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DEAD MAN'S WIRE
Synopsis
On February 8, 1977, Tony Kiritsis entered the office of Richard Hall, president of the Meridian Mortgage Company, and took him hostage with a sawed-off shotgun wired with a “dead man’s wire” from the trigger to Tony’s own neck.
Synopsis
On February 8, 1977, Tony Kiritsis entered the office of Richard Hall, president of the Meridian Mortgage Company, and took him hostage with a sawed-off shotgun wired with a “dead man’s wire” from the trigger to Tony’s own neck.
Our take
Returning auteur Gus Van Sant interrogates justice in this true-story class-war thriller, primed for politically violent times. Nodding to Sidney Lumet’s incendiary Dog Day Afternoon, the film casts Al Pacino as a preening fat-cat banker opposite Bill Skarsgård’s spectacularly combustible antihero.