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Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

★ 7.5 · 1,781 ratings on TMDB

They’re young… they’re in love… and they kill people.

Bonnie and Clyde poster★ 7.5

In the 1930s, bored European-American waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with a European-American ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.

DirectorArthur Penn
CastDenver Pyle, Dub Taylor, Estelle Parsons, Evans Evans, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman
GenresCrime, Drama
The emergence reading

Bonnie and Clyde 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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