At Close Range (1986) is a crime drama with a very impressive cast, and is based on a true story. Sean Penn does what he does best, playing a bad boy teenager, who gets back together with his father, Christopher Walken. He has met Mary Stuart Masterson, and wants an easy source of income so he can be with her. He knows his father is a shady character, and always has money. His father is actually head of a gang of rather serious criminals.

His father is not keen on the idea of letting him into the gang, but suggests that he start a youth gang with his friends, steal tractors, and sell them to his dad. The appeal wears thin when he is shot in the face with birdshot. He is eventually let into the gang, and things are going well, until he witnesses his father killing a suspected stool pigeon. At that point, he wants to make one more big score, then escape with his girlfriend. Arrested during the "big score," he is help on high bail by a district attorney hoping to get his father.

The father begins to panic, and starts killing other members of the youth gang, including Penn's brother, then rapes Mary. This is my first serious problem with the film. If you really wanted to get Penn's girlfriend on your side, keep her from talking and get her to help keep Penn quiet, is raping her the best approach? Penn has finally had enough, and turns states evidence against his father in exchange for immediate release. The two lovers are about to escape, when Dad's gang catches up to them.

I noticed a serious continuity error while watching the film (which says something about how engrossed I was in the plot), and checked the goofs link at IMDB. IMDB talks about the reflection of a boom mike in the wind-wing of a truck. If you look carefully, there is something reflected in the wind wing that could be part of a boom, or nearly anything else. The error I spotted is far less subtle. While Walken is raping Masterson, we see him tear her blouse off in shreds, leaving her in a bra and jeans skirt, then we see him lifting the skirt, but the blouse has reassembled itself on her. Finally, we see her screaming under him with the blouse gone again (See Image). In 1, he is beginning to tear off the blouse. In 2, 3 and 4, it is clearly completely off. It is back on in 5, 6, 7, and 8, and gone again in 9. I considered the possibility that they had inserted a double, but, after examining the entire scene frame by frame, her is what I think happened. As originally filmed, Walken through up her skirt, pulled of her panties (see frame 8, where he is reaching to pull them down), tore off her blouse, then raped her. My guess is that after frame 8, there was too much exposure for the censors, so they re-cut, and assembled the now mangled scene with the magic blouse.

There is no actual exposure from Mary Stuart, but she is far too cute to pass up completely. We do see her panty croth looking up the leg of her pants, and the top of her breast in bed with Penn. The exposure comes from Janie Draper playing the part of the "anonymous stripper" in a fairly long and well lit scene.

The film is highly thought of. IMDB readers say 6.8/10, Ebert gives 3 1/2 stars and Apollo says 73 (Apollo Users 72). Maltin is the lone dissenter at 2 1/2 stars. I agree with Maltin. The film never grabbed me. Much of the time the pace was painfully slow, a lot of the action seemed unmotivated, and the editing, as show above, had some serious problems. The biggest thing for me, however, was that they assembled a great supporting cast including Mary Stuart Masterson, Chris Penn, David Strathairn and Kiefer Sutherland then under used all of them. If they would have done more to explore the dynamics of the family, the gangs, and the love story, it would have made for a far better film. It is unclear to me why this film is so fondly remembered, especially given that it was made for $6.5m, and only grossed $2.347m. From my viewpoint, finding the magic self-healing blouse was the highlight of the film.

I looked at Oliver Stone's Heaven & Earth. Good movie, but tries to do more than any movie could possibly accomplish. I'll do the images tomorrow. I'm pressed for time because I'm filling in for Junior today

Honte's site is updated.

So, Junior, these are some of the last caps I'll be sending for a while. Always figured a person should find something he's good at and do it. And it seems to me I'm a whole lot better at scanning than I am at capping, perhaps because of the equipment I use. Plus, the software driving my ATI card sends my system to ground all too often. So, I'll finish editing what I've capped, look for a better card and pick up things when I get that new puppy. Until then you will just have to live with scans of drop dead gorgeous women. Oh, the humanity!

So what DO we have here? Mates of the bunnymag type in real movies. A lot of them... from different movies... capped and presented in one post. What a novel idea, you say. Yes, well, we do hate to repeat ourselves.

Let's start with a personal fave, Angel Boris . She looks a lot like Mrs. Brainscan when I first met her, lo those many years ago. Here she is a highly choreographed strip sequence from the movie, Exit. Just like all those high-energy, skillfully produced shows you and I always see in strip clubs, right guys?

Then there is Ava Fabian . Fabulous face. Used to introduce the episodes to that Red Shoe Diaries rip-off Erotic Confessions. Only two things better about EC than RSD were: 1) the host got nekkid every episode; 2) the host was not David Duchovny. Here's Ava reading one of the many letters... in the buff.

Two Hope Marie Carlton's (1, 2) for the price of one, both in the tub. First is from the movie Terminal Exposure and the other from the Sidaris masterpiece, Picasso Trigger. It was the latter that brought to consciousness why I detest Sidaris movies. HPC walks into the hot tub nekkid, grabs a glass of wine and talks to some dork while playing with his hair. And what does the guy do? Nothing. Nada. This is a pre-adolescent fantasy of what makes up eroticism: a naked babe within eyeshot. No intimacy, just a clear view of bare hooters. That's Sidaris in a nutshell. What a friggin waste of... well, not talent. Time? Money? Yep. But not talent.

Lousy caps of Linda Beatty Carpenter, in the movie A Different Story. Twas her only scene ever, however, so I'm sending it along.

And then there was Kathy Shower , otherwise known as the poor man's Shannon Tweed. Lots of movies. Nekkid in all of em. Junior, I know you're thinking she could poke out someone's eye with those; and I wouldn't mind getting close enough to test that prediction.

Let's finish up with Rebecca Armstrong, as the unconscious hooter-grabbing victim in the Immortalizer

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