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How to Make a Killing (2026)

★ 7.0 · 337 ratings on TMDB

$28 billion inheritance. 7 relatives standing in the way.

How to Make a Killing poster★ 7.0

Disowned at birth by his obscenely wealthy family, blue-collar Becket Redfellow will stop at nothing to reclaim his inheritance, no matter how many relatives stand in his way.

DirectorJohn Patton Ford
CastAlexander Hanson, Bill Camp, Ed Harris, Glen Powell, Jessica Henwick, Margaret Qualley
GenresComedy, Thriller
The emergence reading

How to Make a Killing keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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