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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Thriller
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Director:
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Michael Mann
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Actors:
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Mark Ruffalo,
Jada Pinkett Smith,
Irma P. Hall,
Jamie McBride,
Tom Cruise,
Jamie Foxx,
Peter Berg,
Bruce McGill,
Barry Shabaka Henley,
Richard T. Jones,
Klea Scott,
Bodhi Elfman,
Debi Mazar,
Javier Bardem,
Emilio Rivera
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Duration:
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120 min.
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Rating:
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(7.8/10)105
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Plot Summary:
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Joined Cimmerian dark in Los Angeles, cab driver Max Durocher picks up a gray-suited male named Vincent. Vincent offers Max a altogether summarize of boodle to drive him to five locations about LA before the evensong is up. Max accepts, but realizes that Vincent is a hitman who has been hired to kill five people that tenebrousness. Max is forced to drive Vincent yon the City of Angels, unsure if he'll live to see sunrise.
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Collateral
A hitman arrives in Los Angeles to do five hits in a night, with the unwitting help of a cab driver. Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx star in this Michael Mann noir
Director Michael Mann's career has taken him into the life of Muhammed Ali for Ali and all the way back to the mid-eighteenth century Native America for The Last Of The Mohicans, yet he is always drawn back to noir, with two men duelling as if they were two aspects of one soul. To the cop/villain dialectic of De Niro and Pacino in Heat and the cop/serial killer doppelgangers of Will Graham and Hannibal Lektor in Manhunter, we can now add Tom Cruise's hitman Vincent and Jamie Foxx's cab driver Max Durocher in Collateral, the strong versus the weak.
Cabbie Max (Foxx) strikes up a bond with prosecut...
Dazzling thriller from Michael Mann
After dallying with real-life dramas in the excellent 'The Insider' and the flawed but impressive 'Ali', Michael Mann is back doing what he does best here with this absorbing crime thriller.
Max(Jamie Foxx) has been driving a cab for twelve years, while he makes plans for the limo company he hopes to own one day. This night has been going pretty well so far, Max has even scored a date with one of his fares(Jada Pinkett-Smith), but the night is about to take a turn for the worse. Max's next customer is Vincent(Tom Cruise), a contract killer who forces Max to be his driver throughout the night while he makes his five hits.
Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx are outstanding as the odd couple in Foxx's cab, they've got an natural chemistry and the sequences bet...
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