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The Samaritan
2012
· Movie
· 90 min
F
MEANRANK
45/100
Every rating
26–57
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 26, highest is Kinopoisk on 57. Critics average 32, everyone else 51.
See the most agreed on films →A grifter is released from prison after a twenty-year sentence for killing his partner. He is determined to leave his criminal past behind, but is pulled back into the underworld by his victim's son. The young man pressures him into one last con, a scheme that forces him to confront the ghosts of his past and the violence that defined him.
Details
- Director
- David Weaver
- Writers
- David Weaver, Elan Mastai
- Released
- 2 March 2012
- Country
- Canada, United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $12.0M
- Box office
- $2.5K
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