A Walk Among the Tombstones (film)
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| Directed by | Scott Frank |
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| Screenplay by | Scott Frank |
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A Walk Among the Tombstones by Lawrence Block |
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| Music by | Carlos Rafael Rivera |
| Cinematography | Mihai Mălaimare Jr. |
| Edited by | Jill Savitt |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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114 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $28 million |
| Box office | $62.1 million |
A Walk Among the Tombstones is a 2014 American neo-noir crime drama-thriller film written and directed by Scott Frank, and based on a 1992 novel of the same name by Lawrence Block. It stars Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, David Harbour, Brian Bradley and Boyd Holbrook. The film was released on September 19, 2014.
In 1991, Detective Matthew Scudder (Liam Neeson) is in a car with his partner. He then enters a bar and gets two shots of alcohol and a cup of coffee. Two masked men then come in and kill the bartender, prompting Matt to take his gun and fire at them. He runs into the street and shoots one man down. The second man and a third drive away. Matt shoots the driver while the final man flees. Matt shoots him in the thigh and follows him down some steps and kills him.
Eight years later, a junkie named Peter (Boyd Holbrook) approaches Matt, now a recovering alcoholic, and asks him to help his brother Kenny Kristo (Dan Stevens), a drug trafficker whose wife Carrie was kidnapped and then murdered, despite Kenny paying the ransom fee. Kenny offers Matt $20,000 to find the kidnappers. At first, Matt rejects the offer, but the next day Kenny shows up outside Matt's apartment to plead with him. Upon getting a phone call from the kidnappers, Kenny tried to haggle the ransom price from $1,000,000 to $400,000. The kidnappers agreed and after giving Kenny the runaround, told him his wife was waiting for him in a car in Red Hook. When Kenny gets to the car, all he finds are packages which resemble bags of powdered drugs but are in fact filled with his dismembered wife.
Matt looks around Red Hook and determines that the kidnappers were most likely involved with the DEA. All the people he asks say they saw a van and two men close to where Carrie was last seen. Every person Matt asks gives him a different name of what was written on the van, since the two men keep repainting the van. Matt goes to the library to find articles on similar killings. He reads two articles on victims named Marie Gotteskind and Leila Anderssen. Behind him is a street kid named TJ (Brian "Astro" Bradley). Matt asks him for help with looking for other articles. Together, they learn that a leg was found in a dumpster by a florist, while other bags filled with body parts were in the pond of a cemetery. Matt goes to the cemetery to speak with the groundskeeper, Jonas Loogan (Olafur Darri Olafsson). He had repressed the memory of finding the dead woman in all those bags, and is upset when Matt brings it up.
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