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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In 1981 New York City, Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac) is the owner of an up-and-coming company that has suffered the Truck hijacking of several trucks, each carrying heating oil worth thousands of dollars. One driver, Julian (Elyes Gabel), is severely beaten when his oil truck is hijacked by two unknown assailants. Abel's wife, Anna Morales (Jessica Chastain), beseeches Abel to fight violence with violence, but Abel refuses. Morales and his company are under investigation by Assistant District Attorney Lawrence (David Oyelowo), who seems determined to expose price fixing, tax evasion, and various other illegalities committed by Morales and his competitors in the heating oil business.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Oscar Isaac
Abel Morales
Jessica Chastain
Anna Morales
Albert Brooks
Andrew Walsh
Peter Gerety
Bill O'Leary
Ashley Williams
Lange
John Procaccino
Arthur Lewis
Jerry Adler
Joseph Mendelsohn
Glenn Fleshler
Arnold Kline