1998 · thriller · legal · noir
The Gingerbread Man
Directed by Robert Altman1h 54m1998
A successful Savannah defense attorney gets romantically involved with a sexy, mysterious waitress troubled by psychopaths and dark family secrets.
Our read: The Gingerbread Man (1998) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller · legal · noir entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / legal, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
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