Bill's Gun Shop
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| Bill's Gun Shop | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Dean Hyers |
| Written by | Dean Hyers Rob Nilsson |
| Produced by | Ann Luster Michael Tabor |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Mickey Freeman |
| Edited by | Eric Goldstein Lee Percy |
| Music by | Chan Poling Peter Himmelman |
Production company | Dangerous Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Bill's Gun Shop is a 2001 American drama film directed by Dean Hyers, starring Scott Cooper and John Ashton.
Cast
[edit]- Scott Cooper as Dillion McCarthy
- John Ashton as Bill Voight
- Tom Bower as Tom
- James Keane as Delbert
- Victor Rivers as Rick
- Carolyn Hauck as Marla Voight
- Sage Galesi as Arnie Broch
- Jacy King as Hillary
- Jesse Abbott as Hassan
- Rith Afton as Susan McCarthy
- M. Cochise Anderson as Shonto Carver
- James Craven as Roy
- Santino Craven as Andel
- Denise Du Maurier as Grandma McCarthy
- Michelle Francois as Patricia McCarthy
- Lolita Lesheim as Wanda Gomez
Release
[edit]The film premiered at the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Film Festival on 14 April 2001.[1]
Reception
[edit]Colin Covert of the Star Tribune rated the film 3.5 stars out of 4 and wrote that the film "combines solid technique, knuckle-biting suspense and sharply etched human relationships."[2]
Dennis Harvey of Variety wrote, "Never convincing, drama delivers heavy-handed ironies along with alternately witty/hackneyed dialogue, plus too much in-joke cineaste referencing."[3]
Eric D. Snider of DVD Talk rated the film 1 star out of 5 and wrote, "Bill's Gun Shop is a truly bad movie that has, somewhere deep beneath its odd subplots and sidetracks, a reasonably good idea."[4]
Justin-Nicholas Toyama of Home Media Retailing wrote, "Underdeveloped character relationships discredit a cogent, though thin plot. The romantic interest is grossly underplayed and superfluous."[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Covert, Colin (13 April 2001). "THIS `GUN' FOR HYERS Local director hits the target with his debut at the Minneapolis/St. Paul film festival". Star Tribune. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
- ^ Covert, Colin (13 April 2001). "BILL'S GUN SHOP". Star Tribune. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
- ^ Harvey, Dennis (26 October 2001). "Bill's Gun Shop". Variety. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
- ^ Snyder, Eric D. (5 July 2006). "Bill's Gun Shop". DVD Talk. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
- ^ Toyama, Justin-Nicholas (7 May 2006). "BILL'S GUN SHOP". Home Media Retailing. Retrieved 8 October 2023.