2015 · drama · action · thriller
Operator
Directed by Obin Olson, Amariah Olson1h 28m2015
When the daughter of veteran 911 call center operator Pamela, and her estranged husband Jeremy, a Senior Police Officer, is kidnapped and held hostage, they are left desperate, with no choice but to follow the kidnapper's rules: send messages through dispatch for all police and fire units to scatter to remote locations throughout the city where they are met with chaos. Not knowing who or why, they must race against the clock to make the choice of their lives: save the city — or save their daughter.
Our read: Operator (2015) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded drama · action · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured drama / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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