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Writers (WGA):
Martin Goldsmith (earlier story) &
Jack Leonard (earlier story) ...
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Release Date:
21 September 1990 (USA) more
Tagline:
Sometimes the difference between life and death can be a Narrow Margin more
Plot:
A woman secretly witnesses the murder of her blind date for the evening by a top Mafia boss. She immediately... more | add synopsis
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The Résumé Indie
(From IFC. 11 August 2009, 7:35 AM, PDT)
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A thriller can't get better than this more (31 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Gene Hackman | ... | Robert Caulfield |
 | Anne Archer | ... | Carol Hunnicut |
 | James Sikking | ... | Nelson (as James B. Sikking) |
 | J.T. Walsh | ... | Michael Tarlow |
 | M. Emmet Walsh | ... | Sergeant Dominick Benti |
| Susan Hogan | ... | Kathryn Weller |
| Nigel Bennett | ... | Jack Wootton |
| J.A. Preston | ... | Martin Larner |
| B.A. 'Smitty' Smith | ... | Keller |
| Codie Lucas Wilbee | ... | Nicholas |
| Barbara Russell | ... | Nicholas' Mother (as Barbara E. Russell) |
| Antony Holland | ... | Elderly Man |
| Doreen Ramos | ... | Elderly Woman |
| Kevin McNulty | ... | James Dahlbeck |
| Andrew Rhodes | ... | Sgt. Nigro |
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97 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.20 : 1 more
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Dolby SR (35 mm prints) | 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)
Certification:
Argentina:13 | Iceland:14 | Iceland:16 (video rating) | Australia:M | Finland:K-14 | Germany:16 | Norway:15 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R | Singapore:PG
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The cabin featured in the first act was specifically built for the movie. Peter Hyams decided to build it on top of a mountain in that particular spot while it was still covered in winter snow. When the snow melted it turned out that the spot was actually a dump and it took a short while to clear it out. more
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Continuity: The characters' shadows in the final showdown on the car roof are of different lengths in different shots. Most notably, in one shot the villain casts his shadow all the way onto the rocks that pass the train, while in the very next shot his shadow is short and stays entirely on the car roof. more
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Remake of The Narrow Margin (1952) more
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For once, the remake is better than the original. Richard Fleischer's black and white movie has many fans, and rightly so, but the 1990 version really has something to it that makes me watch it again and again. The story and the characters have largely improved, and someone really had a lucky hand with the casting here. Gene Hackman gives a great performance as the loudmouth police detective who finds out that he is not as smart as he had thought. He is on his own, he is scared and he also has a bad conscience. Along with numerous action scenes he shows all these sentiments, the viewers can really feel with him. The same can be said for Anne Archer, together with Hackman she makes a formidable team. She is really perfect for the part of an upper middle class businesswoman who is looking for some romance and suddenly finds herself on the hit list of the mob. A formidable opening scene with a short but really great performance by J.T. Walsh sets the tone, and the tension never loosens.
A very important part is also played by the landscape, a remote, idyllic part of Western Canada, I believe. The director successfully succeeded in putting a romantic scenery opposite to the harrowing plot, the hectic action which has nothing to do with its immediate surroundings. Nature is depicted in its friendliest forms of appearance as an innocent bystander. Everything is so normal, so lovely, except ...