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| ACTORS: | Amy Madigan, Ed Harris |
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Louis Malle |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 03 April, 1985 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Columbia/Tristar Studios |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-drama |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 043396605619 |
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Wonderfully written and directed Alamo Bay should be in everyone's video collection. The story is written beautifully. Loise Malle is a great director. I highly recommend this movie. I am not sure why Tri-Star hasn't yet released this film onto DVD. I would really love to see special features too. But it on video is just fine. Anyone should enjoy this film. I've seen it over ten times and i'm generally a murder mystery/horror fan!!!! Now if that doesn't say anything I don't know what does!
Unnerving, engrossing political drama...
ALAMO BAY is one of those rare films that will engross the viewer or leave him indifferent or even bewildered about "Que paso?" In my estimate French Director Louis Malle has crafted a powerful political drama/tragedy that ultimately approaches the mythic. Ed Harris portrays Shang. He is a former, decorated commbat veteran of the Viet Nam war whose livelihood as a Texas Gulf Coast shrimp fisherman is threatened by the BANK's uwillingness to grant him loan extension for his boat AMERICAN DREAM; and the influx of immigrant, former Vietnamese, novice-fishermen who are willing to work "34-hour days" to stake a claim on the Gulf's limited bounty and establish their own businesses. Amy Madigan plays Glory, his former high school sweet heart. She employs a large number of Vietnamese in her father's (played with quiet ruggedness by Donald Moffat) very profitable, Brand Name shrimping fleet. Political/racial tensions build and escalate; violence threatens. At this moment the Klan appears...ready to exploit the inevitable clash for its own agenda. Director Malle is pitiless in depicting the ironies the film explores. Here is "Shang", All-American hero, perhaps to be "deprived" of his share in the American Dream by the people he fought to defend and the woman he loves. Nor does the Director allow easy answers...particularly in a denouement that unnerves and chastens with its refusal to shrink from the questions: When is patriotism the refuge of the scoundrel and What is the American Dream and who is it for? The last frame is a "shot" of OLD GLORY...Amy Madigan's flaming red hair; sky-blue eyes and grim, pale-as-a-ghost marble visage: sweating, bloody and streaming tears. The AMERICAN IDEA has won...but the cost has been terrible and who, indeed, would eagerly stand to its DEFENSE? The town where many of these events "occurred" two decades ago is called Kemah, a tiny fishing hamlet/suburb of Houston. But it is not for nothing that Louis Malle renamed his fictional battle ground, ALAMO BAY...