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Nov 24, 1993 · A Perfect World. “A Perfect World” contains a prison break, the taking of a hostage, a chase across Texas, two murders, various robberies, and a final confrontation between a fugitive and a lawman. It is not really about any of those things, however.
Butch (Kevin Costner), a escaped state prisoner from a Texas jail, kidnaps Philip (T.J. Lowther), a young, impressionable boy. As they embark on a trip across the American Southwest together, a ...
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Apr 1, 2023 · Eastwood is known for his hypermasculine characters, but A Perfect World is perhaps his best film about masculinity, as its trio of traumatized men are all punished for showing sensitivity.
An intelligent and resourceful prison escapee named Butch Haynes (Kevin Costner) takes an eight-year-old boy (T.J. Lowther) hostage, as Haynes roams across Texas in the early 1960s. Meanwhile, the authorities, headed by a Texas Ranger (Clint Eastwood), set out to capture Haynes, in an Airstream trailer.
A Perfect World is a 1993 American thriller crime drama film directed by Clint Eastwood. It stars Kevin Costner as an escaped convict who takes a young boy (T. J. Lowther) hostage and attempts to escape on the road with the child. Eastwood co-stars as a Texas Ranger in pursuit of the convict.
A Perfect World: Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood, Laura Dern, T.J. Lowther. A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor, an escaped convict on the run from the law, while the search for him continues.
Jul 12, 2024 · Kevin Costner is tremendous in Clint Eastwood’s winding, affecting road movie. A Perfect World ’s narrative is set into motion by the taking of a hostage: an 8-year-old boy most people call Buzz (T.J. Lowther) by recent prison escapees Butch and Terry (Kevin Costner and Keith Szarabajka).
