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| Directed by | Paul Schrader |
| Produced by | Deepak Nayar |
| Written by | Paul Schrader |
| Starring | Woody Harrelson Kristin Scott Thomas Lauren Bacall Lily Tomlin Willem Dafoe |
| Music by | Anne Dudley |
| Cinematography | Chris Seager |
| Editing by | Julian Rodd |
| Distributed by | Kintop Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 10 August 2007 (UK) November 2007 (USA) |
| Running time | 107 min |
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| Language | English |
| Budget | £ 6000.000 (estimated) |
| Preceded by | Light Sleeper (1992) |
The Walker is a drama film that was written and directed by Paul Schrader and was released in 2007. It is a British-American independent production and was proclaimed to be the latest installment in Schrader's "night workers" series of films, starting with Taxi Driver in 1976, and then followed by American Gigolo in 1980 and Light Sleeper in 1992. The Walker shares a similar plot to that of American Gigolo.
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The Walker is about a Washington, D.C.-based homosexual professional escort for woman socialites, who is charged with a murder.
The film features Woody Harrelson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily Tomlin, and Lauren Bacall.
It received positive critical reviews in its premiere run in the Berlin, Sydney, and Cambridge film festivals. The Walker was sent right to DVD due to poor ratings but played in a independent film theater for two weeks in Dorris, California
The film received mixed reviews from critics. As of 7 December, 2007, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 51% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 39 reviews.[1] On Metacritic, the film had an average score of 55 out of 100, based on 7 reviews.[2]
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