# The Gingerbread Man (1998)

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**Runtime**: 114 min
**Genres**: Thriller
**Directed by**: Robert Altman
**Written by**: John Grisham, Clyde Hayes
**Starring**: Kenneth Branagh, Embeth Davidtz, Robert Downey Jr., Daryl Hannah, Tom Berenger, Famke Janssen

> *Based on an original story by John Grisham.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Moonlit riverfront Savannah sidewalk. A single broken cookie tin rattles against a wrought-iron bench.

After hours the lawyer follows the waitress through neon-lit alleys where taillights flare like bloodstains, each step flaking off another layer of frosting from the lies.

Altman’s southern Gothic noir steeps in thawing sugar and rattling metal.

**Mood tags**: neon-soaked, paranoid, raw

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