American Gun (2002 film)
5.2 /10 1 Votes
40% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Drama Music director Anthony Marinelli Writer Alan Jacobs | 6.4/10 IMDb Director Alan Jacobs Initial DVD release February 17, 2004 Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 2002 Cast James Coburn (Martin Tillman), Virginia Madsen (Penny Tillman), Barbara Bain (Anne Tillman), Alexandra Holden (Mia), Brittany Krall (Murder Victim)Similar movies Fish Tank , Jupiter Ascending , Factory Girl , The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things , Pitch Perfect 2 , At the Edge of the Abyss | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A distraught man (James Coburn) embarks on a cross-country odyssey to track the weapon used to kill his daughter (Virginia Madsen).
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American Gun is a 2002 drama film written and directed by Alan Jacobs. It stars James Coburn (in his final film), Virginia Madsen, Barbara Bain and Alexandra Holden.
A brilliant story with an unexpected twist. A father uses the serial number on a hand gun in an attempt to track down his daughter's killer. The truth he uncovers is an unsettling reminder of the dangers of keeping handguns. Stars the legendary James Coburn and the incredibly gifted Virginia Madsen. Written and directed by Alan Jacobs.
Plot
The film tells the story of Martin Tillman (Coburn), a World War II veteran on a cross-country journey to trace the origin of the gun used to kill his daughter Penny (Madsen). On the way he seeks for his granddaughter Mia (Holden).
Writer/director Alan Jacobs was inspired by a visit to the Smith & Wesson factory in Massachusetts, where he saw an obituary for a young girl above the workbench where a man was assembling guns. He wondered if the worker had perhaps assembled the gun that killed the girl. "At that moment it clicked," Jacobs said. "I had recently read a book called Lethal Passage by the journalist Erik Larson who tracked down the history of a submachine gun that ended up in the hands of a kid who took it to school one day. That put the idea in my head that a gun could have a history."
Similar Movies
James Coburn appears in American Gun and The Man from Elysian Fields. Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001). James Coburn appears in American Gun and Last of the Mobile Hot Shots. Virginia Madsen appears in American Gun and All the Wilderness. James Coburn appears in American Gun and Hard Times.
Production
The film was shot over a period of 40 days of principal photography which began in December, 2000 in Rutland, Vermont, followed by Los Angeles, California, Las Vegas, Nevada and Miami, Florida. The film was shot by cinematographer Phil Parmet in 35mm Kodak color, black & white, with additional footage on Sony PD150 mini-DV, and the combination of formats won the Modern Digital Cinematography Award at the Seattle Independent Film Festival in 2002.
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