Amsterdam (2022) on Netflix
In 1930s New York, doctor Burt Berendsen and lawyer Harold Woodman examine a senator's body at his daughter's request. A killing follows, and the friends are blamed for it.
- Netflix3.4/5
- IMDb6.2/10109,225 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes32%
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Plot summary
Burt Berendsen, a doctor in New York whose practice treats veterans of the Great War, and Harold Woodman, a lawyer, met while both served in France. Elizabeth Meekins asks them to look into the death of her father, Bill Meekins, a senator who once commanded their regiment and who died on a recent trip to Europe. Burt carries out the autopsy and finds poison in the senator's stomach. When the two men meet Elizabeth to report what they found, a killer shoves her into traffic and then blames them for it. The pair flee the arriving police and set out to discover who directed Elizabeth to hire them.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Amsterdam (2022)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film's conspiracy plot is loosely based on the Business Plot, a 1933 scheme to oust President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Robert De Niro's General Gil Dillenbeck is based on General Smedley Butler, who testified about the conspiracy before the McCormack-Dickstein committee in 1934.
- Michael B. Jordan dropped out before production began over scheduling conflicts, and John David Washington was cast as his replacement in October; Jennifer Lawrence and Jamie Foxx were reportedly considered for the roles.
- On the last day of filming, the production kept going after its filming permit ended, and the police had to call "wrap" on the film, according to star Margot Robbie.
- Amsterdam was set to shoot in Boston on a $50 million budget, but moved to Los Angeles when the cast did not want to travel to Boston during the pandemic; the move and COVID precautions inflated the budget to $80 million over 49 shooting days.
- The film shot in Los Angeles while COVID deaths in California topped 2,500 a week, yet the production was completed without a single shutdown, using an air protection protocol implemented by Dr. Sabrina McCormick.
- Much of the ensemble worked for scale, with Christian Bale taking less than his usual $5 million fee while Rami Malek earned a six-figure salary.
