Winter Kills
1979 · Movie · R · 97 min · ★ 5.8 · 84% critics
After a dying man claims responsibility for a long-ago presidential assassination, the president’s younger brother is pulled into a strange hunt for the truth. Each lead opens up more paranoia, power games, and dead ends in a darkly comic conspiracy maze.
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Details
- Years
- 1979
- Release date
- 1979-05-11
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 84/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.8/10 (60 votes)
About
You may enjoy this if you like weird, darkly funny conspiracy stories with a paranoid edge, especially near After Hours or The Curse; Not for you if you need tidy, straightforward thrills.
Pros: dry dark humor; twisty conspiracy setup; memorable cast energy | Cons: confusing by design; uneven entertainment value; not for everyone
Themes
- assassination of president
Cast & crew
Jeff Bridges
as Nick Kegan
John Huston
as Pa Kegan
Anthony Perkins
as John Cerruti
Eli Wallach
as Joe Diamond
Sterling Hayden
as Z.K. Dawson
Dorothy Malone
as Emma Kegan
Tomas Milian
as Frank Mayo
Belinda Bauer
as Yvette Malone
Ralph Meeker
as Gameboy Baker
Toshirō Mifune
as Keith
Directed by William Richert