Bill's Gun Shop

2001 American film
  • Scott Cooper
  • John Ashton
CinematographyMickey FreemanEdited byEric Goldstein
Lee PercyMusic byChan Poling
Peter Himmelman
Production
company
Dangerous Films
Release date
  • 14 April 2001 (2001-04-14) (Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Film Festival)
Running time
92 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Bill's Gun Shop is a 2001 American drama film directed by Dean Hyers, starring Scott Cooper and John Ashton.

Cast

  • Scott Cooper as Dillion McCarthy
  • John Ashton as Bill Voight
  • Victor Rivers as Rick
  • Tom Bower as Tom
  • James Keane as Delbert
  • 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

The film premiered at the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Film Festival on 14 April 2001.[1]

Reception

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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Covert, Colin (13 April 2001). "BILL'S GUN SHOP". Star Tribune. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  3. ^ Harvey, Dennis (26 October 2001). "Bill's Gun Shop". Variety. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  4. ^ Snyder, Eric D. (5 July 2006). "Bill's Gun Shop". DVD Talk. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  5. ^ Toyama, Justin-Nicholas (7 May 2006). "BILL'S GUN SHOP". Home Media Retailing. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
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