2010 · crime · thriller · comedy
Ca$h
Directed by Stephen Milburn Anderson1h 48m2010
A stroke of good luck turns lethal for Sam Phelan and his wife Leslie when they are faced with a life-changing decision that brings strange and sinister Pyke Kubic to their doorstep. As Pyke leads Sam and Leslie on a tumultuous adventure through the streets of Chicago, each are pulled deeper and deeper into a desperate spiral of deception and violence – all in the name of money.
Our read: Ca$h (2010) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded crime · thriller · comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured crime / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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