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Ms .45

Ms .45

Action Thriller Crime

1981, Movie, 1h 21min

Abel Ferrara’s exploitation-scuzz classic takes place in the cesspool of 1980s New York, where mute garment-district worker Thana (Zoë Lund, who also cowrote Ferrara’s BAD LIEUTENANT) is raped once, twice—and then something snaps. Packing a pistol and clad in leather (and later a nun’s habit), Thana handily wastes a good chunk of Manhattan’s male population, while Ferrara and Lund, at once reveling in and subverting the film’s grindhouse trappings, forge a feminist statement in extremis.

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In this cult classic, a mute seamstress named Thana is brutally raped twice in one day. She then takes justice into her own hands, arming herself with a .45 caliber pistol and prowling the streets of New York City at night, randomly killing any man who tries to pick her up. As her body count rises, Thana becomes a vigilante, targeting men who mistreat women, and her actions spark a wave of panic throughout the city. Will she be able to exact her revenge without getting caught, or will her crusade ultimately lead to her downfall?

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Ms .45 include No Mercy, Dirty Harry III: The Enforcer, Rolling Thunder, Outland, Raw Deal, Lassiter.

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Ms .45 was released in theaters on April 24, 1981.