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Hard Choices

A teenaged boy goes for a ride with his brother and the brother's friends, who proceed to rob a store and murder the clerk. They are caught and, despite the young boy's protestations, he is convicted of murder and sent to prison. A female social worker assigned to the boy's case not only believes him, but begins to fall in love with him, and determines to either help him prove his innocence or escape.

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Release : 1985
Rating : 6.2
Studio : Screenland,  Breakout, 
Crew : Production Design,  Director of Photography, 
Cast : Gary McCleery John Sayles J.T. Walsh Martin Donovan Spalding Gray
Genre : Drama Crime

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Cubussoli
2018/08/30

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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AniInterview
2018/08/30

Sorry, this movie sucks

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filippaberry84
2018/08/30

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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Lachlan Coulson
2018/08/30

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

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PlatinumJeweler
2015/11/23

Many movies are typical story's we've all seen. That's what I was watching until one person came along and changed everything. The story now is in a place you have no idea where it's going or how it will end. The drug dealer is like no one you have seen before and given that this review is in 2015 and the film was 1985 his talent is now known for you can witness his beginnings. The film also has another star actor in his early work to look out for as he became an A rated star. If you're like me and like a low budget movie that goes way beyond it's limits, brings you actors making a name for themselves and no other film to compare it to you won't be disappointed.

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batgirl731
2004/04/11

I couldn't believe my professor assigned this movie for a class. Ugh.The production values are not too great, and the score is AWFUL!In general, it feels like a corny 80s sex fantasy drawn out for 90 minutes.But without a lot of sex.Some of the nature scenes are very pretty, and it's almost in the so-bad-it's-fun category.But not quite.Definitely not recommended, unless you're having a bad-obscure-80s movie film fest.And maybe not even then.

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jamespower
2003/01/02

I saw this when it opened in NYC by mistake. I thought I was going to see another movie in the same theater. I stayed and in fact came back to see it again. It had some very good scenes, especially the early prison scene, and you really hope they do get away. I even made contact with the producer and thought I could do something on his next movie, but it was called rollerboys and the script was terrible so I didn't even bother to see it. From what I hear it is one of the all time bombs. But see Hard Choices if you can.

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dg-7
1998/11/02

HARD CHOICES begins with a young boy in a small town who dreams about flying planes. One day his brother and another guy take him on a joyride, which culminates in the murder of a store clerk in a botched robbery. That's the end of the kid. The kid is a victim of circumstance but not to the law who put him in a cell with the hard criminals.HARD CHOICES begins in almost documentary fashion. We observe the Tennessee backwoods where Bobby lives. Up until the crime the movie seems painfully routine - I guess that's the idea - and then the murder. The middle text of the movie is with Bobby in prison, and he's a hearbreaker. A female social worker(Margaret Klennck) comes to visit him. Bobby's attracted to her and she to him and then the unpredictable happens.HARD CHOICES, gritty and rough, contains moments of pure revelation. The sad course of Bobby's life and the shocking but touching affair with the woman whch is both senstive as it is hot and forbidden.. That's unpredictable enough but things escalate, the movie becomes a sombre thriller and anything's possible.I didn't recognize any of the actors in this movie, although John Sayles plays a kind hearted drug dealer with a crush on the woman. This movie come to think of it is full of hard choices and Rick King the director never makes the material predictable or soapy. In the end, all we can hope is for Bobby to have some kind of life., maybe flying a plane. This is a great film, the kind of film that cries out to be discovered on video and cable.DGSTAR STAR STAR STAR (out of four)

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