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The Parallax View
Why this pick
Like Silver City, it uses an investigator’s pursuit of a suspicious death to expose political power operating through a chilly, paranoid American landscape.
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MOVIE2004 2h 8m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Richard "Dicky" Pilager, the dim-witted scion of a powerful political dynasty, is running for List of Governors of Colorado. One day, while filming a campaign ad that shows him fishing at Arapahoe Lake, Pilager hooks a corpse on location. Chuck Raven, Pilager's campaign manager, hires Danny O'Brien, a former journalist who works as a private investigator, to examine the case. Raven urges O'Brien to find potential links between the body and Pilager's political enemies.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
James Gammon
Sheriff Joe Skaggs
Mary Kay Place
Grace Seymour
Maria Bello
Nora Allardyce
Tim Roth
Mitch Paine
Kris Kristofferson
Wes Benteen
Danny Huston
Danny O'Brien
Miguel Ferrer
Cliff Castleton
Chris Cooper
Dickie Pilager