It was considered one of Clint Eastwood’s most successful films as a director, one of Kevin Costner’s (Yellowstone) best performances as an actor, made good money at the international box office and was praised by the press. And yet Perfect World (1993) has been forgotten over the last 30 years.
But you can refresh your film memory this evening when the German-French cultural channel arte das moving gangster drama shows at prime time.
Today on TV: Clint Eastwood and Kevin Costner in Perfect World
The year is 1963 in Texas: The two inmates Butch (Costner) and Terry (Keith Szarabajka) have broken out of prison and are on the run together. They seek shelter in the house of a strict religious family and take their eight-year-old son Phillip (TJ Lowther) hostage. When Terry wants to harm the child, Butch kills his partner in crime and travels across the country alone with the child. Over time, an emotional connection develops between the man and the boywho has much more freedom at the side of his criminal surrogate father than before.
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Scene from Perfect World
Those who are on the heels of the kidnapper and his hostage also make a strange team, as Texas Ranger Red Garnett (Eastwood) is said to be in common cause with criminologist Sally Gerber (Laura Dern) and FBI sniper Bobby Lee (Bradley Whitford). make. Without knowing it, Butch has known his pursuer since he was a teenager and it wouldn’t be the first time that Red has caught him. But he would prefer to do it alive without the sniper being used.
The Spielberg Connection
Steven Spielberg was also interested in adapting John Lee Hancock’s script, which might have kept Perfect World a little more present in the zeitgeist as part of his filmography. But because he was still busy with Jurassic Park, it didn’t happen. Instead, Western star Eastwood grabbed the project to take a break from acting and work behind the camera. His main character But Costner was able to convince him of thisthat he was just too perfect for the role of Texas Rangers Red, and so the time out didn’t work.
When and where can Perfect World be seen?
arte shows the film on Sunday, December April 14, 2024 at 8:15 p.m in the German dubbed version. A broadcast via the arte media library was not announced.