At a time when many of us may feel like we’re being systematically shafted by big business and powerful financial institutions, it’s natural that some of us might feel justified in seeking retribution against them for their deceitful actions. Such was also the case in February 1977, when an aggrieved borrower sought potentially deadly vengeance against the president of an Indianapolis mortgage company, as seen in this fact-based comedy-drama-thriller from director Gus Van Sant. When Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård), a mentally challenged borrower, felt financially betrayed by a lender he…
“His revolution was televised.”
In 1977, former real estate developer Tony Kiritsis puts a dead man's switch on himself and the mortgage banker who did him wrong, demanding $5 million and a personal apology.
- Status
- Released
- Original Language
- English
- Production
- Elevated Films, Balcony 9 Productions, RNA Pictures, TPC, Sobini Films, Co Created Media, Copper Island, Last Mile Productions, Wrong Turn Productions, SIPUR, Construction Film, Streamline Global, Pressman Film, Space Pilot Media, WME Independent, Pinstripes, Film Manufacturers, LB Entertainment, Edith Productions, YO Productions, Filmhedge, Sillen Productions, Punch Once, Eterna, Notorious Productions Film Fund, VL Entertainment, Raised by Wolves Pictures
- Budget
- $13M
- Box Office
- $2.25M
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Back in 1977, Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård) took the law into his own hands by brazenly kidnapping the son of the owner of a mortgage company that he felt had left him high, dry and broke. Now we are not taking about a child here, Richard (Dacre Montgomery) is a married adult and father who is frog-marched out of his building with a shotgun tied to his head. They even pinch a police car to drive to his explosives-riddled apartment where he will hold his hostage until he gets $5 millions in compensation and a written apology from M.L. Hall (Al Pacino) whom he blames for his woes. Meantime,…
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In 1977, former real estate developer Tony Kiritsis puts a dead man's switch on himself and the mortgage banker who did him wrong, demanding $5 million and a personal apology.
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