Silk Road (2020)

Directed by

Tiller Russell

Genre

thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 52m

Rated

R

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 232 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man creates a massive online marketplace on the dark web. Federal agents try to take him down while some of them break the law themselves.

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What happens

Silk Road is a 2021 American crime thriller film written and directed by Tiller Russell, based on the Rolling Stone article "Dead End on Silk Road: Internet Crime Kingpin Ross Ulbricht's Big Fall" by David Kushner. The film stars Jason Clarke, Nick Robinson, Alexandra Shipp, Jimmi Simpson, Paul Walter Hauser, Darrell Britt-Gibson, and Will Ropp. It is based on the true story of Ross Ulbricht, who develops a website on the darknet, an act which attracts the attention of the FBI and DEA, who send in federal agent Richard "Rick" Bowden, a fictional composite of real life DEA Special Agent Carl Force and US Secret Service Special Agent Shaun Bridges, both of whom were convicted of felonies related to theft of assets in the investigation of Ulbricht, to bring down his empire. Silk Road was released in the United States on February 19, 2021 by Lionsgate. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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