Concept: Married couple struggles to expand their heating fuel business as their competitors resort to violence in early 80s New York City.

• • A more appropriate title would have been “Heating Oil Wars.”
  • Adequate, interesting drama with very good performances all around.
  • Not nearly as violent as the title would indicate.
  • A slow movie, which was compensated by the strong feeling of authenticity.
  • If you think that a movie about heating fuel wars would not be that interesting, you wouldn’t be wrong. But solid direction, performance, and writing make the movie better than it has a right to be.
  • Yep, New York City was as ugly at the time as pictured. I know, because I lived there at the time.
  • The house that the couple lived in was just too big for the amount of money that the characters were supposed to be making; even then, you had to have a lot of money to have a near-mansion like that in New York.
  • Viewed on an Optoma HD28DSE projector, 92” screen, Showtime/Prime Chanel on Roku. Looked just OK on the projector. It could have been that my projector was slightly out of focus again. Or it could have been that the cinematographer made the artistic choice to make the movie feel more like a 1980s film with slightly less sharpness and more garish colors that we would normally expect.
  • Not for kids.

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