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Monday, July 29, 2019

A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES


(Left: Liam Neeson)

Liam Neeson stars in the thrilling crime drama A Walk Among The Tombstones  to be aired on M-Net City Movies (Channel 115) on August 2 at 20h50.

A detective is hired by a drug kingpin to investigate the kidnapping and murder of his wife.

Matt Scudder (Liam Neeson), formerly part of the NYPD, now works as an unlicensed private detective. His latest client is a drug trafficker (Dan Stevens) whose wife was kidnapped and brutally murdered, and as Scudder delves deeper, he finds that the crime's sequence is the modus operandi of the perpetrators. Before they can strike again and destroy other lives, Scudder races through the back streets of New York to catch the killers, blurring the lines between lawful and criminal as he goes.

Directed by Scott Frank, the film is based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Lawrence Block. It also features Dan Stevens, David Harbour and Boyd Holbrook. Rating 16VL.