Harsh Times is an hour-by-hour diary of two crazy, unreliable, irresponsible dudes trying to find a way to fit into the same society they hate, facing one hurdle after another until they appear to butcher half of Los Angeles.
Harsh Times
Take A Ride To The Edge
2005 · 1h 56m · R
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
David Ayer
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Harsh Times
Overview
Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime after a job offer from the LAPD evaporates. His best friend is pressured by his girlfriend Sylvia to find a job, but Jim is more interested in hanging out and making cash from small heists, while trying to get a law enforcement job so he can marry his Mexican girlfriend.
Director and cast
- David Ayer Director
- Christian Bale as Jim Luther Davis
- Freddy Rodríguez as Mike Alonzo
- Eva Longoria as Sylvia (as Eva Longoria)
- Chaka Forman as Toussant
- Tammy Trull as Marta
- J.K. Simmons as Agent Richards
- Michael Monks as Agent Hollenbeck
- Samantha Esteban as Letty
- Tania Verafield as Patty
- Noel Gugliemi Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Jim is such a psycho and Mike is such a patsy, we don't care about these guys. We've seen dozens of more interesting head cases in dozens of smarter films.
Harsh Times is so into its own nihilism, it sometimes forgets the humanity beneath the hurt.
Endless scenes of the two guys riding along, venting and cursing and chugging beers play like acting-class exercises, badly written ones at that.
Ayer makes his directing debut with Harsh Times, which is so relentlessly grim that it occasionally goes over the top and invites derision.
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