A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in search of his runaway teenage daughter who’s making hardcore films in the pits of Los Angeles.
"“Oh my God, that's my daughter.”"
Top Billed Cast
George C. Scott
Jake VanDorn
Peter Boyle
Andy Mast
Season Hubley
Niki
Dick Sargent
Wes DeJong
Leonard Gaines
Ramada
Dave Nichols
Kurt
Gary Graham
Tod
Larry Block
Detective Burrows
Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews
J John ChardVerified TMDB Critic
2019-04-22
Nobody makes it. Nobody shows it. Nobody sees it. It's like it doesn't even exist.
Hardcore is written and directed by Paul Schrader and stars George C. Scott, Peter Boyle, Season Hubley, Dick Sargent and Leonard Gaines. Music is by Jack Nitzsche and cinematography by Michael Chapman.
Plot has Scott as a Michigan businessman whose daughter disappears after a church group trip to California. Venturing out to California in search of her, he hires a sleazy private investigator (Boyle) and quickly finds that his daughter has fallen into the seedy X-Rated world of pornography.
It's a very ...
C CinemaSerfVerified TMDB Critic
2026-03-09
George C. Scott makes good with his rather uncharacteristic performance, here. He’s the upstanding businessman “Van Dorn” who is shocked at the sudden disappearance of his teenage daughter. He hires “Mast” (Peter Boyle) to track her down and though he doesn’t find her, he does find some disturbing evidence for her dad that she is starring in some cheap porn movies. Determined to track her down and fetch her back, he tries to glean information from some sex workers by showing them photos and asking questions. They think he’s a cop so clam up, so he concludes a different tack is go...
