At Close Range is based on a true story, that of the Johnson Gang, who in the late seventies made a healthy business out of stealing tractors in Pennsylvania. It stars Sean and Christopher Penn, features an appearance by Kiefer Sutherland, and has a script written by Nicholas Kazan, who wrote the excellent courtroom drama Reversal of Fortune - all sons of the great and good in Hollywood, though this is of course pure coincidence. The younger Kazan actually steps in father’s footsteps here, by having his hero inform on his villainous dad to the Grand Jury. Nicholas’s father Elia, having busted several of his friends for being Communists, went on to make the popular On the Waterfront, whose proletarian hero undergoes a severe moral crisis before informing on a villainous racketeer.