A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)
A Walk Among the Tombstones is a 2014 American neo-noir action thriller film directed and written by Scott Frank, and based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Lawrence Block. It stars Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, David Harbour, and Boyd Holbrook. The film was released on September 19, 2014. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $62 million worldwide.
Plot
In 1991, alcoholic NYPD Detective Matt Scudder survives a shootout with three criminals who rob his local bar. Eight years later, Scudder is retired and sober, working as an unlicensed private investigator. Peter Kristo, a fellow Alcoholics Anonymous member, brings Scudder to his brother Kenny, a wealthy drug trafficker. Kenny explains that his wife Carrie was abducted, and though he delivered the ransom, the kidnappers dismembered her, leaving him a tape recording of her brutal rape and murder. Agreeing to find the killers, Scudder visits the
New York Public Library to research similar murders and meets TJ, a homeless teen with a knack for detective work.
Scudder investigates the death of another woman, Leila Andresen, whose dismembered body was found in Green-Wood Cemetery. He discovers that her fiancé is tied to the drug trade, and confronts Jonas Loogan, the cemetery groundskeeper. Admitting that he helped the two men who killed Leila, Jonas kills himself.
Box office:
A Walk Among the Tombstones grossed $26 million in the United States and Canada, and $36.1 million in other territories, for a worldwide total gross of $62.1 million, against its $28 million budget. The film earned $428,000 from Thursday night from 1,918 theaters, and $4.7 million from 2,712 theaters on its opening day. It debuted at number two at the box office on its opening weekend earning $13.1 million behind The Maze Runner ($32.5 million).RELATED:
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Cast:
- Liam Neeson as Matthew Scudder
- Dan Stevens as Kenny Kristo
- Boyd Holbrook as Peter Kristo
- Ólafur Darri Ólafsson as Jonas Loogan
- Brian “Astro” Bradley as TJ
- Mark Consuelos as Reuben Quintana
- David Harbour as Ray
- Adam David Thompson as Albert
- Sebastian Roché as Yuri Landau
- Laura Birn as Leila Andresen
- Razane Jammal as Carrie Kristo
- Leon Addison Brown as Stover
- Danielle Rose Russell as Lucia
- Marielle Heller as Marie Gotteskind