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Seven Psychopaths (2012)

★ 6.8 · 4,248 ratings on TMDB

They won't take any shih tzu.

Seven Psychopaths poster★ 6.8

A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.

DirectorMartin McDonagh
CastAbbie Cornish, Christopher Walken, Colin Farrell, Kevin Corrigan, Michael Stuhlbarg, Olga Kurylenko
GenresComedy, Crime
The emergence reading

Seven Psychopaths 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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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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