The Convincer (2011)
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Directors
Jill Sprecher
Cast
Billy Crudup, Lea Thompson, Alan Arkin, Greg Kinnear, Bob Balaban
The story
Wisconsin insurance salesman Mickey Prohaska is in desperate financial straits. His wife JoAnn has thrown him out of the house, and he is willing to do or say practically anything to sell anybody a policy. Mickey accompanies another insurance agent he has just met, Bob Egan, to the farm of an elderly man named Gorvy Hauer.
Genres
Crime, Drama, comedy film, crime film
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