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5.9/10   253 votes
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Director:
Jud Taylor
Writer:
William A. Schwartz (writer)
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Release Date:
10 January 1984 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama
Plot:
A grieving family whose daughter was killed in a car crash with a drunken driver is outraged and frustrated... more | add synopsis
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Heavy Handed Morality Tale more

Cast

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James Farentino ... John Peterson
Penny Fuller ... Judith Peterson

Don Murray ... Tom Fiske
Millie Perkins ... Mary Fiske
Ari Meyers ... Amy Peterson
Donald Moffat ... Webster
Jacqueline Brookes ... Judge Miriam Roth
Kristen Vigard ... Lynne Peterson

Denzel Washington ... Martin Sawyer
George Martin ... Steve

John M. Jackson ... Officer Caskey
Josef Rainer ... Campbell (as Joe Rainer)

Jerry Haynes ... Bill Wilson
Marc Gilpin ... Larry Chernoff
Niki Flacks ... Meredith
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Additional Details

Runtime:
96 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
UK:PG
Filming Locations:
Dallas, Texas, USA

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1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful:-
Heavy Handed Morality Tale, 22 December 2008
3/10
Author: Lechuguilla from Dallas, Texas

There's really not a whole lot to say about this low budget made-for-TV drama about two families whose lives intersect as a result of an accident involving a young girl and a drunk driver. The courtroom sequence in the second half contains some tension. And the overall acting is decent.

Maybe in its day the movie had some merit as a propaganda tool. But a generation later, the film's blunt, too-direct theme is highly off-putting. The story is not particularly entertaining. Indeed, it is something of a downer. Characters are all cardboard cutouts, lacking any degree of complexity. The family of the victim is highly respectable and squeaky clean. The head of the other family is an arrogant businessman named Tom Fiske (Don Murray) who is easy to dislike. The film's plot is trite and predictable. Script dialogue contains very little subtext. And the film's low-key piano score reeks of cheap elevator music.

I can think of no reason to recommend "License To Kill". Its thematic message of don't-drink-and-drive has long since been pounded and beaten into Americans, the highly moralistic theme belabored, ordained, and codified in countless other ways. To find films with relevant social themes, the viewer will need to look elsewhere.

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