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A Most Wanted Man
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A Most Wanted Man (2014)

Suspense
Rated R
121 min.
Release Date
July 25, 2014 (Limited)
DVD Release Date
November 4, 2014 (Buy on Amazon)
Director
Anton Corbijn
Writer
Andrew Bovell
Cast
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright, Willem Dafoe, Daniel Brühl
Running Time
121 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated R for language

Adapted from the best-seller by master spy novelist John le Carré, "A Most Wanted Man" takes place in present day Hamburg, Germany where a mysterious, tortured and near-dead half-Chechen, half-Russian man on the run arrives in the city's Islamic community desperate for help and looking to recover his late Russian father's ill-gotten fortune. Nothing about this young man seems to add up; is he a victim or a thief or, worse still, an extremist intent... Full synopsis »

MOVIE REVIEW

Philip Seymour Hoffman is gone, but his movies keep coming. With the next Hunger Games fast approaching, Hoffman’s A Most Wanted Man is now on Blu-ray and DVD, offering a more subdued form of suspense. Too subdued? Probably, at least for dumb Americans like me. Full movie review »
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