Dead Man’s Wire

On the morning of February 8, 1977, Indianapolis entrepreneur Anthony G. “Tony” Kiritsis entered the office of Richard O. Hall, president of the Meridian Mortgage Company, and took the man hostage with a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun wired to his head. In this ‘70s-style thriller reminiscent of Dog Day Afternoon, acclaimed filmmaker Gus Van Sant (My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting) recreates the incident in meticulous detail, following Tony’s misbegotten attempt to seek retribution from the Hall family for cheating him out of what he felt he was owed.

Featuring commanding performances from Bill Skarsgård as the unhinged Kiritsis, Colman Domingo as a radio DJ who gets up caught in the chaos, and Al Pacino as the grouchy mortgage mogul whose son, played by Dacre Montgomery, is under the gun, Dead Man’s Wire is an eerily timely, unsettling, and captivating story about vigilante justice and the thin line between criminal and hero in American society.

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