Stand Alone
1985VOTE NOW
| New World Pictures | Release Date: September 1, 1985 |
Starring:
Barbara Sammeth, Bert Remsen, Bob Tzudiker, Charles Durning, James Keach, Lu Leonard, Luis Contreras, Mary Ann Smith, Pam Grier, Willard E. Pugh
Summary:
A World War II vet is pushed to the limit when gang members and drug dealers take over his neighborhood.
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Ever since Charles Durning played the governor of Texas in Best Little Whorehouse and danced around the rotunda in a tutu, I've thought he might be my kinda guy. Now he's proved it in Stand Alone, or "Death Wish for Grandpas," the best movie ever made about Medicare patients that decide to bayonet all the South American cocaine dealers in town.
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The picture is schematic and awkward, made in movie-of-the-week style and laced with implausibilities and ham- handed set pieces. Still, someone deserves a nod for making Gramps the hero of an action potboiler. It's an idea, and in the Hollywood of the '80s ideas are very rare, very special things. [31 Oct 1985, p.6]
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