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Winter Kills (1979)
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Director:
William Richert
Writers:
Richard Condon (book)William Richert
Release Date:
11 May 1979 (USA)
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Genre:
Drama / Thriller more
Tagline:
They are the power. Protected by violence and ruled by corruption. [Video] more
Plot Summary:
19 years after President Timothy Keegan was assassinated, his brother Nick discovers a dying man claiming to have been the gunman...
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Plot Keywords:
Satire
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Assassination Of President
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Assassination
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Political
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U.S. President
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User Comments:
Incoherent conspiracy comedy-thriller which works neither as a comedy nor a thriller.
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(Cast overview, first billed only)Jeff Bridges ... Nick KeganJohn Huston ... Pa KeganAnthony Perkins ... John CerrutiEli Wallach ... Joe DiamondSterling Hayden ... Z.K. DawsonDorothy Malone ... Emma KeganTomas Milian ... Frank MayoBelinda Bauer ... Yvette MaloneRalph Meeker ... Gameboy BakerToshirô Mifune ... KeithRichard Boone ... KeifitzDavid Spielberg ... Miles GarnerBrad Dexter ... Captain Heller OneMichael Thoma ... Ray DotyEd Madsen ... Captain Heller Twomore
Runtime:
97 min/ Netherlands:96 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Australia:M/ Iceland:16/ Finland:K-16/ UK:18 (video rating) (1986) / UK:X (original rating) / USA:R
Filming Locations:
Death Valley National Park, California, USA
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Company:
Winter Gold Productions
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Quotes:
Pa Kegan:
I'm all that's standing between you and darkest night, son. The other side of me, there's Chaos.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Who Killed 'Winter Kills'? (2003) (V)
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Incoherent conspiracy comedy-thriller which works neither as a comedy nor a thriller., 3 January 2006
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Jonathon Dabell (barnabyrudge@hotmail.com) from Wakefield, England
Winter Kills is a terrible, incoherent and very disappointing
conspiracy comedy-thriller from little-known director William Richert.
While watching the film, I honestly felt as if I was the emperor in the
classic fable The Emperor's New Clothes. The film made me feel like a
fool because I couldn't make head nor tail of the serpentine plot and
the nonsensical characters. But I felt kind of embarrassed to admit to
myself that the film was tying my brain up in knots. So I stuck with it
to the end, hoping that the whole tangled mess would untangle itself.
Then I realised.... the film is SUPPOSED to be serpentine, nonsensical
and illogical, because that's the whole point. This is a satirical look
at conspiracy theories and theorists, with the knotting-up of the plot
used as a metaphor for the knotting-up of truths, half-truths and lies
that define any conspiracy. Even when I got that the joke was on me, I
still felt Winter Kills to be a pretty awful movie.Young Nick Kegan (Jeff Bridges) is the younger brother of a former
United States President who was assassinated in Philadelphia. Nick is
present when a dying man claims that he shot the President and gives
detailed information about where he hid the gun. Nick follows the
clues, but every step of the way the people helping him seem to die in
mysterious circumstances. Also, his father Pa Kegan (John Huston), a
vulgar and disgustingly wealthy businessman, keeps interfering with
Nick's investigation. The deeper he delves into the assassination, the
more Nick realises that he is descending into a web of complex lies and
red herrings, where nothing is as it seems and no-one can be trusted.The film is an utter nightmare to follow, and in many ways is not worth
trying to follow for the afore-mentioned reason that it deliberately
tangles itself up. The cast is packed with extraordinary talent but
most of them are wasted. Toshiro Mifune has one of the briefest and
most pointless cameo roles in cinematic history; Elizabeth Taylor
appears uncredited and has not a single line of dialogue; Richard Boone
is given what seems to be an interesting role but his character goes
nowhere. John Huston has the best role as the powerful patriarch and
provides us with the film's few enjoyable moments with his acerbic
delivery. Anthony Perkins also gets a creepy role and handles it well,
though his screen time is far too short to do complete justice to the
character. Some nudity and sex scenes are tossed in for no real reason
and, while they're quite graphic and might appeal to voyeurs, they
really belong in another film. The film's semi-comic climax is farcical
and disappointing, yet paradoxically memorable in its weird little way.
There's obviously a cult audience out there somewhere for Winter
Kills.... but I won't be counting myself among its number.
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