The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2007)

Directed by

John Herzfeld

Genre

action film, crime film

Country

Germany, United States

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

R

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 410 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A drug dealer in prison is forced to impersonate a dead criminal named Bobby Z by federal agents. He gets involved in a dangerous scheme with rival gangs and the dead man's family.

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What happens

The Death and Life of Bobby Z, also known as Bobby Z and Let's Kill Bobby Z, is a 2007 American-German action film, directed by John Herzfeld, starring Paul Walker, Laurence Fishburne, Olivia Wilde and Joaquim de Almeida. Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group released the film direct-to-video in the United States. Don Winslow, who wrote the 1997 novel on which the film is based, acknowledged that the screen adaptation was not successful, even though his novel was positively reviewed by several newspapers. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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