2006 · crime · drama · thriller
Hard Luck
Directed by Mario Van Peebles1h 41m2006
Three converging story lines involving bootleggers, a serial killer and drug dealers are followed. A former drug dealer tries to go straight, but comes across a stash of stolen drugs. Meanwhile, a middle-aged suburban housewife hides a sadistic and vicious streak.
Our read: Hard Luck (2006) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive crime · drama · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme crime / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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