Dead Man’s Wire
Synopsis
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.
Awards Event
At this screening, acclaimed director Gus Van Sant will receive the Festival’s Visionary Award, recognizing his auspicious body of work defined by both experimentation and humanity.
Van Sant’s many features include Drugstore Cowboy (1989), My Own Private Idaho (1991), Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993), To Die For (1995), Gerry (2002), Elephant (2003), Paranoid Park (2007), and Restless (2011) as well as Good Will Hunting (1997), which was nominated for Best Picture and Best Director at the Academy Awards. Dead Man’s Wire (2025) is his latest feature.
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Film Credits
- Cassian Elwes, Mark Amin, Sam Pressman, Tom Culliver, Andrea Bucko, Billy Hines, Veronica Radaelli, Matt Murphie, Paula Paizes, Joel David Moore, Remi Alfallah, Noor Alfallah, Siena Oberman, Gordon Clark
- Austin Kolodney
- Saar Klein
- Arnaud Potier
- Bill Skarsgård, Dacre Montgomery, Cary Elwes, Myha'la, Colman Domingo, Al Pacino
- Danny Elfman
- Elevated Films, Pressman Film, Balcony 9 Productions, Sobini Films, RNA Pictures, Pinstripes
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