The Drop, based on Dennis Lehane’s short story Animal Rescue, marks the final screen role for James Gandolfini, who stars alongside the always excellent Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace.
Now the international trailer and a poster has arrived for the movie. You can see the latter above and the former below.
Here’s the synopsis: ‘THE DROP is a new crime drama from Michaël R. Roskam, the Academy Award nominated director of BULLHEAD. Based on a screenplay from Dennis Lehane (MYSTIC RIVER, GONE BABY GONE), THE DROP follows lonely bartender Bob Saginowski (Tom Hardy) through a covert scheme of funnelling cash to local gangsters – “money drops” – in the underworld of Brooklyn bars. Under the heavy hand of his employer and cousin Marv (James Gandolfini), Bob finds himself at the centre of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighbourhood’s past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living – no matter the cost.
‘THE DROP will be released in UK cinemas on November 14, 2014.’ [Read more…]
Previously known as Animal Rescue (but understandably retitled as this is more crime thriller than a movie about saving cute critters), The Drop is also the final screen role for James Gandolfini, who stars alongside Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace.
James Gandolfini, most famous for The Sopranos, has passed away at the age of 51. He suffered an apparent heart attack in Rome while the actor was on holiday, although no official cause of death has been released.
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