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Tuner (2025)

Tuner poster
Directed by
Daniel Roher
Genre
drama film, thriller film
Country
United States, Canada
Runtime
1h 47m
Rated
R
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 177 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A piano tuner with a hearing condition uses his ability to hear minute details to crack safes. He takes the job to pay off his mentor's medical debt and gets pulled into a criminal underworld.

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What happens

Tuner is a 2025 crime thriller film directed by Daniel Roher and written by Roher and Robert Ramsey. The film stars Leo Woodall, Havana Rose Liu, Lior Raz, Tovah Feldshuh, Jean Reno and Dustin Hoffman. It follows a piano tuner, Niki White (Woodall), with a hearing condition that gives him heightened sensitivity to sound. When his mentor Harry (Hoffman) racks up a medical debt, White earns cash to pay it off by using his sensitive hearing to crack safes and becomes embroiled with a criminal group. Tuner had its world premiere at the 52nd Telluride Film Festival on August 30, 2025, and was released in the United States by Black Bear Pictures on May 22, 2026. The film received positive reviews from critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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