Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Movie review - "Handgun" (1983) ****

 Tony Garnett produced a lot for Ken Loach. He directed this but it feels like a Loach movie - or, more accurately, a Garnett movie! It's a look at gun culture in the US. Karen Young is lovely and heartbreaking as a school teacher who gets raped by a walking red flag, but it was the times back then.

This is extremely well done. Karen Young is sensational - heartbreakingly naive, then traumatised. 

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