Word: minahan
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Just what they win, Daniel Minahan, writer-director of Series 7, doesn't say. Neither does he say who, exactly, is controlling the lottery by which contestants are chosen. All we know is that once the masked guys from his fictional TV show The Contenders come knocking at your door, you have no choice but to get up and get busy offing the competition...
...clever film, made for less than $1 million in a digital format, consists entirely of "episodes" from The Contenders, complete with tacky titling and an unctuous, booming narrator. The minor miracle of Minahan's work is that it somehow encourages us to form a sympathetic bond with his main character, Dawn, whose ferocity is touched with a poignant longing for a kinder, gentler life by the splendid Brooke Smith. She is pregnant. She is back in the hometown she left in disgrace some years before. One of the people she is supposed to kill is the only boy she ever...