Release Date: October 28, 2011 Studio: Anchor Bay Films Director: Gela Babluani Screenwriter: Gela Babluani Starring: Sam Riley, Ray Winstone, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Alexander Skarsgård, Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham, Michael Shannon Genre: Action MPAA Rating: R (for disturbing violence, language and brief drug use)
Plot Summary: Gela Babluani's remake of his French-language film "13 Tzameti." A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.
Release Date: May 6, 2011 (limited) Studio: Image Entertainment Director: Mitch Glazer Screenwriter: Mitch Glazer Starring: Mickey Rourke, Bill Murray, Megan Fox, Rhys Ifans, Kelly Lynch, Chuck Liddell Genre: Drama
Plot Summary: Nate Poole (Rourke, "The Wrestler," "Iron Man 2") is a washed-up jazz musician fleeing from trigger-happy gangster Happy Shannon (Murray, "Lost in Translation"). While on the run, Nate stumbles across a traveling carnival, and is instantly mesmerized by the carnival's prized attraction, Lily "The Bird Woman" (Fox, "Transformers"). But Lily is no carny fake: her wings are real. The fugitive musician falls in love with this angelic creature, and he convinces her to leave with him, to the anger of her ruthless employer (Ifans, "Notting Hill"). The two flee across the desert, but towards... what? Their destruction? Their salvation?
Written and directed by Mitch Glazer (screenwriter of The Recruit and Scrooged), the film boasts a heavenly cast including Academy Award® nominees Mickey Rourke and Bill Murray, Megan Fox, Rhys Ifans, Kelly Lynch and former UFC sensation, Chuck Liddell. Nate Poole (Rourke, The Wrestler, Iron Man 2) is a washed-up jazz musician fleeing from trigger-happy gangster Happy Shannon (Murray, Lost In Translation). While on the run, Nate stumbles across a traveling carnival, and is instantly mesmerized by the carnival’s prized attraction, Lily “The Bird Woman” (Fox, Transformers). But Lily is no carny fake: her wings are real. The fugitive musician falls in love with this angelic creature, and he convinces her to leave with him, to the anger of her ruthless employer (Ifans, Notting Hill). The two flee across the desert, but towards… what? Their destruction? Their salvation?
