Review of A Perfect World (1993) by Luke W — 01 Jun 2011

This is probably one the best performances of Kevin Costner's career as an escape convict who bonds with his eight year old hostage Phillip while on the run. Costner's character Butch Haynes soon finds out that the boy wasn't allowed to do much of anything fun at home and gives him an adventurous ride, letting him do all the things his stifling and overbearing religious mother would never let him do.

It's a great story about what is lacking in the boy's life when the father is not there and how that is leading to him struggling with his own identity and becoming emasculated by his mother and sisters.