A Most Violent Year (2014)

A Most Violent Year

J.C. Chandor's crime drama set during New York City's most violent year on record. Immigrant heating-oil magnate Abel Morales tries to close a career-defining deal and grow his business honestly while hijackings bleed his trucks, a criminal indictment closes in, and his wife Anna pushes him toward the violence he has spent his career avoiding. Oscar Isaac stars as Morales opposite Jessica Chastain as Anna and David Oyelowo as the assistant district attorney building the case against him. (IMDb)

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Rolex Day-Date

Worn by Oscar Isaac as Abel Morales. Montres de Luxe identifies Morales's watch as a yellow-gold Rolex Day-Date, no reference stated, and frames the choice as period-appropriate shorthand: in 1981, the Day-Date was "the" watch of a man who had already made it, which suits an immigrant businessman chasing outward signs of legitimate success while the film's title violence closes in around him. (Montres de Luxe)

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