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Five Corners is a 1987 American independent crime drama film, directed by Tony Bill, written by John Patrick Shanley, and starring Jodie Foster, Tim Robbins, John Turturro, and Rodney Harvey. The film depicts 48 hours in the lives of a group of four young New Yorkers in the 1960s.
Jan 22, 1988 · Jan. 22, 1988 12 AM PT. Writers often reinvent their adolescence endlessly, and, in “Five Corners” (selected theaters) John Patrick Shanley, reshapes his in an amusingly crackpot way. The movie...
Mar 5, 1988 · Directed by Tony Bill, “Five Corners” is linked with “Moonstruck” by its New York setting and by Shanley’s genius for conveying the way the people of that peculiar place live and think, feel,...
- CHARLES CHAMPLIN
Five Corners: Directed by Tony Bill. With Jodie Foster, Tim Robbins, Todd Graff, John Turturro. A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Tony Bill
- 1988-05
This unusual film follows the unhinged Heinz (John Turturro), a rapist who has been released from prison, as he attempts to court Linda (Jodie Foster), a young woman whom he previously attacked.
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- Tony Bill
- R
- Jodie Foster
1h 32m. TCM Emails. Sign Up. Set in 1964 in a lower middle-class New York neighborhood, Heinz has just been released from prison but is still obsessed with Linda.
Directed by Tony Bill • 1987 • United States. Starring Jodie Foster, John Turturro, Tim Robbins. Youthful idealism collides with matter-of-fact violence in a working-class Bronx neighborhood in the early 1960s in this captivatingly offbeat urban mosaic featuring an extraordinary ensemble cast.
