Death Note
2017
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1h 40min
• Crime, Fantasy
Light Turner (Nat Wolff), still struggling after the violent death of his mom in DEATH NOTE, is an outlier and target of bullies in his Seattle high school. On a stormy day, a weathered leather book falls from the sky. Light picks it up, takes a long look at its tattered pages and eerie title, and then realizes that the book is a terrifying source of magic. The first of many rules listed declares that the present holder of the book has the capacity to kill. He or she must only write down a name, picture the intended target, and then order a death, by any means chosen. Disbelieving, Light looks out the window of his school classroom, sees a despicable bully with a victim in his grasp, and tests the book's decree. What happens next sets Light on an ultimate mission of vengeance. He will rid the world of evil. When the power he exerts ultimately becomes corrupted by both supernatural demon Ryuk (voiced by Willem Dafoe), whom only Light can see, and his one human ally, classmate Mia (Margaret Qualley), only the mysterious "L" (Lakeith Stanfield), a detective of unsurpassable skills, can stop the mayhem.
