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Synopsis: Matt Scudder is a former cop now a private eye. He is asked by a drug dealer to find the men who kidnapped his wife. It seems like they killed her even after he paid them. Scudder refuses. But the man later goes to see him and tells him how his wife was killed. Scudder takes the job. He does some research and thinks the men he is looking for have done this more than once. And that everyone they grabbed is connected to a drug dealer. He was about to give up when they grab another girl and Scudder tries make sure she's returned alive.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Scott Frank
Production: Universal Studios
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
57
Rotten Tomatoes:
66%
R
Year:
2014
114 min
Website
1,348 Views


you with that hand.

Could you?

Shelter's gonna be closed.

Wait for me back at my place.

Where are you going?

Just do as I say.

Step 10. Continue to

take personal inventory.

And when we were wrong,

promptly admitted it.

Step 11.

Sought through prayer and meditation

to improve our conscious contact

with God as we understand him.

Praying only for the

knowledge of his will

for us and the power to carry that out.

Step 12. Having had a spiritual

awakening as the result of these steps,

we try to carry this

message to alcoholics

and to practice these

principles in all our affairs.

Kenny?

You know,

I just wanted to...

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Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block (born June 24, 1938) is an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York–set series about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and the gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. Block was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1994. more…

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