Most Violent Year, A

An engaging, well-acted, star-dotted (Albert Brooks and Alessandro Nivola, Jerry Adler, and Catalina Sandino Moreno), 125-minute film in which a proud, ethical, hardworking, ambitious, immigrant businessman (Oscar Isaac) with a hard-edged, no-nonsense wife (Jessica Chastain), three young daughters, and an adult son (Pico Alexander) in New York City tries to run a legitimate oil heating company in 1981 but runs into rival business owners buying stolen fuel while trying to close a deal on new property and dealing with a district attorney (David Oyelowo) who plans to indict him for unlawful practices.
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