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Some people live life blow by blow.
Johnny Walker is a cowboy and a boxer. He is very shy and a bit of a fool. He is in love with Ruby, but he cannot tell her. He is also a bit old to keep on boxing, but its the only thing he does well.
Homeboy
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Homeboy: tout dans sa vie est un combat, Mahalle Çocuğu, Chance de Vencer, A hallgatag bunyós, Наше момче, 홈보이, Свой парень, 铁拳浪子, Swój chłopak, Свій хлопець
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France
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07 Sep 1989
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Germany16
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27 Nov 2021
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France12
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09 Sep 2009
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France10
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France
24 Aug 1988
- Theatrical
09 Sep 2009
- Physical10 DVD
27 Nov 2021
- Digital12 Prime Video
Germany
07 Sep 1989
- Theatrical16
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24 Aug 1988
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This is a film that features a scene where Christopher Walken, in a long black coat and fake beard, being chased by a pair of hasidic Jewish bodyguards, yells 'woah, woah!' loudly while knocking over a fruit cart, but it's not a comedy.
This is a film that, if you are a Bob Dylan fan (particularly late-era) you probably owe it to yourself to check out, given how much he loved it.
This is a film that's a genuine little curiosity, directed by cinematographer Michael Seresin and written (under a pen name) by Rourke, a few years before he quit acting to take up boxing, suggesting......? what sort of undercurrents? It's a film where his then-wife Debra Feuer (To Live…
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"It all boils down to one thing: Take care of yourself. Cause if you don’t, you’re just gonna die and be nobody."
A passion project for Mickey Rourke - he began a proper boxing career a few years later, and would revisit very similar material in The Wrestler - Homeboy is more of a stylised mood piece than a typical narrative feature. You appreciate the aesthetic and atmosphere (courtesy of director Michael Seresin, Alan Parker's cinematographer), but the plot is negligible to the point of abstraction. While I appreciated the experience, I can understand why many people wouldn't.
Talkin' Walken: Walken isn't really a villain here, he's portrayed more as a well-meaning bad influence on Rourke's character. Wesley is morally…
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"Some people live blow by blow."
Mickey Rourke stars (and wrote, under the alias Eddie Cook) as Johnny Walker, a small-time boxer with a brain injury. Christopher Walken plays Wesley Pendergass, a boxing promoter with cloudy morals.
A very quiet drama, one that flew way under the radar at the time it was released. It is a great showcase for both actors though. Rourke is definitely playing against type as a quiet, banged up boxer. Walken is smarmy and in your face. The story is fine, it's the performances that make the movie.
I wonder if this is the role that inspired Rourke to pursue a boxing career, the one that left his face the way it is today?
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“Maybe he didn’t wanna get up?”
A sneaky concoction; went in anticipating a straight ahead sports movie and instead got a fairly formless hangout film that asks you to empathize with an assortment of losers, lowlifes and addicts wandering around Philly and the Jersey shore. It’s a movie almost entirely comprised of textured digressions, and your mileage with that alone will definitely vary. Toss in the fact that Mickey Rourke is going Full Method as a punch drunk boxer looking to die in the ring (this is allegedly the passion project that led him to actually pursue a failed fighting stint). But then you also have Chris Walken doing existential monologues about dinosaurs at the beach, so maybe it all…
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Uses that 70s Hollywood Left naturalism to snapshot an alcy denim drifter. Too much actual boxing for me (I'm the sad girl on the merry-go-round at the end) but all toward a good moral.
A nice parable for those of us who've given our whole lives to one discipline, however questionable, and don't know how to do anything else.
If you like Rourke & Walken (as themselves), cheap hotels, rainy streets, neon, liquor and lonesome cowboy music, this is that movie.
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Lone directorial effort from accomplished cinematographer Michael Seresin (Midnight Express, Angel Heart, Angela’s Ashes, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, War for the Planet of the Apes) was written by its star Mickey Rourke under the pseudonym Eddie Cook.
It could’ve used some tighter editing, as it does tend to drag in places, but for the most part the story does draw you in. Rourke plays a quiet and troubled boxer whose better days are behind him, but he’s still trying to punch his way to the promised land. He is befriended by a two-bit, flamboyant, fast-talking hustler played by Christopher Walken (in one of his more subtle, interesting performances) who uses Rourke’s sense… -
If someone were to tell me that there was a film with Walken and Rourke (in his prime) doing a boxing movie together, I would’ve immediately thought this was the greatest idea ever. Turns out I’d be wrong though. This is a slog. A fucking boring mess. Two hours of pretty much nothing.
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“You think I could’ve been good?”
HOMEBOY was a fixture on the racks at my childhood video store. The store had some generic name like International Video, but I called it Wolfman's because I thought the guy who owned it was a part-time werewolf. I didn't even know his real name. I just called him Wolfman. He liked me because I was a kid who loved real movies--I'd rent about twelve a week. Most of his clientele were scraggly old timers who disappeared behind those saloon doors off in the corner and came out with an armload of big porno boxes.
Anyhow, HOMEBOY was always there. Never rented. It was sad. I always felt bad for HOMEBOY. It was like…
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During his peak in the 1980s, Mickey Rourke surprised with Homeboy for which he wrote the script. Homeboy is an atypical Mickey Rourke 1980s movies in which he plays a 2nd rate boxer who'll never run with the big boys because he is undisciplined and a alcoholic (apparently Mickey had the ability to foretell his own real future...). Micky befriends Wesley (Christopher Walken) a thief and falls in love with a beautiful carnival owner Ruby (Debra Feuer).
Homeboy is a little gem with quirky performances from both Mickey Rourke and Christopher Walken. A must see for any Mickey Rourke fan.
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Mickey Rourke had dinner with Christopher Walken during the filming of Heavens Gate and expected some serious conversation to go down, but instead Walken started talking about dinosaurs sprouting wings and flying to outer space, and Mickey decided to write their conversation into this movie 🦖🐥🪐
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Always loved this film. Mickey did The Wrestler more than a decade before here but with a boxer, kind of. He wrote it. Alan Parker's director of photography directed this one. Michael Seresin's only film too. Mickey plays Johnny Walker, an aging boxer, heavy drinker, lonely, quiet and one punch away from being punch drunk dead. He meets a starving con man in Chris Walken that wants him to make a heist with him. Walken doing his song and dance bit is funny shit. He also meets a very pretty girl that works in an amusement park, Mickey's own ex girlfriend Debra Feuer. Everyone's at the end of their rope here. First time I've seen this one in such a…