Description:
Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
Directors: Scott Frank
Writers: Scott Frank (screenplay), Lawrence Block (novel)
Stars: Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, David Harbour
A Walk Among the Tombstones is a 2014 American crime thriller film based on a novel by Lawrence Block of the same name, directed and written by Scott Frank. It stars Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, Boyd Holbrook, and Sebastian Roché. The film was released on September 19, 2014.
Plot:
In 1991 Manhattan, Mathew Scudder, an off-duty New York Police
Department (NYPD) officer, is unexpectedly caught up in an armed robbery
at a bar where officers drink for free. Scudder guns down the would-be
thieves, however one of his bullets inadvertently strikes a seven year
old girl, killing her instantly. Shaken from the experience, Scudder
quits the force with full commendations from the police force, and
spends the next eight years in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) while
moonlighting as an unlicensed private eye.
One night, after an AA meeting, Scudder is approached by the brother
of a man named Kenny seeking to employ the PI to locate his wife's
killer. Kenny explains that his wife was abducted for a ransom, the
kidnappers killed his wife after he paid the $400,000 ransom, cutting
her up in small pieces before returning her in the dismembered state to
Kenny. Reluctantly, Scudder accepts the job.
At a local library, Scudder meets an adolescent named TJ, who helps
Scudder by locating information on the net concerning similar cases to
Kenny's. Scudder eventually traces the kidnappers' MO, and meets a
cemetery groundsman who discovered one of the victim's remains while
fishing trash bags out of a pond. After trailing the groundsman back to
his house Scudder learns that he was an accomplice for one of the
murders, and has had trouble getting over his role in the homicide. The
groundsman explains that he met the two men that Scudder is after in a
movie store; both men apparently shared a fetish-like interest in death.
Scudder learns one of the two men goes by the name Ray, but before he
can glean any further information, the groundsman abruptly kills himself
by stepping off the roof of his apartment building. Upon further
investigation, Scudder determines that the two men he is after were at
one point somehow affiliated with the DEA, and have been targeting drug
dealers from whom to extort money.
In a residential neighborhood, Ray and his accomplice prepare to
abduct another woman, however Ray waves the kidnapping at the last
minute. As the two prepare to leave Ray observes the target's daughter
leave a house, and retools their kidnapping attempt to take the girl.
When Scudder learns of the kidnapping he has TJ bring a box of his old
police equipment to the victim's house, and instructs the victim to
refuse payment unless they can prove the girl is still alive, correctly
guessing that the kidnappers will kill the girl regardless of whether
the ransom is paid. Scudder lures Ray and his accomplice out by forcing
them to pick up the ransom in person. After the ransom is paid, a
shoot-out occurs, injuring Ray. Ray and his partner flee the drop site,
unaware that in the ensuing shoot out TJ managed to sneak into their
van.
At their safe house, Ray attempts to get medical treatment for his
gunshot wounds, however Ray's partner elects to kill him instead. After
TJ calls Scudder with the safe house's location, Scudder and his ad hoc
team arrive, precipitating a brief struggle. Scudder's people
successfully restrain the second man, at which point Scudder instructs
TJ to return to his place. After offering Kenny the chance to turn him
in or obtain his revenge, Kenny opts for the latter, but the restrained
second man escapes and kills Kenny before he can fulfill his wish.
Another struggle ensues between Scudder and the second murderer, which
ends when Scudder shoots the man in the head at close range. The police
arrive to secure the scene and wrap up the case. Scudder then returns to
his apartment, where he finds TJ asleep.
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