A Most Violent Year
“The result is never in question. Just the path you take to get there.”
CrimeDramaThriller
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.
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A Most Violent Year is a tense, gritty slow-burn, immersing you in a cold, anxious 1980s New York. It's a morally ambiguous journey of ambition and integrity, where the pursuit of the American Dream clashes with systemic corruption. The atmosphere is stark and determined, with a palpable sense of looming threat.
tensegrittyambitiousanxiousmorally ambiguousslow-burngritty realismperiod pieceurban dramacharacter-drivenambitionintegritythe American Dreamsystemic corruptionsurvival
new york cityimmigranthusband wife relationshipcorruptioncapitalismwinteramerican dreambusiness ethicstruckoillawyerloan sharkcoattunnel1980struck hijackingbank loan
