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The Death and Life of Bobby Z is a american film of genre Drama directed by John Herzfeld released in USA on 4 september 2007 with Laurence Fishburne
The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2007)
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Add to a movie listThe Death and Life of Bobby Z, also known as Bobby Z and Let's Kill Bobby Z, is a 2007 American/German action film, directed by John Herzfeld, and starring Paul Walker, Laurence Fishburne, Olivia Wilde and Joaquim de Almeida. The film received an R rating by the MPAA for violence, some drug use, language and brief nudity. Don Winslow, who wrote the novel on which the film is based, acknowledged that the screen adaption was not successful.
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Synopsis
Don Huertero (Joaquim de Almeida) is a Mexican drug lord. His daughter committed suicide because a drug dealer known as Bobby Z broke her heart. Consequently Don Huertero is out for vengeance.Actors
Laurence Fishburne
(Tad Gruzsa)
Olivia Wilde
(Elizabeth)
Jason Lewis
(Bobby Z)
Joaquim de Almeida
(Don Huertero)
Jason Flemyng
(Brian Cervier)
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