Eddie Temple: You're born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake son.
4.5; In spite of its formulaic sentimentality, A Perfect World is a poignant and heartbreaking film filled with moral ambiguity, through which American penal system is examined, and an escaped convict's redemption achieved.