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Blackway (2015)

Blackway poster
Directed by
Daniel Alfredson
Genre
crime film, thriller film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
R
Rating
5.3 of 10 from 412 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman returns to her small hometown and is harassed by a violent local man. She seeks help from a retired logger and his young assistant to confront him.

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What happens

Blackway is a 2015 thriller film directed by Daniel Alfredson and written by Joseph Gangemi and Gregory Jacobs, based on the 2008 novel Go with Me by Castle Freeman Jr. The film stars Anthony Hopkins, Julia Stiles, Ray Liotta, Alexander Ludwig and Hal Holbrook. Filmed in Canada in 2014, the film premiered under the festival title Go with Me at the 2015 Venice Film Festival on September 11, 2015, and was released theatrically on June 10, 2016. This is the final film appearance of Hal Holbrook before his death in January 2021. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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