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HottWwjdIam There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

big_country769 I wished this movie would come out on DVD. I was one of the vol. firefighters at one of the shoots they did when they burned the house down. There are a few others I hung out at by my house. The n I saw the movie. I couldn't believe how the greatness of all the actors. It gave the creeps of my small town and the others surrounding me. If you look in the scene, when they are being followed by the law. You can see me and a friend of mine walking in the back ground behind the cruiser. I guess it fit with the scene of two carious people seeing who the law is following. If not. I guess they would have said cut and chased us out of the way.

Attorney Douglas Palaschak I saw this movie some years ago. I also read the book. The man portrayed by Actor Brian Dennehy was Ken McElroy. The town is Skidmore, Missouri, population 200. This is an amazing story. The movie gives everybody different names to avoid lawsuits. McElroy lives a life of crime. He sired perhaps 6 children by several women. He stole pigs and cattle for a living. He shot two locals. The law failed dismally. He even escaped a traffic ticket by pointing a shotgun in the face of a copy. The cop did not complain. On July 10, 1981 the incompetent court continued/ postponed the case once again. McElroy was on trial for shooting a 70 year old man in the neck. He was out on a tiny bail. The farmers immediately held a meeting at 10 a.m. at the American Legion Hall. Within minutes McElroy came to town and went in the bar. This time he was without his gun. Within seconds, the farmers told him to go home. As soon as McElroy stepped in his fancy pickup truck several shots rang out. They killed him. Nobody was ever prosecuted for this assassination. The townsfolk held tight. McElroy's widown immediately reported the crime. She turned back and saw the assassin. She named him to the police. Nobody would corroborate her story.My only fear is that some day some do gooder will re-open this case. Justice was served. Incidentally, while the cops would let McElroy go even when he threatened them with murder and pointed a shotgun right in the face of the cop, these same cops would instead prosecute the farmers for speeding tickets.The law in this town did not work.People don't need police.This story shows you why.

gppays My dad was MURDERED! Nothing else matters and the way they portrayed him in the movie is sick.I think all of you are sick!Ken was a loving husband and father and doted on all us kids and if anyone wants to say something about him I suggest that you say it to my face.the movie and book are both wrong about a lot of things including how the whole town harassed us kids my mom and sisters and i'm tired of listening to you people talk about him now that he's dead and gone.the movie could have shown him as the person he was but that wasn't going to make the stations any money now was it?and that LE in missouri, you weren't even around then so shut up about it OK?

manuel-pestalozzi This is a truly great movie. I picked it off a shelf as a videotape at a clearance sale here in Switzerland, primarily because I knew Cloris Leachman and Marcia Gay Harden to be top American actresses. I was positively surprised and kept the tape.The story, apparently based on true events, is very archaic in character. It has the feel of the Middle Ages, in fact. A farmer with a large, chaotic family terrorises everybody around him, steals pigs from other farmers etc. The intimidated citizens know no other way out than to kill him in a surreptitious and cowardly way and then to drive away his clan, gutting his castle, er, farm, making a vow of silence as to the identity of the murderer. Only, this is supposed to happen in the second half of the twentieth century, in a country that is known for its respect for freedom. But law and order, on which that freedom is based, is not given the slightest chance here.In Broad Daylight appears to be a biased account of what happened somewhere in the Midwest of the USA. The script does not take an easy way out by taking sides but tries to do justice to everyone concerned with surprising subtlety. This could easily be Brian Dennehy's best ever performance. He plays the farmer turned robber baron with a lot of feeling. The man is a terrible bully, a menace and despicable, yes, but he also shows a sense of responsibility, however twisted and perverted, toward his family and love for his numerous offspring. Cloris Leachman proves herself to be a very versatile actress here. She plays a store owner who is the principal aim of the robber baron's wrath and shows much common sense and, when that does not help, bravery, although she is as scared as the others. She tries to bring the man to justice, but the system keeps preventing that by way of a shrewd defense lawyer. So the story builds up to a climax with a bang.Two scenes stand out and are really excellent. The first is the incident which triggers the «war» between the robber baron and the townsfolk. Some members of the farmer's family misbehave in the Candy Store and are mildly reprimanded. At once the situation escalates for no good reason beyond any proportion and it immediately becomes clear, there's no way back. The second scene is of course the murder of the farmer at the steering wheel of his car on a Main Street parking lot – in broad daylight. As the body of the shot man slumps forward, the car's engine revs up and starts shaking and emitting smoke. This goes on for about 20 seconds while all around the people stand silently by. It's ghostly and realistic at the same time.