Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaOne man decides to wage war against a gang of teenage punks besieging an affluent California community. Based on a true incident.One man decides to wage war against a gang of teenage punks besieging an affluent California community. Based on a true incident.One man decides to wage war against a gang of teenage punks besieging an affluent California community. Based on a true incident.
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- Vance Chandler
- (as Thomas Leopold)
Recensioni in evidenza
OUTRAGE does two things very well:
#1- It shows the helplessness that innocent, law-abiding citizens experience when dealing with lawless, psychopathic thugs.
#2- It allows Jim to undergo many indignities and injuries, and to exhaust every possible means within the law, while showing great patience, before lowering the boom, and allowing him to take out the trash.
The final act is sublime!
A superb made-for-TV movie. This is the best Robert Culp movie of all time!...
When the story begins, a group of punk teens are running amok in a nice California neighborhood--pouring loads of garbage into a lady's pool, nearly running over pedestrians, dogs and horses and acting like they are above the law. When one of the folks being menaced by them tries to be constructive and work to have speed bumps and more policing, Jim Kiler (Robert Culp) is attacked by the thugs and they nearly kill him. When the law seem either unable or unwilling to do much of anything, Kiler is backed against the wall and has no other choice but to approach the teens' parents...who don't seem to care in the least. So what is to happen next? Well, considering that the boys go essentially unpunished, you can only assume things will escalate! But Kiler STILL tries very hard to work within the system through much of the movie. Find the film on YouTube and find out for yourself what's next in this family's nightmarish lives.
While the plot might sound quite a bit like "Death Wish", this film came out a year earlier...plus it was set in the suburbs. Additionally, Kiler did NOT react like Bronson did in "Death Wish"-- he didn't go out at night shooting the boys...though considering how awful they were, you certainly wouldn't have blamed his character!
Overall, this is a very well made and exciting film. Culp did a very nice job in the film and it's not just some revenge picture. Plus, it's apparently based on a real case...which adds to the realism. Well worth seeing...and filled with all sorts of funky 70s music!
*** (out of 4)
This made-for-TV gem features Robert Culp playing Jim Kiler, a man who grows tired of the teenage punks wrecking his small town. The police can't do anything because no witnesses step forward but after being ran over, Jim decides to press charges. The trial date is three months ago so the rich teenagers decide to harass Kiler and his family in countless ways, which finally pushes the man over the edge.
OUTRAGE came a year before DEATH WISH so the entire vigilante sub-genre hadn't been beaten to death yet. A movie like this is meant to entertain you for 74 minutes and there's no question that this one does that and there's also no doubt that you're blood is going to be boiling throughout the picture. This was based on a true story but as we all know things are often blown out of proportion or made to look worse than what really happened. I really hope that's true here because it's hard to believe that what we see here actually happened in the way it did because these teenagers and the town had to be without a question some of the dumbest in history.
With such a short running time there's no time for any character development so the reasons behind the teenagers doing this is never explained. I mean, most teens cause a little trouble here and there but what we see in this film is crazy as there's attempted murder, arson, violence towards animals and countless other scenes where they break the law. You have to wonder what they were thinking but as the viewer all of this just makes your blood boil and you hate them even more. The Kiler character is someone you can certainly root for and there's no doubt that he's put up against some great villains.
Culp is certainly entertaining in his role and although he does go over-the-top at times, this here just adds to the entertainment. Marlyn Mason is good as his wife and Beah Richards is great in her small role. The actors playing the punks in the film are all good and help sell their characters. OUTRAGE features a rather wild and over-the-top ending that's not 100% satisfying but there's no question that the movie does its job in keeping you entertained throughout.
I watched this on TV when I was like 8 or 9. I have never seen it again on TV and would like to. Definitely a good one! It's the sort of movie one may catch on a weekday night very late at night and can't stop watching or an afternoon film on a weekend. It's the kind they just don't show anymore.
It is definitely worth seeing!
Marilyn Manson, er, Marlyn Mason rather, plays his fretful, boiled-celery wife, who urges him not to use violence against his sneering nemeses, and who really just wants to move somewhere with decent public services. But The System is getting Culp nowhere, and he's not about to leave his house because of some punk kids and their crazy rock and roll music. And we all know what movie people do when The System fails...(but this is based on a true story, which makes it even better).
It should be noted that while the villainous hooligans do have convenient '70s funk-o-matic "teenage" theme music that warns us when they're up to no good, this film actually ends up treating the age brackets even-handedly (really!). It doesn't make a big generational thing out of it. Kudos for that.
Anyway, if you like dogs (or at least believe in protecting their civil rights, like me), and you like justice, and you like fire, and you like justice for dogs by way of fire, and you think people who skitter nervously out of troubled communities are "too damn soft," then this flick's ethos is up your alley. No, it's not really "good," at least not in any widely recognized sense of the word. There's nothing subtle or understated or clever about it, it's just sort of a feature-length PSA for vigilantism. It does, however, capture the feeling of some memorable scenes in other, beloved works. Remember in Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns when Batman leads the Mutants on horseback to reclaim Gotham City? Remember that scene in A Christmas Story where the kid pounds the bully's face in? Remember how cool that was? Or do you just really hate being looked at funny by your neighbors? Yeah, mon.
Unfortunately, this was a 1973 made-for-TV movie that I just happened to catch at 4am on my local WB affiliate, and it's probably not destined for DVD release. But after being inspired by this film, do you think I'm gonna just sit here and take it!?!
Lo sapevi?
- BlooperAs the young hoodlums are attempting to dog-nap Jim Kiler's dog Oliver by luring him to their hot rod, you can see cleaners working on the outside of Kiler's home (from when the hoodlums threw paint on it). The hoodlums dog-nap Oliver, and Jim Kiler spends all day and night calling for Oliver and wondering where he is. However, never once did Kiler think to ask the cleaners anything, who no doubt must have heard the loud car engine, heard the hoodlums calling Oliver, and seen them take Oliver away. The cleaners also said nothing of the dog-napping.
- Citazioni
Judge William Vernon: [at the hearing] Will the defendant Carl Dibble please rise?
[Carl stands up]
Judge William Vernon: And Mrs. Dibble, if you too, please.
[she stands up]
Judge William Vernon: Carl Dibble, as a result of your change of plea to nolo contendere er no contest to the lesser charge of hit-and-run driving, it is the recommendation of Dr. Jim Cuyler, the victim, to whom this court applied for such recommendation, that you hereby be declared the ward to this court, that your care, custody, and control be placed under the supervision of a county probation officer for a period of one year. In addition, you will pay $250 immediately and your driver's license is hereby suspended for six months. I need hardly remind you what a very lucky young man you are and what a great debt of gratitude you owe to the compassion of Dr. Cuyler. You may be seated.
[Carl and Mrs. Dibble sit down]
Judge William Vernon: Will the defendant Ronald Werner please rise, also his parents?
[they stand up]
Judge William Vernon: And Vance Chandler and his parents, will they rise?
[they stand up]
Judge William Vernon: Ronald Werner and Vance Chandler, in the light of Carl Dibble's change of plea, this court has no choice but to dismiss the charges against you. In other words, by shouldering the responsibility for the act itself, your friend has just taken you two off the hook. To be, that is not a fortunate circumstance. Mr. and Mrs. Chandler, and Mr. and Mrs. Werner, your sons, though they have escaped retribution for the time being, are in deep, deep trouble! You know it and I know it! And if you don't take hold and do something about it, soon, these boys are gonna wind up in prison some day! However, the law has given both parents and children a second chance and I sincerely trust that you will make the most of it.
- ConnessioniRemade as Vite violate (1998)