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The Onion Field
What happened in the onion field is true. But the real crime is what happened after.
What happened in the onion field is true. But the real crime is what ...
Crime, Drama - 1979
The Onion Field
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An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loopholes could keep his kidnappers from receiving justice, and his partner is haunted by overwhelming survivor's guilt.
Director:
,
Harold Becker
Cast:
,
Ronny Cox
,
James Woods
,
Ted Danson
,
John Savage
,
Franklyn Seales

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The Onion Field
The Onion Field
(1979)
An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loopholes could keep his kidnappers from receiving justice, and his partner is haunted by overwhelming survivor's guilt.
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Runtime:
122 min
Release date:
9 Sep 1979
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
1 win & 3 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

rotten:
The Onion Field is a serious and most uncompromising movie. It lacks, however, the sort of disciplined craft that might have made it a powerful and affecting one.
– Richard Schickel,
TIME Magazine,
10 Sep 2011
fresh:
James Woods as the near-psychotic Powell is chillingly effective, creating a flakiness in the character that exudes the danger of a live wire near a puddle.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
fresh:
It's the usual heavy Wambaugh brew: police procedure closely observed without a trace of romanticism, suggesting simply that life in the force is psychological hell.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2006
rotten:
The film is generally crisp and at times exciting, but it's also full of incidents that are only sketchily explained, and minus the all-important narrative thread that might have provided a clear point of view.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
9 May 2005
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