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Budget. $30 million [1] Box office. $135 million [2] A Perfect World is a 1993 American thriller crime drama film directed by Clint Eastwood. It stars Kevin Costner as an escaped convict who takes a young boy ( T. J. Lowther) hostage and attempts to escape on the road with the child. Eastwood co-stars as a Texas Ranger in pursuit of the convict ...
- $30 million
- Lennie Niehaus
- November 24, 1993 (United States)
Nov 24, 1993 · A Perfect World: Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood, Laura Dern, T.J. Lowther. A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor, an escaped convict on the run from the law, while the search for him continues.
- Clint Eastwood
- 188
- 31 sec
Nov 24, 1993 · "A Perfect World" contains a prison break, the taking of a hostage, a chase across Texas, two murders, various robberies, and a final confrontation between a fugitive and a lawman. It is not really about any of those things, however. It's deeper and more interesting than that. It's about the true nature of violence and about how the child is father to the man.
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A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor, an escaped convict on the run from the law, while the search for him continues. After escaping from a Huntsville prison, convict Robert "Butch" Haynes (Kevin Costner) and his partner Terry Pugh (Keith Szarabajka) kidnap a young boy, Phillip Perry (T.J. Lowther), and flee across Texas. As ...
Butch (Kevin Costner), a escaped state prisoner from a Texas jail, kidnaps Philip (T.J. Lowther), a young, impressionable boy. As they embark on a trip across the American Southwest together, a ...
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- Clint Eastwood
- PG-13
- Kevin Costner
A Perfect World. Set in Texas, an escaped convict in the course of eluding the Texas Ranger pursuing him takes a hostage -- a fatherless young boy who has led a strictly constrained and unhappy life. 4,262 IMDb 7.5 2 h 18 min 1993. X-Ray PG-13.
A Perfect World (1993) PLOT | AUDIO | TRIVIA | CAST | CREDITS | PURCHASE. Butch Haynes (Costner) and a companion break out of a Texas prison and, after a tense confrontation with a terrified family, make off with 7-year-old Phillip Perry (T.J. Lowther) as a hostage. Hot on their heels are a team that includes Eastwood, as grizzled Texas Ranger ...