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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Lions Gate
EAN: 0012236117285
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 20, 2001
Running Time: 93 minutes
Sales Rank: 29124
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 09/05/2006 Run time: 93 minutes Rating: R
Amazon.com:
When Sarah (Neve Campbell) strikes up a conversation with a sad-eyed man called Alex (William H. Macy) at her therapist's office, she asks, 'Are you one of those middle-aged guys who's tired of his marriage and thinking maybe a beautiful young thing could help him out?' She's right, but the source of Alex's depression is far from typical: he's a second-generation hit man who wants out, but his mom and dad won't let him quit.
Donald Sutherland makes Alex's laconic and utterly monstrous father the most frightening parent since John Huston in Chinatown. A series of flashbacks show how he introduced Alex to his trade, beginning with shooting squirrels in the woods. We never find out whether Alex's father has mob connections, and the fact that it's just a business to him ('This one's a big job, lots of moola, I'll buy your mother a Lexus') makes him all the more chilling. Alex's mother (the steely Barbara Bain) knows all about the family business, but his wife (Tracey Ullman) thinks he runs a mail-order company, and the only person he confides in is a therapist (John Ritter). When he meets and falls for Sarah, Alex realizes that he alone can stand up to his father, and he needs to act before his own son becomes the next apprentice.
Henry Bromell's debut film as a writer-director probes the same dark corners of the middle-aged male psyche as American Beauty and The Sopranos. Alex's tormented life is a symbol of the damage that parents can inflict on their children, and Bromell imbues his story with a tragic inevitability. Panic received a shamefully limited theatrical release, in spite of its rare combination of a great script and brilliant performances. It deserves to be rediscovered and appreciated by a much larger audience on home video. --Simon Leake
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Panic
William Macy, Donald Sutherland, Barbara Bain, Neve Campbell, John Ritter, and the rest the great cast make the movie. The story is decent, but it is the acting that makes it worthwhile. Macy plays a complicated man that not only runs an online business, but is a hitman for his father, played by Sutherland, as well. His psychologist, played by Ritter, is understandably upset when Macy first tells him his professions. This isn't Macy's only problems. He seems disturbed over his life and looks for ... Read More
Rating:  - "I sell mail order lawn ornaments and kitchen geegaws out of my house . . . and kill people"
William H. Macy nails it again. Another vehicle for his quietly desparate middle-aged man character. This time he is the junior partner in a father/son murder-for hire business (father is done well by the remotely creepy Donald Sutherland).
At mid-life, Macy's character decides he doesn't want to do it anymore, and seeks professional counseling. The psychologist turns out to be played by John Ritter, who turns in a fine performance. He is very likeable, and I really enjoyed seeing ... Read More
Rating: - Good but with faults
This is actually a fine film; far from first-rate, but a solid 3 on a scale of one to four. The acting is excellent; Macy can do no wrong. But there are shortcomings in the writing. There is gratuitous sex throughout, for example, and the ending is contrived and predictable. Yes, it's film noir. And not at all the "black comedy" Maltin describes. In short, this is worth your time, unless you'd rather watch something truly serious or funny.
Rating: - Solid
William H Macy stars as a hitman that wants to leave the business that his father built. He's not a very happy man despite a loving wife and a young child, and seeks the attention of a young woman whom he met a as a fellow patient at the therapist office...
Things get heated when he finds out his next job is to kill the therapist or his father will expose his secret life and destroy his marriage.
This is a very good film. Not such much action, but a good script that ... Read More
Rating: - AWESOME MOVIE JUST AWESOME
This movie stars william h. macy as a hitman and may be his best acting performance ever. This movie is a true classic.
Macy has a wife(tracy ullman) and a sort of weird kid(kid from many scary movies, just can't remember). The kid may be my favorite character.
Macy's dad(donald sutherland) is a hitman also and got his son into the biz. His son doesn't want to be a hitman anymore and starts talking to a psychiatrist(john ritter).
Now I know that you are ... Read More
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