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Commandments

1997, Movie, R, 87 mins

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The music is portentous, the production design gloomy and the cinematography oppressively dreary. Seth Warner (Aidan Quinn) is a latter-day Job, a beleaguered New Yorker whose cosmic run of awful luck begins with the drowning of his beloved wife and ends with a freak tornado sweeping through his house. Naturally, when he takes to the rooftops to wail a cosmic wail of torment, he's struck by lightning. Seth's response to God's torments is to vow he'll break every one of the 1... read more leave a comment
Year: 1997
Rated R

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Cast
Aidan Quinn: Seth Warner
Courteney Cox: Rachel Luce
Anthony LaPaglia: Harry Luce
Shirl Bernheim: Sylvia
Peter Jacobson: Banker
Patrick Garner: Banker

 

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