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Small Town Crime (2017)

Small Town Crime poster
Directed by
Eshom Nelms, Ian Nelms
Genre
thriller film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 31m
Rated
R
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 255 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An alcoholic ex-cop finds a woman barely alive on a rural road. He insists on finding who tried to kill her, which draws him into a dangerous investigation that threatens his family.

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What happens

Small Town Crime is a 2017 American neo-noir thriller film directed by Eshom Nelms and Ian Nelms. It stars John Hawkes as an alcoholic ex-cop who discovers a woman left for dead on the side of a road and finds himself compelled to locate the killer. As he investigates further, he encounters several shady characters and inadvertently puts his family in danger. It also stars Anthony Anderson, Clifton Collins Jr., Michael Vartan (in his final film role), Caity Lotz, James Lafferty, Robert Forster and Octavia Spencer. The film premiered at SXSW on March 11, 2017, and was made available to watch on DirecTV Cinema beginning December 21, 2017 before getting released in select theaters January 19, 2018, by Saban Films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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