Easy Money

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  • Opened July 11, 2012 (NY; 7/13 LA)
  • 1 hr 59 min
  • R | Strong Violence, Drug Content, Some Sexuality and Pervasive Language

  • EASY MONEY is a Swedish crime thriller based on the international best-selling novel Snabba Cash by Jens Lapidus. Lower-class business student JW (Joel Kinnaman from AMC’s ‘The Killing’) falls in love with a sexy heiress while living a double life mingling with Stockholm’s wealthy elite. To keep up the façade of his lifestyle, he’s lured into a world of crime. Jorge is a petty fugitive on the run from the both the police and Serbian mafia. He hopes that brokering a massive cocaine deal will allow him to escape for good. Mafia enforcer Mrado is on the hunt for Jorge, but his efforts are complicated when he’s unexpectedly saddled with caring for his young daughter. As JW’s journey ventures deeper into the dark world of organized crime, the fate of all three men becomes entangled and ends with a dramatic struggle for life and death. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Joel Kinnaman, Matias Padin Varela, Dragomir Mrsic, Dejan Cukic, Lisa Henni
  • Director: Daniel Espinosa
  • Genres: Art House/Foreign, Suspense/Thriller

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Entertainment Weekly
| Owen Gleiberman

Easy Money is not merely an early-career curiosity. It's one of the best underworld films I've seen in years, and Kinnaman gives a fantastic performance in it. Read full review

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Philadelphia Inquirer
| Steven Rea

An English-language remake is in the works, but why wait for the Hollywood knockoff? Easy Money is the real thing: a great gangster pic. Read full review

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Chicago Sun-Times
| Roger Ebert

One of the most involving of the many first-rate thrillers that have come recently from Scandinavia. Read full review

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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
| Liam Lacey

What really distinguishes it from any number of drug-escapade stories is the unusual and welcome sense of Dostoyevskian moral gravity of the narrative. Read full review

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Joel Kinnaman as JW in "Easy Money."