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Post by mikef6 on Oct 25, 2023 22:46:24 GMT
The Outfit / Graham Moore (2022). An excellent, yes-they-do-still-make-them-like-that, thriller with a single setting, driven by perfectly written dialogue, and acted by some first rank players, starting with Mark Rylance. Rylance, known in the U.K. as a major stage actor, made his movie breakthrough in Hollywood with his Oscar winning performance in “Bridge of Spies” (2015). Soft-spoken, mild mannered Leonard Burling insists, “I am not a tailor, I’m a cutter.” Anyone can be a tailor, he says, if he has a measuring tape and can sew on a few buttons. Being a cutter takes years. It is 1956 in Chicago. Leonard is English but relocated to start over. He first customer was the neighborhood mob ruler Roy Boyle (Russell Simon Beale) who liked him and who now uses the back room of Leonard’s business to collect numbers money from his dealers. In his front room sits his receptionist Mable Sean (Zoe Deutch) who Leonard has fatherly feelings for. One night Roy’s son Richie and his sidekick Francis demand entrance. Richie has been shot in a gangland war. Francis insists that Leonard stop the bleeding by sewing up the wound. This begins a cat-and-mouse game among all the participants around who is the rat passing Boyle secrets to the other side and the whereabouts of a certain audiotape. All leads to an amazing and unforgettable ending.
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Post by politicidal1 on Oct 26, 2023 2:13:41 GMT
One of my favorite movies from 2022. Mark Rylance is excellent and the movie does make good use of its location.
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