| The
Nickel Ride
Written
by Eric Roth, “Forrest Gump”, “Ali”,
“Munich” & “The Curious
Case of Benjamin Button;" The Nickel
Ride is a tightly constructed, dark &
dreary neo noir crime story combining the loser,
lower rings of the crime world view of “The
Friends of Eddie Coyle” with. In many ways,
an even darker kind of neo-realism than the Friends
of Eddie Coyle. An unknown existential classic
among early 70’s crime films
The story concerns a gangster who helps the mob
find warehouses for their “goods”.
He manages the properties after he acquires them,
which makes him a fairly important underling in
the L.A. crime world. He is asked to find more
space and ends up taking too long to deliver,
an act that leads his bosses to grow suspicious
of him and ultimately to try and kill him.
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