Review of Hardcore

Hardcore (1979)
10/10
Brutally honest, disturbing drama
5 February 1999
George C. Scott gives one of his best performances as a respected, religious, businessman who sees his daughter off for a church camp and is shocked when she turns up missing. His search leads him to the seedy world of pornography where scummy private detective Peter Boyle finds her in a porno movie. The search leads on as Scott enlists the aid of a hooker.

A moving, powerful look at morality and the wrong turns some of us take - whether we know it or not.

This is a great drama save for an abrupt conclusion (writer/director Paul Shrader also abruptly ended his equally superb "Blue Collar") that is not for those easily offended.
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