The Alarmist (1997)
- Directed by
- Evan Dunsky
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 4.5 of 10 from 20 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A naive door-to-door salesman gets drawn into a high-pressure job selling alarm systems. His new boss pushes him toward increasingly deceptive and unethical sales tactics.
darkly comicquirkyoffbeattensesatiricalcerebralcringe comedy
What happens
The Alarmist, also known as Life During Wartime, is a 1997 dark comedy film written and directed by Evan Dunsky, and starring David Arquette, Stanley Tucci, Mary McCormack and Kate Capshaw. It is an adaptation of the 1990 play Life During Wartime written by Keith Reddin. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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