Hardcore

(Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 9.14.2004)

After making an incredibly visceral, politically-charged directorial debut with the strangely forgotten Blue Collar, Paul Schrader wrote and directed this absorbing, but bizarrely square companion piece to Taxi Driver. Standing-in for Schrader's own Calvinist father (an inspiration Schrader has acknowledged in print), George C. Scott plays a staunchly religious widower from Grand Rapids, Michigan, whose teenaged daughter abandons him -- for a life in porn.

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