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Nightcrawler

2014 · Thriller · Dan Gilroy · 1h 57m

A young man with no job and no limits finds he can sell footage of crashes and shootings to a Los Angeles morning news show, and gets very good at arriving first. Night driving, police scanners, and one man talking his way into places he shouldn't be.

  • Strongly character-driven
  • Clearly heavy
  • Clearly realistic

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