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Drive
Driver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming up to a pretty neighbor named Irene and her young son, Benicio. When Irene's husband gets out of jail, he enlists Driver's help in a million-dollar heist. The job goes horribly wrong, and Driver must risk his life to protect Irene and Benicio from the vengeful masterminds behind the robbery.
2011 · Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn · 100 min · Drama · Thriller · Crime · Screenplay in the scene database · 37 frames
Tagline
There are no clean getaways.
Plot
A man in Los Angeles (billed as "The Driver") works as a mechanic, stunt double, and criminal-for-hire getaway driver. His jobs are all managed by auto shop owner Shannon, who persuades Jewish-American mobster Bernie Rose and his half-Italian partner Nino "Izzy" Paolozzi to purchase a stock car for the Driver to race as a legitimate business for them all.
The Driver grows close to his new neighbor, Irene, and her young son, Benicio, but their relationship is interrupted when Irene's husband, Standard Gabriel, is released from prison. While in prison, Standard owed protection money to an Albanian gangster named Cook, who demands Standard rob a pawn shop for $40,000 to pay off the debt, threatening to harm Benicio and Irene. Driver offers to act as the getaway driver for Standard and Blanche, Cook's accomplice.
At the pawn shop, Blanche exits with a bag of money, but Standard is killed by the store owner. Another car waiting in the parking lot immediately pursues them, but Driver shakes it off. Hiding at a motel, a suspicious Driver forces Blanche to admit she and Cook planned to take the money for themselves, and Cook's henchmen were in the waiting car. She also reveals the bag holds $1 million. Informed by her text messages, two gunmen locate the motel room and one kills Blanche. Driver, in return, kills both gunmen.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Hossein Amini
- Cinematography: Newton Thomas Sigel
- Edited by: Matthew Newman
- Music: Cliff Martinez
- Production design: Beth Mickle
- Produced by: Michel Litvak, John Palermo, Marc Platt, Gigi Pritzker
Cast
- Ryan Gosling as Driver
- Carey Mulligan as Irene
- Bryan Cranston as Shannon
- Albert Brooks as Bernie Rose
- Oscar Isaac as Standard
- Christina Hendricks as Blanche
- Ron Perlman as Nino
- Kaden Leos as Benicio
- Jeff Wolfe as Tan Suit
- James Biberi as Cook
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: FilmDistrict, Bold Films, Marc Platt Productions, OddLot Entertainment
- Budget: $15,000,000
- Box office: $79,713,640
- Themes: robbery, car mechanic, stuntman, beaten to death, revenge, organized crime, neighbor, police chase, los angeles, california, brutality
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