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Blood Ties is a 2013 crime thriller film directed by Guillaume Canet and starring Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Marion Cotillard, Mila Kunis and Matthias Schoenaerts. It is a remake of the 2008 French thriller film Les liens du sang by Jacques Maillot, an adaptation of the French novel Deux frères: flic & truand by Bruno and Michel Papet. The screenplay was written by Canet and James Gray. The film was selected to be screened out of competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. The film is a co-production between France and the United States. It was released in France by Mars Distribution on October 30, 2013, and by Roadside Attractions in the United States on March 21, 2014.
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Plot
In 1974, Chris Pierzynski is furloughed from prison after serving twelve years for murdering a rapist and killer he caught in the act, and moves in with his brother Frank, who is a New York Police detective. Chris reconnects with his ex-wife Monica, who has become a drug-addicted prostitute. They have a son and a daughter. Their sister Marie, and their sick father Leon, want Chris and Frank to just get along with each other.
