The Company You Keep (2012)

Release date: 2014-07-08
Country: USA|Canada
Language: English
Director: Robert Redford
Production Co: Voltage Pictures, Wildwood Enterprises, Brightlight Pictures
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Rating: 6.4/10
Length: 2h 5min

Storyline

After years in hiding, ex-Weather Underground militant, Nick Sloan, a.k.a. Jim Grant, learns about his old compatriot's arrest for a bank robbery turned deadly in the 1970s, for which he is wanted as an accomplice. This puts the ambitious young local reporter, Ben Shepard, on the scent of a story that exposes Nick as well. As such, Nick goes on the run while taking his daughter to safety. With that accomplished, Nick stays one step ahead of the F.B.I. while pursuing a faint hope to clear his name. Meanwhile, Shepard digs deeper into the case as he discovers the true complexities of another times' determined ideals, even as Nick faces their consequences with another.

Plot Keywords

surveillance, canada, surrender, testimony, professor, lecture hall, backpack, retirement, police chief, art gallery, law, fake id, promise, woods, 11 year old, freedom, memory, loss of wife, death of wife, reference to karl marx

Short Review

Wright stages some very colourful set-pieces, but the film-making never takes wing. It doesn't help that the performances are as broad as any you will find in a pantomime at the Hackney Empire.