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Dead Man's Wire

6.4/ 10

TMDB Rating

87

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2026

Release Year

105 min

Runtime

Crime
Drama

Overview

In 1977, former real estate developer Tony Kiritsis puts a dead man's switch on himself and the mortgage banker who did him wrong, demanding $5 million and a personal apology.

Keywords

banker
kidnapping
hostage
1970s
dark comedy
indianapolis
based on true story
courtroom
hostage negotiator
standoff
radio host
duringcreditsstinger
mortgage
angry
father son relationship
cautionary
melodramatic
private equity

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Reviews(2)

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Brent Marchant

@Brent_Marchant

October 29, 2025

7
7/10

At a time when many of us may feel like we’re being systematically shafted by big business and powerful financial institutions, it’s natural that some of us might feel justified in seeking retribution against them for their deceitful actions. Such was also the case in February 1977, when an aggrieve

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

March 27, 2026

7
7/10

Back in 1977, Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård) took the law into his own hands by brazenly kidnapping the son of the owner of a mortgage company that he felt had left him high, dry and broke. Now we are not taking about a child here, Richard (Dacre Montgomery) is a married adult and father who is frog

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