Film

Lucky Number Slevin 2006

Directed by Paul McGuigan

  • Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery
  • 110 min
  • R

Wrong time. Wrong place. Wrong number.

Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma.

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Contemporary, unpretentious, spare and plot-driven.

  • contemporarynostalgic
  • unpretentiousprestige
  • sparerichly built
  • character-ledplot-driven
  • classical in formformally daring

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