![]() ![]() To find films with relevant social themes, the viewer will need to look elsewhere. Its thematic message of don't-drink-and-drive has long since been pounded and beaten into Americans, the highly moralistic theme belabored, ordained, and codified in countless other ways. I can think of no reason to recommend "License To Kill". And the film's low-key piano score reeks of cheap elevator music. Script dialogue contains very little subtext. The film's plot is trite and predictable. The head of the other family is an arrogant businessman named Tom Fiske (Don Murray) who is easy to dislike. The family of the victim is highly respectable and squeaky clean. Characters are all cardboard cutouts, lacking any degree of complexity. The story is not particularly entertaining. But a generation later, the film's blunt, too-direct theme is highly off-putting. ![]() Maybe in its day the movie had some merit as a propaganda tool. The courtroom sequence in the second half contains some tension. There's really not a whole lot to say about this low budget made-for-TV drama about two families whose lives intersect as a result of an accident involving a young girl and a drunk driver. The message is a little heavy-handed, but it remains a valid one, however dated the movie itself may be (check out Denzel's glasses!). It's not a spectacular movie - it has its maudlin moments, its result is predictable, and there are times you'll want to kick some of the characters for their obstinacy - but as I say, it's a product of its time, and there are worse ways of spending an hour and a half. Denzel comes into the picture as the extremely overworked but nevertheless competent public prosecutor Martin Sawyer, who is assigned the case against the driver charged with Lynne's death. The family drifts apart as John obsesses over getting the guilty driver convicted of manslaughter Judith sinks into helpless depression and Amy is left lonely and afraid, her world suddenly upside-down. The main characters are the members of the Peterson family - father John (Farentino), mother Judith (Fuller), and younger daughter Amy (Meyers) - each of whom struggles with his or her grief when the elder daughter of the family, Lynne (Vigard), is killed by a drunk driver. Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaijan Republic, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fiji, Finland, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Jamaica, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Lithuania, Macau, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of Croatia, Republic of the Congo, Reunion, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S.Though Denzel Washington is used to promote this movie, it's not really a Denzel vehicle - he doesn't show up until halfway through the movie, and during the second half of the movie, his appearances are staccato and brief.
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