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Compliance (2012)

★ 6.4 · 782 ratings on TMDB

How far would you go?

Compliance poster★ 6.4

On a particularly busy day at a suburban Ohio fast food restaurant, manager Sandra receives a phone call from a police officer saying that an employee has stolen money from a customer.

DirectorCraig Zobel
CastAnn Dowd, Ashlie Atkinson, Bill Camp, Dreama Walker, James McCaffrey, Matt Servitto
GenresDrama, Thriller
The emergence reading

Compliance 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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Shared director or cast.

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