Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's day devolves into an odyssey with a cast of characters that start to tear his world apart.
David Cronenberg wrote the script in six days. He has admitted that when he converted the book into screenplay format on his computer, he realized it was so perfect that his only work was to separate dialogs from narration.
Torval:
Where?
Eric Packer:
I wanna a haircut.
Torval:
The president's in town.
Eric Packer:
We don't care. We need a haircut. We need to go crosstown.
Torval:
You will hit traffic that speaks in quarter inches.
Eric Packer:
Just so I know. Which president are we talking about?
Torval:
United States. Barriers will be ...
"An Official Canada-France Co-Production"
English
$20,500,000 (estimated)
$70,339 19 August 2012
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