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    Very Big Shot

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    Poster of the movie Very Big Shot
    Film Kteer Kbeer
    Lebanon/Qatar
    2015     Drama    
    1h 47min
    Original language: Afghan

    Brothers Ziad (Alain Saadeh) and Joe (Tarek Yaacoub) run a small but lucrative drug-dealing business out of their takeout pizzeria in one of Beirut's working-class districts. With their youngest brother Jad (Wissam Fares) about to be released from prison -- where he was serving a sentence for a crime that Ziad had committed -- Ziad and Joe plan to go straight by using their coke-peddling profits to open a restaurant. But Ziad's supplier, a powerful drug lord who is none too keen to see his dealers retire, convinces the brothers to take on one last job: smuggling a million-dollar shipment of a locally manufactured amphetamine to Syria, where the drug is wildly popular with militia fighters.

    Smelling a trap, Ziad, Joe, and Jad hatch a plan to divert the shipment to Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan, where they have a secure connection. By chance, they learn that cans of exposed film reels are spared the obligatory X-ray scanning at the Beirut airport, as the radiation can wipe the footage. Overnight, the three brothers become the producers of a feature film directed by Charbel (Fouad Yammine), a talentless filmmaker and frequent customer whose tab at the pizzeria has vastly exceeded his means. As the shipping date approaches, the boys race to finalize the details of their very big plan while warding off the suspicions of their vengeful boss.

    Directed byMir-Jean Bou Chaaya
    Written byMir-Jean Bou Chaaya, Alain Saadeh

    Starring

    Wissam Fares
    Alexandra Kahwagi
    Alain Saadeh
    Tarek Yaacoub
    Fouad Yammine

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