The Ax(2005)

movie - first aired/released 2005-03-02 - 118 min - audience 6.9

Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Directed by Costa-Gavras

Bruno loved his job as a middle manager at a paper company, but optimistically views being laid off as an opportunity. After two years of searching for a comparable position, optimism turns to desperation. His wife works two jobs, and their marriage slowly deteriorates as their hold on the middle class slips away. Bruno concocts a grimly audacious plan to identify and kill his fellow job applicants so that he is the only qualified person left.