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Out of the Furnace (2013)

★ 6.6 · 2,119 ratings on TMDB

Sometimes your battles choose you.

Out of the Furnace poster★ 6.6

Two brothers live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, when a cruel twist of fate lands one in prison. His brother is then lured into one of the most violent crime rings in the Northeast.

DirectorScott Cooper
CastBoyd Holbrook, Casey Affleck, Christian Bale, Forest Whitaker, Gordon Michaels, Sam Shepard
GenresCrime, Drama, Thriller
The emergence reading

Out of the Furnace keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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