Tank

This enjoyable nonsense stars James Garner as a career military man (and private owner of a Sherman tank) who ends up on the wrong side of a redneck sheriff (G.D. Spradlin) by interfering in a bullying deputy's treatment of a prostitute. The corrupt lawman gets his revenge by arresting Garner's teenage son (C. Thomas Howell) on a phony drug charge and locking him away on a brutal prison farm. After taking some lumps there, the poor kid's dad decides to haul out his prized tank and do a little rearranging of the terrain. While the plot sounds like some antiauthority potboiler from the early '70s and the characters are all stick figures, Garner's golden warmth gives this movie some nice dimension. Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky (Victory at Entebbe). The DVD release has a standard full frame (reduced from its original format), scene index, and English, Spanish, and French soundtracks and subtitles. --Tom Keogh

Movie Details

Cast: James Garner, Shirley Jones, C. Thomas Howell
MPAA Rating: PG
Running time: 110 min
DVD Aspect Ratios: 1.33:1

DVD International release dates:
North America: Dec 28, 04