In a rundown area of Buenos Aires, at the dawn of the 1980s, Adrian LeDuc owns both a struggling movie theater and a shabby apartment building filled with eccentric, squabbling tenants. To make ends meet, Adrian takes in a roommate, Jack Carney, but soon begins to suspect that the quiet American is responsible for a series of political assassinations that are rocking the city.
Colin Firth
Adrian LeDuc
Hart Bochner
Jack Carney
Dora Bryan
Margaret McKinney
Liz Smith
Mary Louise McKinney
Mirella D'Angelo
Laura Werpachowsky
James Telfer
Vanessa
Fabrizio Bentivoglio
Carlos Sanchez-Verne
Juan Vitali
Alberto Werpachowsky
Cipe Lincovsky
Mrs. Treniev
Francesca D'Aloja
Claudia
Apartment Zero is a thriller, drama, horror film released in 1989 exploring themes of central intelligence agency (cia), distrust, hitman, drag queen, cinema on cinema, cat. Directed by Martin Donovan, it stars Colin Firth, Hart Bochner, Dora Bryan. In a rundown area of Buenos Aires, at the dawn of the 1980s, Adrian LeDuc owns both a struggling movie theater and a shabby apartment building filled with eccentric, squabbling tenants. To make ends meet, Adrian takes in a roommate, Jack Carney, but soon begins to suspect that the quiet American is responsible for a series of political assassinations that are rocking the city.
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