Dead Man's Wire
His revolution was televised.
Overview
In 1977, former real estate developer Tony Kiritsis puts a dead man's switch on himself and the mortgage banker who did him wrong, demanding $5 million and a personal apology.
- Budget
- $13,000,000
- Revenue
- $2,248,569
- Production
- Elevated Films, Balcony 9 Productions, RNA Pictures, TPC, Sobini Films, Co Created Media, Copper Island, Last Mile Productions, Wrong Turn Productions, SIPUR, Construction Film, Streamline Global, Pressman Film, Space Pilot Media, WME Independent, Pinstripes, Film Manufacturers, LB Entertainment, Edith Productions, YO Productions, Filmhedge, Sillen Productions, Punch Once, Eterna, Notorious Productions Film Fund, VL Entertainment, Raised by Wolves Pictures
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Cast
Bill Skarsgård
Tony Kiritsis
Dacre Montgomery
Richard 'Dick' Hall
Cary Elwes
Michael Grable
Myha'la
Linda Page
Colman Domingo
Fred Temple
Al Pacino
M.L. Hall
Kelly Lynch
Mabel Hall
Jordan Claire Robbins
Doreen
John Robinson
Cameraman
Kyle Rankin
Rookie Cop
Vinh Nguyen
James
Stephanie Bertoni
TV News Anchor
Daniel R. Hill
Jimmy Kiritsis
John N. Dixon
First Responder
Andy S. Allen
Clifford Chapman
Casey Feigh
Resort Attendant
Donald K. Overstreet
Doug O'Brien
Aaron Massey
Police Officer
Michael James Dukes
Bomb Squad Officer
Kevin Ragsdale
Sheriff
Crew
- Director
- Gus Van Sant
- Writers
- Austin Kolodney
- Cinematography
- Arnaud Potier
- Composer
- Danny Elfman
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Brent Marchant
October 29, 2025
At a time when many of us may feel like we’re being systematically shafted by big business and powerful financial institutions, it’s natural that some of us might feel justified in seeking retribution against them for their deceitful actions. Such was also the case in February 1977, when an aggrieved borrower sought potentially deadly vengeance against the president of an Indianapolis mortgage company, as seen in this fact-based comedy-drama-thriller from director Gus Van Sant. When Tony Kiritsi…
CinemaSerf
March 27, 2026
Back in 1977, Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård) took the law into his own hands by brazenly kidnapping the son of the owner of a mortgage company that he felt had left him high, dry and broke. Now we are not taking about a child here, Richard (Dacre Montgomery) is a married adult and father who is frog-marched out of his building with a shotgun tied to his head. They even pinch a police car to drive to his explosives-riddled apartment where he will hold his hostage until he gets $5 millions in comp…