State of Grace
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Actor: Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, John Turturro, Robin Wright Penn, Sean PennBrand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 134 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-12-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of State of Grace
DVD Review: A Mobster's Homecoming
Summary: 4 Stars
At the outset, I will concede that I've never been really big on mob movies. They're OK I guess, but they've never been at the top of my list of favorite genres. That said, this is one of my favorite mob movies of the limited number of mob films I've seen in my life.
Sean Penn portrays a Boston police officer [Terry] who is called back to his hometown of New York City to assist with an NYPD Special Investigations Unit. More specifically, he is asked to go undercover in the Irish quadrant of the city, known as the Hell's Kitchen.
He is given the task of spying on his old friends of the Flannery clan. Ed Harris plays Frankie Flannery, the head of an Irish mob outfit in the Kitchen. Gary Oldman plays Jackie Flannery, Frankie's impulsive, violence-prone loose cannon of a brother.
Robin Wright Penn portrays Kate, the sister of the Flannery brothers. She is most well known for being Sean Penn's wife (although I'm unsure whether they were married yet when this film was made) and for starring in The Princess Bride (Special Edition). Kate has always done her best to escape the life of being the sister to criminals, but feels that with Terry's return she is being sucked back into the affairs of the Kitchen.
All through the storyline, there are hints that the Irish mob used to be far more powerful & autonomous than it is these days. Also, the Hell's Kitchen was much more "pure" Irish, but over time the percentage of Irishmen in the Kitchen has declined, and the Irish mob's power has eroded along with this decline. So much as changed, in fact, that Flannery's outfit these days is the mob world's equivalent of a "subcontractor" to an Italian mob outfit. This, of course, sparks all sorts of resentment and minor turf battles that have the propensity of churning out tragic outcomes.
As a sidenote, in this story Ed Harris & Gary Oldman play brothers. They would both go on to individually portray the great composer Ludwig van Beethoven. Oldman plays the musician in Immortal Beloved while Harris plays Beethoven in the recent Copying Beethoven. That both actors can play in a mob movie and turn around & play the same historical figure (very well on both accounts, I may add!) is a testimony to the acting prowess of both.
The present film is directed by Philip Jounou, who also directed U2's film U2 - Rattle and Hum. John Turtorro frequently shows up in mob movies, and in this one he is a cop instead of a mobster. One can't question the competency of the cast overall as it is top-notch. If you like mob movies at all, or if you have a single drop of Irish blood in your veins, then I would highly recommend this film. If neither of the above applies to you, I still this film would be worth a viewing.
Description of State of Grace
New York City s Hell s Kitchen is a pressure cooker of pent-up anger and it s about to explode! Sean Penn Ed Harris Gary Oldman Robin Wright John Turturro and John C. Reilly deliver exceptional performances (The Hollywood Reporter) in this finely drawn tale of betrayal redemption and guilt (Los Angeles) that ll put you on the edge of your seat (Newsweek)! Terry Noonan (Penn) returns to his old neighborhood with a score to settle. He s now an undercover cop dead-set on taking down an Irish mob family headed by Frankie Flannery (Harris) and his hot-headed brother Jackie (Oldman). But when Noonan infiltrates the family his old feelings for the Flannerys sister (Wright) further heighten the stakes as he enters a violent showdown with them duringSystem Requirements: Running Time 134 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 027616881434 Manufacturer No: 1004036Overshadowed by GoodFellas when it was released in 1990, State of Grace gradually emerged as one of the best New York gangster films of its decade. It was also the first to feature the Irish American mob known as the Westies. Here, their territory west of Times Square is being gentrified by an unwelcome infusion of yuppie cash, squeezing them into a reluctant alliance with Mafia kingpins. Frankie (Ed Harris) is the boss; little brother Jackie (Gary Oldman) is his volatile muscle; their friend Terry (Sean Penn) has returned from an extended absence, harboring a dangerous secret while rekindling his love for Frankie and Jackie's sister Kathleen (Robin Wright, Penn's future wife). Giving one of his scariest, most violent performances, Oldman offers stark, brutal contrast to Harris's pent-up fury, while Penn breathes life into his character's standard-issue dilemma. A former protégé of Steven Spielberg's, director Phil Joanou handles this gritty potboiler with confident, unobtrusive style, ramping up the tension of divided loyalties, even as the plot grows increasingly familiar. --Jeff Shannon
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