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Quicksand (2003)

Quicksand poster
Directed by
John Mackenzie
Genre
crime film
Country
Germany, United Kingdom, France, United States
Runtime
1h 33m
Rated
R
Rating
4.9 of 10 from 45 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A banker gets caught in a web of danger and deceit after a routine business trip goes wrong. He must outrun shady figures and corrupt cops to survive.

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What happens

Quicksand is a 2003 direct-to-video British-French-German co-produced crime thriller film starring Michael Keaton and Michael Caine, based on the book Boudapesti 3 by Desmond Lowden. The film was released in Germany, Finland, Sweden and Norway in 2003, in United States on 16 March 2004 and in the United Kingdom on 1 November 2004. Quicksand was filmed in South France between December 2000 and January 2001, originally set for a 2002 release. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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