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THE CULTURAL GOOFBALLS ON WHICH I AM CURRENTLY HOPPED UP

Thursday, February 17, 2011

THE GUARDIAN (David Green, 1984)





Part 3 in our series of crappy VHS tapes I found in a box on the street, Martin Sheen and Louis Gosset Jr star in the made for TV Masterpiece, The Guardian! After a murder on the stairs, a rape in the basement and some jehovahs witnesses in the air vents, Martin Sheen and the other residents of a fancy Manhattan apartment block decide to hire a full time security man. They end up with John Mack, who turns out to be a draconian fascist all too happy to smoke some junkie punk for trespassing. Which makes liberal Martin Sheen feel less than wholistic. Conflict ensues...

You really just gotta watch this for Louis Gosset Jr. He dresses sharp as fuck and just totally rules with his black fascist intensity. Particularly when he says they gotta cancel all deliveries, and an old lady says "but I like to get milk delivered for my cat", and Lou draws breath and gets this look in his eye and says all intense "I'll see you get your milk"...

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