The Day Shall Come (2019)

Directed by

Chris Morris

Genre

thriller film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

16

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 125 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A well-meaning but desperate family man in Miami gets tangled in an FBI sting operation that targets low-level potential extremists. The agents manipulate him into increasingly absurd plots, revealing the absurdity and tragedy of counterterrorism tactics.

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What happens

The Day Shall Come is a 2019 dark comedy film directed by Chris Morris, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jesse Armstrong and co-scored the film with Sebastian Rochford and Jonathan Whitehead. It stars Marchánt Davis, Anna Kendrick, Danielle Brooks, and Denis O'Hare. The film satirises a number of real-life FBI sting operations including the Liberty City Seven. A co-production between the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia, the film was secretly shot in the Dominican Republic from 2017 to 2018 and had its world premiere at South by Southwest on 11 March 2019. It was released in the United States by IFC Films on 27 September 2019 and in the United Kingdom by Entertainment One on 11 October 2019. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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