A Perfect World
A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor, an escaped convict on the run from the law, while the search for him continues.
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"An intelligent and resourceful prison escapee named Butch Haynes (Kevin Costner) takes an eight-year-old boy (T.J. Lowther) hostage, as Haynes roams across Texas in the early 1960s. Meanwhile, the authorities, headed by a Texas Ranger (Clint Eastwood), set out to capture Haynes, in an Airstream trailer. Costner does a fine job as Haynes, an interesting character who happens to like waltz music. Lowther is equally good in his role, a boy who comes from a family whose religious beliefs are quite strict. On their sojourn, the boy acquires, and sometimes wears, a Casper-the-friendly-ghost mask, a..."
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Clint Eastwood was not originally going to act in the movie. Kevin Costner talked him into it, by stating that he would only commit to act in the film if Eastwood did too, as he wanted a movie poster with both of them on it. Eastwood accepted the condition.
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A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor, an escaped convict on the run from the law, while the search for him continues.