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The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)

★ 6.5 · 558 ratings on TMDB

You can get away with anything. Once.

The Postman Always Rings Twice poster★ 6.5

The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.

DirectorBob Rafelson
CastAnjelica Huston, Brian Farrell, Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange, John Colicos, John P. Ryan
GenresCrime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
The emergence reading

The Postman Always Rings Twice keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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