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The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the real shooter.The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the real shooter.The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the real shooter.
Toshirô Mifune
- Keith
- (as Toshiro Mifune)
Robert Courtleigh
- First Mate of T.K.
- (as Robert Courleigh)
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- TriviaAccording to Jeff Bridges, Toshirô Mifune didn't know any English and had to learn his lines phonetically.
- GoofsNick Kegan does appear to be a bit young to be a brother of a U.S. President who was slain nearly 20 years earlier. However, it's explained that Pa Kegan fathered them from two different wives. Men are known for fathering children (from different women) decades apart.
- Quotes
John Cerruti: I'm so glad you're here! I receive so few outsiders. Who to trust? Who to trust? All of the nerves, but none of the flesh.
- Alternate versionsReissued in 1983 with deleted scenes restored.
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A surreal, over-the-top look at American politics & power
Winter Kills once was available on videotape; no longer. That's a pity because it's a stylish, fun-packed phantasmagoria about American power as expressed through American politics. (Since the source material was written by Richard Condon -- of Manchurian Candidate and Prizzi's Honor fame -- the points are not subtle; merely irresistible.) Based loosely on the Kennedy saga (as what isn't these days: look at Dominick Dunne's oeuvre), the film casts Jeff Bridges, at his most young and vital, as the baby brother of a slain president. Trying to track down clues to the assassination, he embarks on one of those labyrinthine quests undertaken by the likes of the poisoned protagonist in D.O.A. or Mike Hammer in Kiss Me Deadly. Of course, the clues boomerang back, leading him into the viperish nest of his own family, especially his father, a randy old psycho played to the hilt by John Huston. But even this filthy rich patriarch doesn't work the strings anymore; they've gone corporate, become systemic, and are pulled by a bland bureaucrat played by Anthony Perkins. This movie is a mad midway ride, overflowing with cameos that pop up like death's-heads in the funhouse. Watch for Liz Taylor, as a fabled madame, silently mouthing a profanity.
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- Aug 7, 2000
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- Also known as
- Philadelphia Clan
- Filming locations
- Death Valley National Park, California, USA(Pa Kegan's villa)
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- Budget
- $6,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,161,386
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $11,182
- Aug 13, 2023
- Gross worldwide
- $1,161,848
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