A24 has released a new trailer and poster for J.C. Chandor‘s upcoming movie A Most Violent Year starring Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac. The movie will open the upcoming AFI Film Festival this Thursday, November 6 before opening in NY and LA on December 31, expanding nationwide in January 2015.
Set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically the most dangerous year in the city’s history the story plays out within a maze of rampant political and industry corruption plaguing the streets of a city in decay, following the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.
Watch two new trailers and check out the poster below.
