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American Gun

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American Gun
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R,1hr 29min
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May 23, 2002
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Lightning Entertainment
Synopsis: James Coburn stars in this disappointing drama about a man who tracks the gun he believes killed his daughter. Living out his twilight years in a dreary, snowbound Vermont town, tragedy strikes when his beloved daughter (Virginia Madsen) returns home for the holidays. While out doing some last minute shopping, she is shot and killed, seemingly by a nameless local thug. Crushed by her tragic and sudden death Coburn's hard-working everyman falls to pieces and decides to set out on in search of the ... Full Synopsis
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Well-acted and ambitious, this drama about America's fascination, and love affair, with guns is mired too heavily in its middling story. Telling the tale of a man who, like so many other boys in this country, was weaned on the glamour and power of firearms, the film unfortunately never explores the more interesting aspects of its hero's conflicted odyssey. A Korean War veteran, plagued by a devastating ... Full Review
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