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Nobody (2021)

Nobody poster
Directed by
Ilya Naishuller
Genre
comedy film, action film, thriller film, vigilante film, black comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 32m
Rated
R
Rating
7.9 of 10 from 8,465 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A quiet suburban husband and father is a former assassin. When a home invasion humiliates his family, he sets off a chain of violence that draws out a vengeful crime lord.

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What happens

Nobody is a 2021 American action thriller film directed by Ilya Naishuller and written by Derek Kolstad. The film stars Bob Odenkirk as a mild-mannered family man who returns to his former life of an assassin after he and his family become the target of a vengeful crime lord. Connie Nielsen, RZA, Aleksei Serebryakov, and Christopher Lloyd appear in supporting roles. Odenkirk and David Leitch are among the film's producers. Universal Pictures released Nobody theatrically in the United States on March 26, 2021. The film grossed $57 million on a $16 million budget and received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the action sequences and Odenkirk's performance. A sequel, Nobody 2, was released on August 15, 2025. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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