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Ashby

Ashby (2015)

Drama, Romantic, Comedy, Crime | United States

Director: Tony McNamara

Film4 | Tuesday 18 January 2022 | 01:40

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Rating: 6.4/10

User rating: 6.9/10
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SYNOPSIS

ASHBY is a coming of age/approaching death comedy drama. A seventeen-year-old kid (Ed) trying to understand who he wants to be in the world, befriends a terminally ill ex-CIA contract killer (Ashby) who is trying to make peace with his life and God before he goes. 'Making peace' might just entail killing three old bosses who have tricked him into breaching his strange moral code.

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Writer: Tony McNamara

Producer: Luke Daniels, Hilary Davis

RUNTIME: 100 min

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