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The Ax

Bruno loved his job as a middle manager at a paper company, but optimistically views being laid off as an opportunity. After two years of searching for a comparable position, optimism turns to desperation. His wife works two jobs, and their marriage slowly deteriorates as their hold on the middle class slips away. Bruno concocts a grimly audacious plan to identify and kill his fellow job applicants so that he is the only qualified person left.

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Box Office

Budget: $5,400,000
Revenue: $4,900,000
ROI: -9.3%

Verdict: Flop

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Crew

Directors

> Costa-Gavras (Director)
> Patrick Blossier (Director of Photography)

Writers

> Costa-Gavras (Screenplay)
> Jean-Claude Grumberg (Screenplay)
> Donald E. Westlake (Novel)