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STRANGLEHOLD

By Clark DUKE

GREAT ESCAPE - as SALES All rights, World

Action/Adventure - Post-Production 2025

An exotic dancer and her Army vet husband are fed up with their lives of barely getting by, so they impulsively decide to rob the strip club that employs her.

- Year of production
- 2025
- Genres
- Action/Adventure, Crime, Black comedy
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Director(s)
- Clark DUKE
- Cast
- Ashley BENSON, Jake LACY, Justin LONG, Ron PERLMAN
- Producer(s)
- Jordan BECKERMAN, Jordan Yale LEVINE
- Synopsis
- Obsessed with the glamorous influencers she follows on social media and fed up with her life of barely getting by, an exotic dancer named BAILEY (Ashley Benson; "Spring Breakers," "Pretty Little Liars"; 24M Instagram followers) decides to rob the strip club where she works. With the help of her ex-military husband, TIM (Jake Lacy, Emmy® nominee for "The White Lotus"), they quickly plan a heist during the club's Christmas party, hoping they can give their infant daughter a decent holiday and a better life.
  
  ROGER (Ron Perlman, "Hellboy") is the owner of the strip club and he’s also a statewide crime kingpin, tight with the heaviest hitters in the area... all of whom he's invited to his party. Tim and Bailey have been dropped into a lion’s den (one with heavily-armed, debaucherous criminals). The visiting crime bosses think they’ve been set up, that the robbery is some kind of inside job. There’s enough loot on-hand tonight to get everyone killed. When a heist goes this sideways, there's no way to tell which way is up-- or OUT. Can Bailey and Tim trust any of the other club employees to help them survive? Or are they just going to have to rely on each other?
  
  A modern riff on "Dog Day Afternoon," this is a slyly intelligent action film about class warfare and the new American Dream.