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What relationship develops between the escaped convict and the boy in A Perfect World?
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Clint Eastwood
American actor and director Clint Eastwood, 2008.
In the 1993 film A Perfect World, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, an escaped convict portrayed by Kevin Costner takes a young boy hostage. Despite the circumstances of the abduction, an unlikely bond develops between the two characters as they travel together.1