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Dead of Winter
UNITED STATES · 1987

Dead of Winter

Arthur Penn
psychological thriller kidnapping deception blackmail isolation
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Synopsis

A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.

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