Dead Man's Wire (2025)
Genre: History / Crime
Duration: 105 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Gus Van Sant
Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Dacre Montgomery and Cary Elwes
IMDb score:
6,5 (7.299)
Releasedate: 9 January 2026
Dead Man's Wire plot
"His revolution was televised."
February 8, 1977, marks the day Tony Kiritsis walks into Richard Hall's office. Hall, a mortgage broker and president of his company, is held at gunpoint and kidnapped by Kiritsis on this fateful day. The world watches in suspense to see how this conflict will end. Tony's demands include five million dollars, an apology from the Hall family, and a lack of prosecution.
Actors and actresses
Tony Kiritsis
Richard 'Dick' Hall
M.L. Hall
Fred Temple
Linda Page
Michael Grable
Mabel Hall
Cameraman
Chief Gallagher
Doreen
Reviews & comments
Fortune
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- 4339 messages
- 2832 votes
I love these kinds of movies with a somewhat crazy story about a crazy person with a crazy idea, and it happens to be true. This film has a nice 70s vibe that I appreciate. The actors are good, and the direction is more than excellent. Al Pacino is in it, but his role is small and negligible, and I wouldn't do it for that anyway. This film simply held my attention from beginning to end with an ambiguous protagonist. A hero, a madman, or a criminal? Or is that office crime? I like those themes. Besides, I didn't know anything about this, which makes it an original story. A film you can recommend if you liked Falling Down 1993. It has similar themes about a man who can't handle it anymore and flips out in society. Or is he crazy, or is society crazy?
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filmkul
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- 2557 messages
- 2298 votes
Mediocre crime drama. The story is based on a true story but offers just a little too little to fill an entire feature film. The execution is therefore somewhat dull. The first half is decent and engaging enough. But the middle section is weaker, and not enough happens to keep the viewer entertained. Fortunately, the cast is good enough to keep things reasonably high. Skarsgard, in particular, once again shows his class. Visually, the film is top-notch. Combined with the excellent soundtrack, it perfectly captures the 1970s. 3.0/3.5
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mrklm
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- 11931 messages
- 10217 votes
On February 8, 1977, Tony Kiritsis [Bill Skarsgård] walks into the Meridian Mortgage office in Indianapolis for a “meeting” with ML Hall [Al Pacino]. Tony wants to settle the score, as Hall allegedly defrauded him financially. Hall is not present, and therefore his son [Dacre Montgomery] is held hostage using the mechanism from the title. Tony demands to be allowed to tell his story via the popular program of 'voice of Indianapolis' Fred Temple [Colman Domingo]. A reconstruction of a true incident that took place in the city that was recently all over the news due to a collision with ICE. Van Sant has never been afraid to break the rules, but this eccentric crime drama is a failed hybrid of humor and thriller, in which both the humor and the suspense are hard to find. Cary Elwes plays an officer who knows Tony personally, and Myha'la plays an ambitious television reporter.
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