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Chuck brought sorrow to his family when he shot his father who is now a semi-invalid. After 15 years of self destruction, he returns home to seek forgiveness.Chuck brought sorrow to his family when he shot his father who is now a semi-invalid. After 15 years of self destruction, he returns home to seek forgiveness.Chuck brought sorrow to his family when he shot his father who is now a semi-invalid. After 15 years of self destruction, he returns home to seek forgiveness.
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- (as Thomas Mills Wood)
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I have recently been watching Patrick Swayze's DVD's and Videos. I am very much into his acting. I think Tiger is really a very touching story about a son who created a lot of trouble for his family, he got rehabilitated and wanted to go back home and make up for his trouble he had caused. I cry when I watch this story. I think this has happened in a lot of families in the United States. I think Patrick Swayze is very good. Of course, I think he is good in everything I have seen him act in. In my estimation this is a very tear jerker. I would watch this anyday, and cry when I watch it. There very little violence in it and I give it a top rating. Of course, Patrick Swayze is number one in my book for everything so far I have seen.
I am surprised how harsh these people on IMDb are towards this great film. Just shows you how critical people can be and perhaps even a bit cynical. I was moved by this film, from the sad theme that plays in the beginning, to swayze's performance which I must agree carries the film. I was very well acted, and the emotions all the characters feel are real. even the annoying unforgiving sister, some part of me thinks that well, I can understand why she feels the way she does towards tiger. He did a lot of bad things. I was very sad for him, the scene when he meets his mom for the first time in years was so moving, I almost teared up. You just really see that he wants to change his life, one small step at a time, even getting a job as a checkout clerk at the local store, as lowly as it is he wants to change his life and you cant help but realize how true to life this really is. it touches home in many ways. the only one who understands him are his friend and old flame, who was beautiful and relatable. She like tiger is remembered for having a rather sordid reputation, she used to sleep around with the jocks and was the town whore I suppose. But both of them need those second chances, I felt bad when he decided to leave her and the kids, and that he almost commits suicide....it was just such a sad sad story but a beautiful one, and anyone who cant enjoy this, who cant see how hurt families can be and I suppose I can understand this story myself. If your a cynic or a critic, or both, don't watch this. If your an actual human with a heart and love smaller scale character drama's about family forgiveness and redemption, watch this. You wont be disappointed.
Director Chaudhri's foreign birth comes through loud and clear in this mess of a movie. Swayze's Tiger Warsaw has supposedly done something so terrible it has turned his entire family against him, but it's never made clear exactly what this horrible deed was. Peeping Tom, maybe? When he meets up with an old hometown buddy their reaction to each other can only be described as homosexual, but nothing further in that direction develops. There is also another odd and brief scene in a bar where he is accosted by another old classmate who is now a cross-dresser. I can only assume this kind of stuff has some meaning in India or Pakistan, but it makes no sense in an American movie. Which is obviously what the studio thought since they premiered it outside of the USA. The only good things about the movie are the cool motorcycle jacket Swayze wears throughout, and the bitchin' '68 black Road Runner he drives.
Paced akin to that of a funeral, Tiger Warsaw sees the loveable Patrick Swayze trapped in time as a 70s greaser coming home in a melodramatic tale of reconciliation. There is no other reason to seek this out outside of Swayze, who broods sentimentality throughout the movie with an unshakeable boyish charm, he's just been saddled with a truly terrible screenplay. Drifting drearily along until, with about 10 minutes to go, it ends in a rushed wrap, as though somebody suddenly realized that time was up. It's mainly just a series of encounters with no oomph or style while Amin Q. Chaudhri's direction leaves most of the film completely incomprehensible with poorly lit and uncomfortably long shots dominating the runtime. If I can give it any form of praise outside of its main star, some of the songs on the soundtrack do slap but, other than that, Tiger Warsaw is a fraught movie that lurches between trauma and tearjerker. Driving towards a predictable conclusion, carrying the dubious message that matrimonial bliss and domestic harmony is the ultimate aspiration.
A lot of people didn't enjoy this, but I did. It shows a real life situation that can & does happen in any Family. Hardly any sex, swearing, drug takihg & no violence. Give it a go & have a watch if you haven't seen it. Patrick has done a lot better but when he shows his sensitive side I think he is a much better actor.
Did you know
- TriviaThe restaurant that looks like it has a front of train painted on building is actually a real train engine in front of the restaurant.
- GoofsThe scene where Tiger has a breakdown while stopped at the railroad crossing was filmed on Pitt Street in Sharon, PA. Pitt Street is a one way street and the cars are all going the wrong way on the street.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: The Worst Films of 1988 (1989)
- SoundtracksDirty Water
Written by Ed Cobb
Published by Equinox Music
Performed by The Standells
Master Recording Courtesy of AVI Record Productions, Inc.
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- Gross US & Canada
- $422,667
- Gross worldwide
- $422,667
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