Seven Psychopaths

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black comedy film crime film film

Seven Psychopaths is a darkly comedic crime film written and directed by Martin McDonagh that follows a struggling screenwriter who becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his eccentric friends kidnap a gangster’s beloved dog.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	black comedy film → crime film → film →
basedInPartOn	original screenplay by Martin McDonagh →
castMember	Abbie Cornish → Christopher Walken → Colin Farrell → Gabourey Sidibe → Olga Kurylenko → Sam Rockwell → Tom Waits → Woody Harrelson → Zeljko Ivanek →
character	Angela → Billy Bickle → Charlie Costello → Hans Kieslowski → Kaya → Marty Faranan → Zachariah Rigby →
cinematographyBy	Ben Davis →
countryOfOrigin	United Kingdom → United States →
director	Martin McDonagh →
distributor	CBS Films →
editedBy	Lisa Gunning →
fictionalOccupation	screenwriter →
filmingLocation	California → Los Angeles →
genre	black comedy → crime → metafiction →
hasTheme	crime → friendship → violence → writer’s block →
language	English →
mainCharacter	Marty Faranan →
musicBy	Carter Burwell →
narrativeDevice	film within a film →
notableFor	self-referential screenplay about psychopaths being written within the film’s story →
plotSummary	A struggling screenwriter becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his friends kidnap a gangster’s beloved dog. →
producer	Graham Broadbent → Peter Czernin →
releaseEvent	Toronto International Film Festival →
setting	Los Angeles →
writer	Martin McDonagh →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Christopher Walken → Colin Farrell → Sam Rockwell →	notableWork