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- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 14% of 7 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 3.4/10. Critic Roger Ebert gave it 1.5 stars out of 4. Ebert liked the characters and thought them believable, but excoriated the plot as nonsensical and absurd, particularly the kidnapping scheme.
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The Prince of Pennsylvania: Directed by Ron Nyswaner. With Fred Ward, Keanu Reeves, Bonnie Bedelia, Amy Madigan. A teenager in love, who needs money to arrange his future life with his mistress, kidnaps his own father for ransom, but nobody cares.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Ron Nyswaner
- 1988-10
The movie involves a coal miner who has an unrealistic, romantic view of life. He pictures himself as the king of Pennsylvania, his wife as the queen, and their son as the prince who will someday inherit the kingdom.
Rupert Marshetta (Keanu Reeves), a loud-mouthed punk rocker with a taste for the intellectual, is bored stiff and on the verge of failing out of his senior year of high school. But when Marshetta...
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- Ron Nyswaner
- R
- Fred Ward
The Prince of Pennsylvania is a 1988 comedy drama film written and directed by Ron Nyswaner. It stars Fred Ward, Keanu Reeves, Bonnie Bedelia and Amy Madigan.
For coal-miner's son Keanu Reeves the answer is a no-brainer: his father is a Vietnam War veteran turned ultra-conservative; his feisty mother is having an affair with dad's best buddy; and his only friend is a socially marginalized, die-hard hippie.
The Prince of Pennsylvania Reviews. The quirky charm soon wears thin as the shrewd observations of small town frustration give way to a more strained oddball humour. Full Review | Jun 24, 2006...
Set in a remote Pennsylvania coal-mining town, this off-beat comedy follows the relationship between Carla, a hippie woman, and Rupert, a young punk rocker who feels like a pariah. Hoping to leave their current lives behind, the two conspire to kidnap Rupert's father and hold him for ransom.
