If you loved The 51st State, try Big Nothing
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Theyboth carry the pitch black, playful mood tags, and they sit in Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to The 51st State, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Big Nothing is
Oregon. Winter. A ringing telephone. A freshly jobless academic, lured into petty crime by a grifter and his nihilistic paramour. The trio's blackmail plot spirals into kidnapping, then clumsy murder, then frantic cover-up. Dark and twisty, in a Coen Brothers vein.

