Plot: Terry Noonan (Sean Penn) returns home to New York’s Hell’s Kitchen after a ten year absence. He soon hooks up with childhood pal Jackie (Gary Oldman) who is involved in the Irish mob run by his brother Frankie (Ed Harris). Terry also rekindles an old flame with Jackie’s sister Kathleen (Robin Wright). Soon, however, Terry is torn between his loyalty to his friends and his loyalties to others.
Director: Phil Joanou
Writing Credits: Dennis McIntyre
Cast: Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, Robin Wright, John Turturro, John C. Reilly, R.D. Call, Joe Viterelli & Burgess Meredith
Music by: Ennio Morricone
Genre: Crime / Drama / Thriller
Budget: $5,000,000
Filming Dates: June 15, 1989 – September 22, 1989
Filming Locations: New York, USA
USA Release Date: September 14, 1990
Box Office Opening Weekend: $282,814 | 14 theaters | $20,201 average
Total Box Office USA: $1,911,542
USA Widest release: 335 theaters.
MPAA rating: R (brief nudity, extreme profanity and violence)
Runtime: 134 minutes
Sean Penn and Robin Wright became a couple during the filming of this movie, had two children over the next three years, broke up, then got back together before finally marrying in 1996.
The movie where Robin Wright met Sean Penn …. Movie has great actors and Robin Wright is great in her role as a cold, hard and strong girl… A role very different from the sweet Kelly and Buttercup… Robin has great scenes where she shows that she’s over being a princess.
Robin Wright fit perfectly in her strong role of having brothers that led an Irish mob from ” Hells Kitchen.”
With her beautiful hair she would have anybodies vote for the perfect ” Irish Spring” commercial.