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Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)

Drew Goddard's Bad Times at the El Royale is a noir thriller film that follows an ensemble cast of six strangers who all find themselves spending the night at a border hotel known as the El Royale - each harboring a dark secret that will unfold to the viewers and each other as the night progresses. As the strangers' stories begin to intersect, the Lake Tahoe Hotel's own dark secrets will make their efforts to bury the past a bit more complicated than they'd hoped.

Bad Times at the El Royale
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Mystery
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Director
Drew Goddard
Release Date
October 4, 2018
Studio(s)
20th Century
Distributor(s)
20th Century
Cast
Nick Offerman , Cailee Spaeny , Jeff Bridges , Cynthia Erivo , Jon Hamm , Dakota Johnson , Lewis Pullman , Chris Hemsworth
Writers
Drew Goddard
Runtime
142 Minutes
Budget
$32 Million

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