Bill's Gun Shop

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Bill's Gun Shop
Directed byDean Hyers
Written byDean Hyers
Rob Nilsson
Produced byAnn Luster
Michael Tabor
Starring
CinematographyMickey Freeman
Edited byEric 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
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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

Contents

Cast

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]

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References

  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.