Top Cast
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Andy Garcia
Joe Diamond
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Brendan Fraser
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Vicky Krieps
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Bill Murray
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Robert Patrick
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Rosemarie DeWitt
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Demián Bichir
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Dustin Hoffman
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Yul Vazquez
Overview
Joe Diamond is out of time with a traumatic past and an uncanny ability to solve crimes, using wit and observation to peel back hidden truths.
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Mr. Arkadin
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The Late Show
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Suburbicon
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The Glass Key
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The Two Jakes
Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and his job of killing people for his family has become the most stressful part of his life. He seeks the help of a therapist and meets a woman in the waiting room that he connects with.
Panic
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One Night at McCool's
After his son is wrongly accused of kidnapping, a deacon who has just lost his wife takes matters into his own hands and fights a crooked police gang to clear him.
The Black Book
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
The Blue Gardenia
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.