# F/X (1986)

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**Runtime**: 109 min
**Genres**: Action, Thriller
**Directed by**: Robert Mandel
**Written by**: Robert T. Megginson, Gregory Fleeman
**Starring**: Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Diane Venora, Cliff DeYoung, Mason Adams, Jerry Orbach

> *Murder by illusion.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Late autumn Manhattan. A strobe from a Times Square billboard flickers against the rain-slicked windshield.

A freelance FX artist gets pulled into a sting—fake a mob boss’s murder for a government cover-up. Then Washington betrays him, so he stages a second death, this one real.

The trickster trapped by his own illusions.

**Mood tags**: paranoid, raw

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