Ms. 45

[Available Feb. 19 via streaming on MUBI.] After a shy, beautiful, mute seamstress (Zoƫ Tamerlis), who works in the Manhattan garment district with her boss (Albert Sinkys) and coworkers (Darlene Stuto, Helen McGara, and Nike Zachmanoglou) at a clothing firm, is sexually assaulted in the 1980s by two rapists (Abel Ferrara and Peter Yellen) and robbed all in one day in Abel Ferrara's dark, tension-filled, well-acted, unpredictable, 80-minute, 1981 film, her lonely life unravels when she mentally snaps and takes revenge by retaliating against a series of random men, including a sleazy photographer (S. Edward Singer), a flirtatious heckler (Vincent Gruppi), gang members, an abusive pimp, an Arab sheik, and a bodyguard/chauffeur, by shooting them with a 45-caliber pistol she got from the robber while she becomes increasingly irritated by her meddling landlady (Editta Sherman) and her barking dog.
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