The Company You Keep
The Company You Keep
R | 04 April 2013 (USA)
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A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.

Reviews
Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.
Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
lonecone Mr. Redford had a message here that has never been heard.
johnbold01 Slow paced, unbelievable plot and surprisingly weak performances by all. Don't waste your time.
Floated2 The Company You Keep stars Robert Redford (Jim Grant) as a public-interest lawyer and widower living quietly with young daughter Isabel in the Upstate New York town of Saugerties. Quiet for him turns to upheaval with the capture of Sharon Solarz (Susan Sarandon), the most-wanted radical Weatherman fugitive who has been living underground. Aggressive Albany reporter Ben (Shia LaBeouf), using his connection to former college friend and junior FBI agent Diana (Anna Kendrick), gets access to Sharon and clues to Grant, another fugitive, who lives under an assumed name. The Company You Keep is relatively a slow paced political drama but within the final act, the film does pick up and becomes an entertaining watch. Surrounding with a great cast, the film succeeds at that aspect as there are many characters given small roles.
Fahd Shakir The biggest problem with the movie is that the reporter role seems forced and he's just not that interesting compared to the others. The time spent on his obnoxious sleuthing might have been better spent on developing Mimi's character. Redford and Christie seemed to have no chemistry in their eventual meet up scene. They don't interact so much as they spout plot points and backstory at each other in the cabin, and there seems to be nowhere near enough desperation in Redford, who is ostensibly a parent on the verge of never again seeing his daughter. Susan Sarandon's character could also have been fascinating - it's her somewhat inexplicable desire to surrender that sets the whole story off after all. Her motivations might have been better developed than simple and somewhat pointless exposition to a random reporter. And why would the FBI decide to let her give an interview in the first place? How does it benefit them in any way? Overall, it seems like the journalist angle felt shoehorned in to artificially add mystery. Remove all of that, and there could have been brilliantly powerful scenes depicting their struggles between their idealism and their wizened reality.