Paper Tiger

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Legend
OCOpen Captioned
Special Content
35mm
SFSensory Friendly
Cinema Studies

Paper Tiger

Opens November 20

In James Gray’s (The Immigrant) deeply felt and intense crime thriller, set in 1986 New York, a naïve engineer, Irwin (Miles Teller) accepts a seemingly lucrative business proposition from his brother, Gary (Adam Driver), a former cop. But when Irwin witnesses something he wasn’t meant to see at the Gowanus Canal, the brothers find themselves pulled into a dangerous confrontation with the newly emerging Russian mafia. As the threat of violence escalates, Irwin’s wife Hester (Scarlett Johansson) sounds the alarm, Irwin desperately tries to protect his family, and Gary is forced to make an impossible choice to save those he loves.

"Paper Tiger is old school in the best way, the kind of movie so many American directors have forgotten how to make, if they ever learned in the first place."
Stephanie Zacharek, TIME Magazine
"Gray and his superb cast are in blazing form and full command here in a bruising movie that reveals the heavy price of pursuing the American Dream too recklessly."
David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter


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