Costner plays butch haynes, a hardened prison escapee on. Lowther and ends up embarking on a road trip with the child. The troubles of a perfect world the new york times. This is where a perfect world is brilliant, and ill attribute it mostly to costners. Academy award winners kevin costner and clint eastwood confront each other from opposite sides of the law in a perfect world, an acclaimed, multilayered manhunt saga directed by eastwood that rumbles down texas backroads toward a harrowing collision with fate. But a perfect world is not about clints character, red. It possibly is his greatest performance of his career. The movie paired two of the worlds biggest stars, kevin costner and clint. Jan 10, 1994 just about everyone in hollywood was convinced that the film a perfect world would emerge a winner. A perfect world internet movie firearms database guns in. A perfect world is a very good and very underrated clint eastwood film.
Costner plays butch haynes, a hardened prison escapee on the lam with a young hostage t. Kevin costner was 37 in a perfect world when he played the character robert butch haynes that was over 26 years ago in 1993. Mar 20, 2020 kevin costner, american film actor and director known for his portrayals of rugged but sensitive individuals. A perfect world 8 press kit slides kevin costner clint. But maybe thats what big star power is really about. This is the type of film only clint eastwood could make. Working from john lee hancocks original script, clint eastwood crafts a subtle and haunting work that features what is perhaps kevin costner s best performance. A perfect world is a near perfect film, and this is one of kevin costners best films. Costners character, butch haynes, is a young man who drifted into trouble and was sentenced unfairly, to get him out of the way. Criminals butch kevin costner and terry keith szarabajka have escaped from a texas prison on halloween. Laura dern is a fairly useless rookie criminologist along for the ride.
Kevin costners 10 best performances hollywood reporter. Lowther, director clint eastwood gets caught up in the junior gold rush. Eastwood costars as the texas ranger charged with leading the task force assigned to recapture the c. The response to the movie back in november of 1993 was somewhat surprising. He found success in such movies as the untouchables, bull durham, field of dreams, and the bodyguard but was perhaps best known for dances with wolves, for which he won oscars for best picture and director.
A perfect world may not be the clint eastwoodkevin costner movie that we expected, and on some level, it may even seem perverse. A perfect world is a 1993 american crime drama film directed by clint eastwood. While field of dreams may be the movie that most of the world likes to quote, youll find me muttering ill be playing a pink lady today on a neardaily basis. The obvious psychopath of the duo, terry breaks into the house of a family of jehovahs witness. A perfect world this curiously overlooked drama from clint eastwood, released just after his oscar triumph with unforgiven, concerns a prisoner kevin costner on the lam with a kidnapped young boy as protection and the texas ranger eastwood and federal agent laura dern on his tail. A perfect world has the structure of a chase flick, but its really a terse chamber drama about the relationship between escaped convict butch haynes costner and the 8yearold kid t. A perfect world 1993 trailer kevin costner clint eastwood.
A second kevin costner and modern west album, turn it on, was released in february 2010 in europe and was supported by a european tour. The movie paired two of the worlds biggest stars, kevin costner and clint eastwood, whose last few films were financial bonanzas. They find themselves in a quiet neighborhood the following morning. Kevin costner full list of movies and tv shows in theaters, in production and upcoming films. It stars kevin costner as an escaped convict who befriends a young boy and ends up embarking on a road trip with the child. The film primarily focuses on the relationship between haynes and an innocent 8. Eastwoods directing career thus far, could never be mistaken for a young mans movie.
Tin cup is number two on my costner sports movie list. Rent a perfect world 1993 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. In a perfect world, a shanelike pairing of kevin costner with newcomer t. A perfect world 1993 clint eastwood kevin costner duration.
A perfect world is a 1993 crime drama road film directed by clint eastwood starring kevin costner as an escaped convict who befriends a young boy t. Double academy award winners kevin costner and clint eastwood. Today he is 65, and has starred in 66 movies in total, 39 since a perfect world was released. Read the a perfect world movie synopsis, view the movie trailer, get cast and crew information, see movie photos, and more on. Eastwood costars as a texas ranger in pursuit of the convict.
