Hardcore

When Michigan businessman Jake Van Dorn lets his teenage daughter go on a church trip to California, she never returns. Jake hires a Los Angeles investigator, Andy Mast, to look for her, and turns up she is in a recent pornographic film. Both stunned and increasingly disappointed with the police, Jake travels to California where he poses as an adult-film producer in hopes of finding someone who's seen his little girl.

Duration: 109
Production year: 1979
Country: United States of America
Subtitles: Subtitles: Portuguese

Paul Schrader

Paul Schrader was born on July 22, 1946, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. Born and raised in an ultra-puritan community of local Dutch Calvinists, he didn’t have access to the world of cinema until entering college, whence he was forbidden to watch movies by his parents. He entered the university to study theology, but later decided to switch to cinemhe started working as a film critic and, at the same time, studying Film Theory. In 1972, he wrote the celebrated book Transcendental Style In Film: Ozu, Dreyer Bresson and began writingscreenplays.

After the success, in 1976, of the screenplay for Taxi Driver, Schrader started directing his own films. His most recent feature films First Reformed (2017), The Card Counter (2021) and Master Gardener (2022) have been described by Schrader as parts of a modern trilogy.

Original title: Hardcore

Paul Schrader

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