A Most Violent Year
2014, Film, 125 min, Crime, Drama, Thriller, English, United States, MoviePedia score 73
The result is never in question. Just the path you take to get there.
A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.
Directed by J.C. Chandor
Cast
- Oscar Isaac as Abel Morales
- Jessica Chastain as Anna Morales
- David Oyelowo as D.A. Lawrence
- Alessandro Nivola as Peter Forente
- Elyes Gabel as Julian
- Lorna Pruce as Toll Booth Attendant
- Christopher Abbott as Louis Servidio
- Matthew Maher as John Dominczyk
- Albert Brooks as Andrew Walsh
- Jerry Adler as Joseph Mendelsohn
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