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Killer Joe
Why this pick
Matches The Paperboy’s humid Southern grime, lurid moral rot, and queasy collision of family desperation, sexual danger, and violence.
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MOVIE2012 1h 47m USA
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
As investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story with the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent swamp-dweller Hillary Van Wetter was framed for the murder of a corrupt local sheriff.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Zac Efron
Jack Jansen
Matthew McConaughey
Ward Jansen
Nicole Kidman
Charlotte Bless
David Oyelowo
Yardley Acheman
Macy Gray
Anita / Narrator
Scott Glenn
W.W. Jansen
Nealla Gordon
Ellen Guthrie
Gary Clarke
Weldon Pine