Piercing(2019)

R
Rated R for aberrant violent and sexual content, nudity, and language
1h 21m

Release Date: Feb 1, 2019 | Limited

A man kisses his wife and baby goodbye and seemingly heads away on business, with a plan to check into a hotel, call an escort service, and kill an unsuspecting prostitute.

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Releases

Original Release | Feb 1, 2019

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Box Office Results

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$8,752
Total US & Canada:
$15,856
Total International
$133,355
Total Worldwide:
$149,211

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Director & Top Cast

Nicolas Pesce
Director

Dakota Lustick
Young Reed

Technical Specifications

Aspect Ratio: 1.78 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English,Portuguese

Summaries

Storyline

Outwardly, Reed leads a typical yuppie life living in a stylish apartment with his wife Mona and their newborn daughter, it afforded by a white collar professional career. But Reed has a need not only to kill, but kill in a specific way, with an ice pick. Rather than his initial target, he instead chooses as his victim an English speaking prostitute. On the pretense of an out of town conference, he leaves home, and instead checks into an upscale hotel, goes through the motions of the murder to ensure that that part of it goes off without a hitch, and hires his target prostitute through a service, the intended victim named Jackie. What Reed does not anticipate is that Jackie has her own agenda for their time together, which he at times believes is on her knowledge and acceptance of her fate at his hands. Regardless, what ensues is a psychological cat and mouse game between the two, it never clear who is the mouse and who is the cat. — Huggo After kissing his wife and baby goodbye for a seemingly normal business trip, Reed (Abbott) checks himself into a hotel room to accomplish something he's always dreamed of: the perfect murder. As his sinister plans unfold, he soon realises he might be in over his head with a mysteriously unhinged call girl named Jackie (Wasikowska).