I’ll give you $5000 cash… in 20s… that I stole last night.
• Get it… Laundry… They are laundering the money. Got to pay the Laundry tax… 300 dollars.
• I don’t like the radio.
• This movie should be called… “Chewing gum in a small town.”
• Hitching a ride with the Amish… I’d rather walk – Brad jr.
• I didn’t say I was 16… I said mom said until I was 17…
• 555-6239… 
• Linger… don’t go… linger.
• What the fuck is Step Mom cleaning.
• Randy, you ever steal a police car? How about a toothbrush? Maybe you should steal a toothbrush.
• Yeah… it’s legal… 
• Stay clear of my brother… 
• You make Mary Sue awfully skittish.
• Playing Monopoly with Little Penn.
• Randy got big eyes and courted me like a regular gentleman… and lots of Colt 45.
• Hey Brad…. You awake… There is a girl on the phone… muhaha
• ohhh… easy one… Sean Penn biting his toenails in bed.. gross scott.
• Let’s take a country ride (casing the country) with my legitimate and illegitimate son and take them out for some small town dinner shit… and show your kids your gun… you like it? You can’t have it… it’s mine. 
• I already gave you a car… you got something … between the legs…
• Get out of my face Lester. Lester is a rat.
• Lester is a problem… and we need to impress daddy.
• Them must be some quiet tractors.
• Sutherland!!
• I bought you a necklace with my tractor stealing business… Toyota!
• All fun and games till some farmer shoots you in the face with some birdshot.
• Daddy… can I come to your place… nope… you got a woman.
• So many bad choices start with fleeing for your 16 year old girlfriends home.
• Crispin Glover just wants a woman….. but he’ll take beating rocks. wait… is that code?
• We got 18 dollars to run away on.
• That place has class… Dolly Parton pinball.
• Come on… let my boy in… and his girlfriend who is obviously 23.
• He wants to join “The Family” just temporarily..
• Don’t ever let your pushy 16 year old girlfriend come in here and dictate the situation.
• Some people know some people. 
• Tractor stealing business.
• Once you are in… it is blood… you don’t break it.
• The uglier they are… the more they are worth.
• Dad stopping by to grab some Wacky Tabacky.
• Working 10 hours a day at the cannery. Car. Girl in your lap.
• How you gonna pay… apartment, food…
• All you know how to do is steal… you are too dumb to do anything else.
• I think you hurt daddy’s feelings.
• Tell me all about the better life… tell me a story so I can dream and be sad when it is ripped away.
• Why are we stealing from farms when we can steal straight from the man.
• Get a load of this man… I got to have her… the cutout tractor lady will be mine… I ain’t saying he was the reason they got caught… but he didn’t help
• Everybody made bail except Junior.
• Cock fighting. 
• Can I make a political donation.
• hehe… scene after cock fighting has Corn Flakes… with the cock on it… prominent… did Kellog’s know they would get product placement after a cockfight?
• I don’t talk against my family…
• Grandma is pissed…
• His weapon of choice… booze and drugs.
• pretty effective… rape his son’s girlfriend to get her to stay away.
• Sign this… what is it? Just sign it… ok.. Some gave your name to the grand jury.
• Empty field truck donut freak out.
• Let’s dig a hole to plant us some Crispin Glover…
• Poached a white deer… in these woods. 
• Got to kill off the second unit tractor theft ring team.
• What would you say in front of the grand jury… nothing… LIAR!
• Grandma been squirreling away some money…
• What you know about Lester.
• Naked tied to a tree… and give him a lollipop… shutup Daryl!
• Boyd… you got the soul of a stuck pig… soowweeee
• Family… am I right…
• Piece of poo car. Probably gonna die.
• Is the topless lady the same lady they were disagreeing about at the bar.
• Meanwhile… At home the ladies are watching Pepsi commercials and the boys are out at the stripper bar.
• Man… this is the slowest getaway ever… and now she is dead…
• I forgot to feed the dogs…
• Interesting… close up of bullet wounds and a weird montage of hose pipe squirt off.
• He got a hole in the back of his head?
• Is this the gun you used to kill Tommy… is this the gun you used on Terry? This is a family gun dad.
• I didn’t know nothing clearly.
• You got the guts to kill me… you gone crazy. Nope.
• My mind is simple dad.
• I gave you money, I gave you a car. I let you in. I got feelings for you… I love you.
• Pew pew pew… I love you too dad.
• Why you shoot all the bullets.
• No… I ain’t you… this is too easy. I want you to die everyday for the rest of your life.
• it finally caught up with him… he turned red…. like he was taking a big bloody poop.
• Brad. Little Brad. Brad Junior.
• He is my… crying… choking… my dad!

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