Patrick Swayze, Liam Neeson, Adam Baldwin

Truman, a Chicago cop, sets out to find the killer of his brother, while another of his brothers, Briar decides to find the killer himself.

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R, 109 min.

Directed by: John Irvin

Release Date: October 20, 1989

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DVD Release Date: October 20, 1998

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  • December 31, 2008
    Hillbillies vs. the mob. Shows you where Patrick Swayze was in his career then. For Liam, this was a far cry from Excalibur.
  • February 5, 2007
    Some of the stuff the hillbilly cousins do to the killers is downright funny.
  • September 27, 2006
    What can i say... Its a Patrick Swayze movie.lol
  • October 18, 2009
    This is a vey predictable yet moderately entertaining story of a hillbilly family in a feud against a mob family. It really is as silly and ridiculous as it sounds, but the 80's camp and cheesiness factors and the fact that Liam Neeson is at his scenery chewing best as one of the...( read more) hillbillies make this an ok movie to watch when nothing else is on.
  • September 4, 2009
    Liam Neeson and Ben Stiller are in it so I NEED 2 SEE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • July 23, 2009
    This action movie isn't too bad, but it is not particularly action-packed, director John Irvin does provide the expected gunplay and macho confrontations. However, despite a surprisingly distinguished cast (also including Helen Hunt and Michael J. Pollard), little distinguishes t...( read more)he film from numerous other revenge stories with a similar outline. This action film is full of action and has some great fight scenes. Daniel Baldwin is great as the villian and look for a young Ben Stiller before he hit his prime.
  • July 9, 2009
    this was so good... if you havent seen it... it should be on the classics 80's list... gold throughout!

    neeson is just plain creepy and stiller is ridiculus.
  • June 5, 2009
    Great family movie, this is how family should stick together!






    Great movie, this is how family should stick together.
  • February 8, 2009
    Director John Irvin must have a real passion for mob movies. He tries his best in both Schwarzenegger's Raw Deal and a few years later with Patrick Swayze's Next of Kin to create a violent, good action film but make it passionate and dramatic and all about crime family vs crime f...( read more)amily. However with Next of Kin he must have fine tuned some of the mistakes from the rather slow moving Raw Deal. Next of Kin is a much better film and perhaps a big part of that is the strong cast of future stars Next of Kin carries. Liam Neeson, Helen Hunt, Ben Stiller, Bill Paxton, and even Patrick Swayze who was really at the height of his career in this film...between Dirty Dancing and Ghost.

    Next of Kin takes a rather liberal view at a group of people not normally dealt with in films...mountain people...or hillbillies if you will. Swayze plays a former country boy who moved to the big city, became a cop, married his love, and is now urbanized himself. His little brother who aims to follow up in his footsteps ends up getting himself murdered by the crime family, Isabella. The rest of his "kin" want Swayze to avenge the death but Swayze is determined to let justice take it's course. Again, much like Raw Deal, Next of Kin is about vengeance and anger and it all bottles up until one big explosion of revenge in the end. The big difference is that Next of Kin stays interesting through the whole movie right up to and including the end and still has some really great action scenes to boot.

    The cast as previously mentioned is very well done fortunately for Mr. Irvin. Swayze plays a convincing cop and mountain boy and him and Helen Hunt have decent chemistry for their brief on screen moments. Adam Baldwin as the blood thirsty villain does a good job (not as good his later performance in Joss Whedon's Serenity (aka Firefly) as Jayne but he is convincing as the bad guy. Ben Stiller's brief role is also quite good as the smarter villain but he doesn't last long. Overall Next of Kin is a decent entry in the eighties action genre. It has it's moments and is worth checking out for those full of nostalgia.
  • January 3, 2009
    blood is thicker than water and kin does sticks together....a good action movie.

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