Bill's Gun Shop

Bill's Gun Shop
Bill's Gun Shop
Directed by	Dean Hyers
Written by	Dean Hyers; Rob Nilsson
Produced by	Ann Luster; Michael Tabor
Starring	Scott Cooper; John Ashton;
Cinematography	Mickey Freeman
Edited by	Eric Goldstein; Lee Percy
Music by	Chan Poling; Peter Himmelman
Production; company	Dangerous Films
Release date	14 April 2001 (Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Film Festival);
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Bill's Gun Shop is a 2001 American drama film directed by Dean Hyers, starring Scott Cooper and John Ashton.

Cast

Scott Cooper as Dillion McCarthy
John Ashton as Bill Voight
Tom Bower as Tom
James Keane as Delbert
Victor Rivers as Rick
Carolyn Hauck as Marla Voight
Sage Galesi as Arnie Broch
Jacy King as Hillary
Jesse Abbott as Hassan
Rith Afton as Susan McCarthy
M. Cochise Anderson as Shonto Carver
James Craven as Roy
Santino Craven as Andel
Denise Du Maurier as Grandma McCarthy
Michelle Francois as Patricia McCarthy
Lolita Lesheim as Wanda Gomez

Release

The film premiered at the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Film Festival on 14 April 2001.^[1]

Reception

Colin Covert of the Star Tribune rated the film 3.5 stars out of 4 and wrote that the film "combines solid technique, knuckle-biting suspense and sharply etched human relationships."^[2]

Dennis Harvey of Variety wrote, "Never convincing, drama delivers heavy-handed ironies along with alternately witty/hackneyed dialogue, plus too much in-joke cineaste referencing."^[3]

Eric D. Snider of DVD Talk rated the film 1 star out of 5 and wrote, "Bill's Gun Shop is a truly bad movie that has, somewhere deep beneath its odd subplots and sidetracks, a reasonably good idea."^[4]

Justin-Nicholas Toyama of Home Media Retailing wrote, "Underdeveloped character relationships discredit a cogent, though thin plot. The romantic interest is grossly underplayed and superfluous."^[5]

References

^ Covert, Colin (13 April 2001). "THIS `GUN' FOR HYERS Local director hits the target with his debut at the Minneapolis/St. Paul film festival". Star Tribune. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
^ Covert, Colin (13 April 2001). "BILL'S GUN SHOP". Star Tribune. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
^ Harvey, Dennis (26 October 2001). "Bill's Gun Shop". Variety. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
^ Snyder, Eric D. (5 July 2006). "Bill's Gun Shop". DVD Talk. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
^ Toyama, Justin-Nicholas (7 May 2006). "BILL'S GUN SHOP". Home Media Retailing. Retrieved 8 October 2023.

External links

Bill's Gun Shop at IMDb
Bill's Gun Shop at Rotten Tomatoes

[1] Covert, Colin (13 April 2001). "THIS `GUN' FOR HYERS Local director hits the target with his debut at the Minneapolis/St. Paul film festival". Star Tribune. Retrieved 8 October 2023.

[2] Covert, Colin (13 April 2001). "BILL'S GUN SHOP". Star Tribune. Retrieved 8 October 2023.

[3] Harvey, Dennis (26 October 2001). "Bill's Gun Shop". Variety. Retrieved 8 October 2023.

[4] Snyder, Eric D. (5 July 2006). "Bill's Gun Shop". DVD Talk. Retrieved 8 October 2023.

[5] Toyama, Justin-Nicholas (7 May 2006). "BILL'S GUN SHOP". Home Media Retailing. Retrieved 8 October 2023.

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