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Dead Man's Wire
Crime, Drama, Thriller
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to true-crime dramas that turn financial resentment, media attention, and an impossible negotiation into nervy moral ambiguity.
- Tone
- tense, darkly comic, bleak
- Payoff
- unease, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- economic grievance, obsession, institutional power, family strain, public spectacle
- Setting
- late 1970s, Midwestern financial district and hostage-standoff locations
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