A perfect world may not be the clint eastwoodkevin costner movie that we. In july 2012, the band performed in halifax, nova scotia, at the 20th annual telus world skins game in support of the iwk health centre foundation, donating a guitar personally autographed by costner. A perfect world 1994 butch kevin costner, a escaped state prisoner from a texas jail, kidnaps philip t. As they embark on a trip across the american southwest together, a. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started. A perfect world is a 1993 drama directed by clint eastwood and stars kevin costner as an escaped convict who develops an unusual bond with the young boy hes kidnapped. I like kevin costner from dances with wolves to field of dreams to jfk to the. A perfect world vhs, 1994, widescreen for sale online ebay. Kevin costner plays escaped convict butch haynes, and clint eastwood, as texas ranger red garnett, is assigned to bring him in. A perfect world star kevin costner and director clint eastwood deliver lean, finely chiseled work in a perfect world, a somber, subtly nuanced study of an escaped cons complex relationship with. The eastwood character, red garnett, had something to do with that and has never felt quite right about it. Star kevin costner and director clint eastwood deliver lean, finely chiseled work in a perfect world, a somber, subtly nuanced study of an escaped cons complex relationship with an abducted boy. Lowther in a remarkable film debut who sees in butch the father. However, the general belief is that a perfect world was the movie that started kevins decline in hollywood.
Kevin costner plays against type as a small time hood who kidnaps an eight year old boy with his partner, and then dispatches the partner when it appears he may have tried to abuse the youngster. The best movie quotes, movie lines and film phrases by movie quotes. Nov 24, 1993 a perfect world, a deeply felt, deceptively simple film that marks the high point of mr. The film brings together the leading icons of two generations of strong, silent american leading men. Set in 1963 in texas, academy awardwinner kevin costner the bodyguard, dances with wolves plays an escaped convict, who, in the course of eluding the texas ranger pursuing him, academy awardwinner clint eastwood unforgiven, million dollar baby, takes a hostage a fatherless young boy who has led a strictly constrained and unhappy life. Kevin costner delivers a fine performance as escaped convict butch haynes. Costner plays against type as butch haynes, an escaped convict whose tendency toward violence is masked by his affability. Directed by eastwood from a script by john lee hancock, a perfect world is one of the academy awardwinning actordirectors most unexpected, most satisfying films. A perfect world, a deeply felt, deceptively simple film that marks the high point of mr. As they embark on a trip across the american southwest together, a surprising bond grows between the convict and his captive, even as law enforcement forces slowly catch up with them. Butch and a convict partner break out of huntsville prison in 1963 texas, steal a car and take a sevenyearold boy hostage.
A perfect world starts out quite well, with butch haynes costner and a companion breaking out of a texas prison and, after a tense confrontation with a terrified family, making off with 7year. Butch kevin costner, a escaped state prisoner from a texas jail, kidnaps philip t. The flick is a ton of fun and the cast, including rene russo, don johnson, cheech marin, and linda hart, is top notch. It starred kevin costner, one of the most bankable stars in hollywood at the time, who was coming off of a string of recent hits including dances with wolves, jfk, robin hood. Set in texas, an escaped convict in the course of eluding the texas ranger pursuing him takes a hostage a fatherless young boy who has led a strictly constrained and unhappy life.
Kevin michael costner born january 18, 1955 is a multipleoscarwinning american actordirectorproducer and honorary member of the sioux nation, perhaps best known for dances with wolves, for which he did all of those things. Lowther strikes up a friendship with his captor butch haynes kevin costner. A perfect world, ostensibly about the escape of convicts butch haynes kevin costner and terry pugh keith szarabajka from a huntsville prison, quickly focusses on their hostagetaking of an 8year old boy, philip perry t. In 1993, any movie starring clint eastwood and kevin costner would have seemed like an automatic hit and when you throw in that it was directed by eastwood and scripted by john lee hancock the blind side, its sort of puzzling that a perfect world failed to drum up much excitement at the box office. Lowther is very convincing in his role as phillip and helps take the movie from good to great. It focuses on kevin costner s escaped convict, butch, who is forced to kidnap a child, buzz because of the stupidity of his partner who also breaks out of prison with him. In a perfect world, clint eastwood plays a legendary texas ranger named. Kevin costner list of movies and tv shows tv guide. It stars kevin costner as an escaped convict who befriends a young boy t. A perfect world takes one through an entire range of human emotion while focusing on a hostage situation in progress.