Short film

Picture Windows: Armed Response
1995 · 30 min
A chilly, compact chamber piece where domestic comfort curdles into quiet menace, watching privilege rot from the inside.
- Directed by
- Bob Rafelson
- Genres
- Drama, Tv movie
- Starring
- Jim Calvert, Von Flores, Robert Loggia
- Overview
- Part of the anthology series "Picture Windows," Bob Rafelson’s "Armed Response" draws on David Hockney’s Pool with Two Figures to tell the story of a wealthy lawyer whose American Dream shatters when his children plot his murder, forcing hidden family secrets to the surface.
- How it feels
- Dark, tense, melancholic and cynical. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Betrayal, family, greed, class
- Content
- Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Bob Rafelson
- Genres
- Drama, Tv movie
- Starring
- Jim Calvert, Von Flores, Robert Loggia




