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Released Year: 1988
Runtime: 107 minutes
Directors: Christopher Cain
Casts: Tom Cruise, Geoffrey Blake, Terence Stamp, Dermot Mulroney, Charlie Sheen, Victor Izay, Casey Siemaszko, Terry O'Quinn, Kiefer Sutherland, Jack Palance, Patrick Wayne, Emilio Estevez, Lou Diamond Phillips, Lisa Banes, Sharon Thomas Cain, Alice Carter, Brian Keith, Thomas Callaway, Danny Kamin, Sam Gauny, Cody Palance, Gadeek, Craig Erickson, Jeremy Lepard, Richela Renkun, Pat Finn-Lee, Gary Kanin, Forrest Broadley
IMDB: Young Guns (1988)
Ratings: 
(6 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)
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(6 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)Loading...Reviews
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The New York Times -
Young Guns is best watched in the playful, none-too-serious spirit in which it was made. Though the film concentrates reverentially on its young stars, it also includes good performances from a few grown-ups, notably Terry O'Quinn as a lawyer and Jack Palance as the story's wild-eyed villain.
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Chicago Sun-Times -
Considering how tidy and self-aware most such Hollywood projects are, any movie that can give Phillips' Mexican-Indian a monologue in which he painfully recounts the massacre only he survived and then blithely rejoices in idiot gunfire is a movie you have to respect. [12 Aug 1988, p.35]
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Los Angeles Times -
To say Young Guns is one of the best big Westerns of the '80s doesn't mean much: Westerns have been almost moribund since 1976. But it does hint at this movie's surprising vitality, bloody ebullience and violent impetuosity-qualities it shares with crazy little Billy. [12 Aug 1988, p.11]
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San Francisco Chronicle -
Young Guns is really a modern action movie in the revenge mode, disguised as a western. But with all its faults, it more or less works. Palance is a great heavy, Estevez makes an off-the-wall hero, and there's usually enough happening on screen to keep you interested. [12 Aug 1988, p.E3]
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TV Guide Magazine -
YOUNG GUNS is simply not a very good movie--western or otherwise. Fusco's script provides little character development and muddies the narrative with some unlikely supporting characters. Still, it proved to be popular enough to lead to a television spinoff and a sequel in 1990.
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Young Guns (1988)
A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.
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Young Guns (1988)
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Information
Released Year: 1988
Runtime: 107 minutes
Directors: Christopher Cain
Casts: Tom Cruise, Geoffrey Blake, Terence Stamp, Dermot Mulroney, Charlie Sheen, Victor Izay, Casey Siemaszko, Terry O'Quinn, Kiefer Sutherland, Jack Palance, Patrick Wayne, Emilio Estevez, Lou Diamond Phillips, Lisa Banes, Sharon Thomas Cain, Alice Carter, Brian Keith, Thomas Callaway, Danny Kamin, Sam Gauny, Cody Palance, Gadeek, Craig Erickson, Jeremy Lepard, Richela Renkun, Pat Finn-Lee, Gary Kanin, Forrest Broadley
IMDB: Young Guns (1988)
Storyline
A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.
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Reviews
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The New York Times -
Young Guns is best watched in the playful, none-too-serious spirit in which it was made. Though the film concentrates reverentially on its young stars, it also includes good performances from a few grown-ups, notably Terry O'Quinn as a lawyer and Jack Palance as the story's wild-eyed villain.
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Chicago Sun-Times -
Considering how tidy and self-aware most such Hollywood projects are, any movie that can give Phillips' Mexican-Indian a monologue in which he painfully recounts the massacre only he survived and then blithely rejoices in idiot gunfire is a movie you have to respect. [12 Aug 1988, p.35]
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Los Angeles Times -
To say Young Guns is one of the best big Westerns of the '80s doesn't mean much: Westerns have been almost moribund since 1976. But it does hint at this movie's surprising vitality, bloody ebullience and violent impetuosity-qualities it shares with crazy little Billy. [12 Aug 1988, p.11]
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San Francisco Chronicle -
Young Guns is really a modern action movie in the revenge mode, disguised as a western. But with all its faults, it more or less works. Palance is a great heavy, Estevez makes an off-the-wall hero, and there's usually enough happening on screen to keep you interested. [12 Aug 1988, p.E3]
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TV Guide Magazine -
YOUNG GUNS is simply not a very good movie--western or otherwise. Fusco's script provides little character development and muddies the narrative with some unlikely supporting characters. Still, it proved to be popular enough to lead to a television spinoff and a sequel in 1990.
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