Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780780631649 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC ISBN: 0780631641 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: August 01, 2000 Running Time: 121 minutes Sales Rank: 38029 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: February 14, 1997
Amazon.com essential video: Director Clint Eastwood's 1997 box-office hit stars himself as Luther Whitney, a highly skilled thief who finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, witnessing the murder of a woman involved in a secret tryst with the U.S. president (played by Gene Hackman). Determined to clear his name, Whitney cleverly eludes a tenacious detective (Ed Harris) while investigating a corruption of power reaching to the highest level of government. Adapted by veteran screenwriter William Goldman from David Baldacci's novel, this thriller balances expert suspense with well-drawn characters and an intelligent plot that's just a pounding heartbeat away from real White House headlines. Absolute Power features the great Judy Davis in a memorable supporting role as the White House chief of staff who desperately attempts to cover up the crime. --Jeff Shannon
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Absolute Power, starring Clint Eastwood, is a well-cast, well-acted, fast-moving story. Good flick, one that can be seen again and again.
Rating: - Don't look for Dirty Harry here
Absolute Power is about corruption - absolute power corrupts absolutely. Eastwood directs himself in this story of a very professional burglar who finds himself trapped in a closet while a murder is committed in the presence of none other than the American President. What is interesting about this fairly predictable plot is that he seems interested in portraying NOT Dirty Harry. The now aging Luther, having done his time and paid his debt to society, wants nothing more than to reconnect with his only child, a very successful attorney. She, on the other hand, disdains his overtures, knowing a tiger cannot change his stripes. The detective on the murder case convinces her to contact Luther; but, not surprisingly, the bad guys have tapped her phone.
Seeing Clint's softer, human side was a pleasure. If you study his real life, you know he is highly intelligent and concerned with the good of others, and it's ... Read More
Rating: - Why would he stab himself?????
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Absolute Power, based on the book, Absolute Power was made in 1997(remember that date). In the movie Clint Eastwood plays a master thief who steals to support his art. He happens to break into a Washington D.C. mansion to burglarize the walk-in safe when he witnesses the murder of a very powerful man's wife through the one-way mirror.
Eastwood directs and produced this movie. One wonders if he was, also, the key grip for the movie, whatever that is.
Remember the date? Guess who was President then. Hint, his initials were W.J.C.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive.
Highly recommended for fans of Clint Eastwood.
Gunner March 2008
Rating: - It has something missing
First, I must say that I am a huge fan of Clint Eastwood, since his early days as the man with no name.....
I bought this movie without even watching it once, I saw the actors list and read the plot on the back of the dvd and thought to myself "This got to be the hell of a movie".
After finishing I didn't think the same. I mean, it has great actors and the story is great but it has something missing for my opinion, things get smooth really easy at the end.
However I haven't regreted the fact of buying it, is a good movie, not just as good as you could imagine.
The caracter played by Eastwood is, opposite to what you may think a great father, and he would do anything to protect his daughter.
Ed Hackman's caracter is a coward hidding behind secret services... I love him when he loses (like in Runaway Jury for example).
Anyway, just watch the movie and since is a Eastwood movie, ... Read More
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