After Dark My Sweet 1990

(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098994)
A neo-noir film directed by James Foley starring Jason ...(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098994)
A neo-noir film directed by James Foley starring Jason Patric, Bruce Dern, and Rachel Ward.
It is based on the 1955 Jim Thompson novel of the same name.
Ex-boxer Kevin "Kid" Collins is a drifter and an escapee from a mental hospital. He meets
Fay Anderson, a widow, who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her ex-husband left.
"Uncle Bud" talks them both into helping kidnap a rich boy for ransom money, and the ex-fighter must make decisions about his loyalties and what is right.

Roger Ebert in his Great films review of the movie wrote "After Dark, My Sweet is the movie that eluded audiences; it grossed less than $3 mllion, has been almost forgotten, and remains one of the purest and most uncompromising of modern film noir. It captures above all the lonely, exhausted
lives of its characters." Writer David M. Meyers praised the script "The screenplay, which hews closely to Jim Thompson's heartless novel, is unusually tight, spare, and well constructed."

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