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Manhattan Night

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5.9/10 • 380

2016-05-201h 53m

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No reporter can resist a siren.

Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when Caroline, a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband Simon, he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail--one that threatens his job, his marriage, and his life.

Directors
Brian DeCubellis
Editors
Andy Keir

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  1. Adrien Brody

    Adrien Brody

    Porter Wren

  2. Yvonne Strahovski

    Yvonne Strahovski

    Caroline Crowley

  3. Campbell Scott

    Campbell Scott

    Simon Crowley

  4. Jennifer Beals

    Jennifer Beals

    Lisa Wren

  5. Steven Berkoff

    Steven Berkoff

    Hobbs

  6. Linda Lavin

    Linda Lavin

    Norma

  7. Kevin Breznahan

    Kevin Breznahan

    Ron

  8. Thomas Bair

    Thomas Bair

    Tommy

  9. Will Beinbrink

    Will Beinbrink

    Billy

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Reno

Oct 14, 2016

7/10

Ending up solving mysteries between two people risking his own family. The film was based on the book named 'Manhattan Nocturne'. Excellently made film, it's the director's first feature film as well. He did not get the top actors, but these actors were the good ones. Adrien Brody and Yvonne Strahovski were amazing their respective roles. It was not a detective story, but very close to being one. So if you love crime-mysteries, then you should try this. The tone of the film makes very interesting. It's not about the question of story prediction, but how cleverly it was advanced like the characters were transformed compared to the opening and the conclusion. Some films open strongly, but ends poorly. In this case, the opening was average, but ended on a high. The main reason is the middle parts, keeping all contents together and developing some suspense with a couple of quick twists made this film to reach the expectation made by its viewers. It was a tale of a recently famed reporter finds an affair with a young widow, despite he's married with a child. Soon, he discovers some mysterious men are watching him, who threatening his family as well. How he gets out of that trouble by finding reasons behind it is what the rest of the film narrates. It looked a lot like a television film. Not because of the production quality, actually the production was top class, but the story and its narration felt kind of like a mini-series type. I don't know how many books are there, but I want this to continue, at least as a television film series. One of the best of its kind, I almost liked everything about the film. But I still feel I underrated it, at the end I'm satisfied with what I gave. Definitely, I recommend it. 7/10

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
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Keywords
husband wife relationshipblackmailinvestigationlove affairincestdeathnewspaper mantabloidtemptationmanhattan, new york cityneo-noir