New York, 1981. An ambitious immigrant, Abel Morales and his wife Anna run a heating oil company, which they plan to use to buy a strategic piece of waterfront property. But the deal is threatened by a series of violent hijackings of their trucks, slowly ruining their good reputations and making them seem like their corrupt competitors. As Anna tries to talk him into using violence and corruption himself, Abel resists applying the same tactics as the gangsters that dominate the industry.

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In just a few years, A Most Violent Year is too conventional and too classic to live up to its reputation.