# Out of the Furnace (2013)

> A grieving Rust Belt steelworker emerges from prison and enters a brutal moral reckoning to avenge his brother’s destruction.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/movie/99882

## Facts

- Runtime: 116 min
- Genres: Thriller, Drama, Crime
- Director: Scott Cooper
- Cast: Christian Bale, Zoe Saldaña, Woody Harrelson, Sam Shepard, Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker, Casey Affleck, Boyd Holbrook
- TMDB rating: 6.6/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1206543/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: brutal
- Mood: bleak, brooding, harrowing, serious movie night, crime thriller marathon

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