A Most Violent Year (2014) — Screenplay
In 1981 New York, an immigrant businessman fights to keep his heating-oil company growing while violent corruption threatens his family and everything he's built.
- Written by
- J.C. Chandor
- Genre
- Drama, Crime, Thriller
- Studio
- A24
- Length
- 132 pages
Study this script for its restrained, period-authentic dialogue that captures a city under siege without a single wasted word. J.C. Chandor's structure masterfully builds tension through moral compromise, where every decision tightens the noose around the protagonist's integrity and ambition. A clinic in creating anti-hero sympathy through world-building and precise pacing.
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