At Close Range (1986)
Directed by James Foley · Cinematography by Juan Ruiz Anchía
R116 min66 frames
CrimeDramaThriller
Like father. Like son. Like hell.
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What is At Close Range about?
Brad Whitewood Jr. lives in rural Pennsylvania and has few prospects. Against his mother's wishes, he seeks out his estranged father, the head of a gang of thieves in a nearby town. Though his new girlfriend supports his criminal ambitions, Brad Jr. soon learns that his father is a dangerous man. Inspired by the real events that led to the end of the Johnston Gang, who operated in the northeastern United States in the 1970s.
At Close Range is a 1986 American independent rural noir crime thriller film directed by James Foley from a screenplay written by Nicholas Kazan, based on the real life rural Pennsylvania crime family led by Bruce Johnston Sr., which occurred during the 1960s and 1970s. It stars Sean Penn and Christopher Walken, with Mary Stuart Masterson, Crispin Glover, Tracey Walter, Chris Penn, Eileen Ryan, David Strathairn and Kiefer Sutherland in supporting roles.
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What does the cinematography of At Close Range look like?
Sampled across 65 frames, the coverage of At Close Range leans on medium shots (38% of the sample) and wide compositions (31%). Cinematographer Juan Ruiz Anchía keeps 66% of it in soft, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 65% of the frames. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 62% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1980s.
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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of At Close Range (1986) are #312f2d, #0f0e0f, #534f4c, #473832, #8b7569, #74716e — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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