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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

Name: El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Released: 2019
Cast: Aaron Paul, Jesse Plemons, Charles Baker, Matt Jones, Scott MacArthur

A two-hour reckoning with Jesse Pinkman's life after Breaking Bad. Intimate, tense, occasionally brutal—it's a character study dressed as a thriller. For fans who can't let him go, and for anyone curious what comes after a great show ends. Vince Gilligan made the one epilogue that justifies existing.

TMDb rating

3.6

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