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makes a

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in the picture.

Plot

A group of friends steal a valuable statuette for a ruthless art dealer. The amateur thieves botch the delivery of the statuette and the art dealer demands that they pay him $1 million by the end of the week or face the consequences: certain death. Desperate, the friends decide to take out a $1 million life insurance policy on one of themselves with the idea that if one of them is sacrificed, the others will collect on the policy and be able pay off the art dealer. What follows is a reckoning: The friends enter into a lethal lottery to choose who will be the victim and who will be the killer.

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* * 2000 films 2000 crime drama films 2000 crime thriller films 2000s mystery films American crime drama films American mystery films Films scored by Brian Tyler 2000 directorial debut films Warner Bros. direct-to-video films 2000s English-language films 2000s American films English-language crime drama films English-language crime thriller films English-language mystery films {{Crime-thriller-film-stub