2013 · action · comedy
Pawn Shop Chronicles
Directed by Wayne Kramer1h 47m2013
The stories of a missing wife, a couple of meth heads and an Elvis impersonator are connected by the items found in a small town's pawn shop.
Our read: Pawn Shop Chronicles (2013) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action / comedy, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
- intimate
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“You want nasty Southern-fried crime vignettes colliding through one pawn shop.”
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