A Most Violent Year

The year is 1981. The most violent year in the history of New York City. Abel (Isaac) is an immigrant American Dream success story; a self-made man. At a time when the city is exploding with endless opportunities, Abel’s vision is grand, and he wants nothing more than the prosperity and security that comes with success. Abel’s ambitions attract entrenched interests. Someone is attacking his trucks, beating his drivers and stealing his oil in broad daylight. The unions are threatening action if he doesn’t protect his employees. He’s struggling financially in a strategic land deal and when an ambitious District Attorney begins an unwarranted criminal investigation into his business, his bank refuses to back him. Everything is on the line and just when he feels he can’t be pushed any further, they threaten his family. The life he built with his bare hands is falling through his fingers. With the help of his wife (Chastain), who is as determined and ambitious as he, Abel will face his enemies and risk everything… all to save a dream.

A Most Violent Year Reviews

“A Most Violent Year asks you to watch and listen and pay close attention; it also rewards that investment with subtle, real pleasures and provocations. Set in that messy place where crime, business, law and politics intersect – which is to say, the real world – A Most Violent Year is a slow-burn drama about what kinds of compromises you'll make in order to tell yourself you haven't compromised.” – The Playlist

“A Most Violent Year, Chandor's absorbing no-bull NYC drama, further clarifies what might be the most promising career in American movies: an urban-headed filmmaker attuned to economies of place and time, with an eye on the vacant throne of Sidney Lumet.” – Time Out N.Y