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Michael Madsen Was More Than a Tough Guy
He was a great villain, but he shone when showing his softer side
You read that right: Free Willy, the 1993 feel-good drama about an orphan boy named Jesse (Jason James Richter) who befriends an orca trapped in an aquarium and plots to break him out and release him into the ocean. He stood out in hard-edged, often hypermasculine movies by other filmmakers, including Donnie Brasco, playing brutal mob boss Sonny Black, and Sin City, in which he and Mickey Rourke were the cast members who best embodied the spirit of 1940s and ‘50s noir. But the peak of the film’s human story happens earlier when Glenn, who’s been racing around with Annie on the night of the aquarium bust-out, finally locates Jesse, and rather than order him to give up his crazy scheme and go home, he helps him.
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