Courage (1986) Reviews

• Great drama

  martin_humble2004-04-16

  Based on a true story and what a story that is! Sophia Loren stars as the mother in a family of four. One of her two sons are a drug addict -more and more Loren is drawn into a world completely different from what she known. Suddenly she is in the middle of the drug trade in New York. Loren acts beautifully and believable and together with a great supporting cast with actors as Hector Elizondo "Courage" comes out as a very realistic drama. Director Kagan handles the story with respect. As it is a true story it also should be this way, and in the end "Courage" is a great drama about courage, a drama about an ordinary family caught up in a grim reality. Great acting, great story. Recommended!

• made an impact on me

  lisamorandi2015-12-04

  I was a teenager in high school when this film came out. I watched it on television but, unlike the reviewer that talked about the scene of the baby being killed being cut, when I watched the film on television, they showed that scene. The movie starts out with two men getting out of a car in Miami and pulling something large out of the trunk hidden under blankets (you don't know it's a shotgun). They go into a house across the street and you hear yelling about giving them the drugs or money and one of the men stating to the other to "go get it done" and then you hear a gunshot. Then the camera goes inside and you see the parents huddled in the living room screaming and crying and they pan to the baby's room and there's a huge hole in the crib. I think this is why I remembered this movie, it was such a shocking scene, it took my breath away. It showed the true brutality of drug dealers. I vaguely remember the rest of the movie, but I do know that Sophia Lauren was excellent and brings down a huge Columbian drug lord. Obviously, if I remember it to this day, it was a good story! I thought of this movie today when we talked about a show about a Columbian drug lord story he's been following on Netflix. I'd really like to see this movie again.

• A scene from this movie was shot in my house.

  ranger001162015-05-02

  A scene from this movie was shot in my house, It was the scene where the baby of the young drug dealer couple was killed with a shotgun in it's crib, To get revenge for a drug deal gone bad. This scene is left out of some not full movie versions. It did appear in the TV miniseries version in 1986. The film makers wanted to either show the baby being killed or show the baby after it was killed ? But the Network censored it and did not let them put that in the movie. My house got picked just by the film makers driving down my street and seeing it and coming to the door to ask if we would do it (for $500) I think this may be the only movie with a scene in it where a baby is shot ? They paid $300 dollars to rent a Mercedes to park in the driveway during the shoot. The address of the House is 430 Alcazar Ave, Coral Gables, Florida 33134. (A suburb of Miami, Fl.) I do not live there now, But I did from 1959 to 1991. I can Not find any full length of this movie on line, But can fond cop's for sale. Thomas Buyea, Miami, Fl. ranger00116@outlook.com