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| Avenue Pictures | Release Date: August 24, 1990 |
Starring:
Bruce Dern, Corey Carrier, George Dickerson, James E. Bowen Jr., Jason Patric, Mike Hagerty, Napoleon Walls, Rachel Ward, Rocky Giordani, Tom Wagner
Summary:
An ex-boxer is drifting around after escaping from the mental hospital. He meets a widow who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her ex-husband left. Her Uncle talks them both into helping kidnap a rich boy for ransom money, and the ex-fighter must make decisions about his loyalties and what is right.
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This is a miniature classic, a pulp tragedy. [29 Sep 1990]
After Dark, My Sweet does capture Thompson's characteristic mood - a sort of lurid fatality, where moral questions have long since dropped out and there isn't much use struggling - but it doesn't have much of his distinctive, disruptive texture. The film is much too smooth for that, much too professional and much too carefully executed. [24 Aug 1990, p.H]
James Foley's screen adaptation of Jim Thompson's 1955 novel has its flaws - it's a little too mannered for its own good - but Patric is close to perfection. [24 Aug 1990, p.22]
Nothing works in this over-elaborate let's-kidnap-a-kid melodrama. [24 Aug 1990]
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