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| Directed by | Paul Schrader |
| Produced by | Buzz Feitshans John Milius |
| Written by | Paul Schrader |
| Starring | George C. Scott Peter Boyle Season Hubley |
| Music by | Jack Nitzsche |
| Cinematography | Michael Chapman |
| Editing by | Tom Rolf |
| Studio | A-Team Productions |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | February 9, 1979 (USA) |
| Running time | 109 Minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Hardcore is a 1979 American drama film written and directed by Paul Schrader and starring George C. Scott. Writer-director Schrader had previously written the screenplay for Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, and both films share a theme of exploring an unseen subculture.
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Plot [link]
Jake Van Dorn (George C. Scott) is a prosperous local businessman in Grand Rapids, Michigan who has strong Calvinist convictions. A single parent, Van Dorn is the father of a seemingly quiet, conservative teenage girl, Kristen, who inexplicably disappears when she goes on a church-sponsored trip to California. A strange private investigator, Andy Mast (Peter Boyle) from Los Angeles, is hired, eventually turning up a 8mm stag film of his daughter with two young men.
Van Dorn then suspects that his daughter was kidnapped and forced to join California's porno underworld. His quest to rescue her takes him into an odyssey through this "adult" underground.
Getting no results from the PI, the police or even from Los Angeles' adult shopkeepers and "rap parlor" women, a desperate Van Dorn ends up posing as a pornography producer, hoping to find information about his daughter. A straggly actor named "Jism Jim", who was in the film with Kristen, knows where she might be and sends him to a sometime porno actress/hooker named Niki (Season Hubley). Their uneasy alliance moves from L.A. to San Diego and ends in San Francisco where Van Dorn finds that Kristen may be in the hands of a very dangerous porn player who deals in the world of "snuff movies."
Cast [link]
- George C. Scott – Jake VanDorn
- Peter Boyle – Andy Mast
- Season Hubley – Niki
- Dick Sargent – Wes DeJong
- Leonard Gaines – Ramada
- Dave Nichols – Kurt (as David Nichols)
- Gary Graham – Tod (as Gary Rand Graham)
- Larry Block – Detective Burrows
- Marc Alaimo – Ratan
- Leslie Ackerman – Felice
- Charlotte McGinnis – Beatrice (as Charlotte McGinnes)
- Ilah Davis – Kristen VanDorn
- Paul Marin – Joe VanDorn
- Will Walker – Jism Jim
- Hal Williams – Big Dick Blaque
Awards [link]
- 29th Berlin International Film Festival (Nominated)
- Golden Berlin Bear: Paul Schrader[1]
References [link]
- ^ "IMDb.com: Awards for Hardcore". imdb.com. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079271/awards. Retrieved 2010-08-14.
External links [link]
- Hardcore at the Internet Movie Database
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