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The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2007)
★ 6.2 · 402 ratings on TMDB
To live a life of his own, he has to die first.
A DEA agent provides former Marine Tim Kearney with a way out of his prison sentence: impersonate Bobby Z, a recently deceased drug dealer, in a hostage switch with a crime lord. When the negotiations go awry, Kearney flees, with Z's son in tow.
DirectorJohn Herzfeld
The emergence reading
The Death and Life of Bobby Z keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
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