HARDCORE

When his teenage daughter Kristin disappears on a church-sponsored trip to California, Midwestern businessman Jake VanDorn (George C. Scott in an explosive, career-best performance) hires a private detective to find her and is horrified when she turns up in a porno. He leaves his structured, Calvinist life in Grand Rapids, Michigan for the seedy streets of Los Angeles to find her, and becomes enmeshed in a culture of strip clubs, neon lights, and cheap sex. As Jake gets ever closer to finding Kristen, Schrader masterfully weaves questions of faith, shame, sin, and virtue into his dark journey. Schrader, who was born in Grand Rapids and raised in a strict Calvinist household, has described HARDCORE as a film about his father. 

Awards & Nominations

Nominee - Golden Bear, Berlin Film Festival

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