DOG EAT DOG (18)

WHO’S IN IT?

Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas), Willem Dafoe (Shadow of the Vampire), Paul Schrader (film debut), Magi Avila (A Better Life), Christopher Matthew Cook (2 Guns), Louisa Krause (Young Adult), Omar Dorsey (The Blind Side), John Patrick Jordan (Evil Bong), Melissa Bolona (In Stereo), Chelsea Mee (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Paul Schrader (American Gigolo), director; Matthew Wilder (Your Name Here), writer; Brian Beckmann (The Courier), Mark Earl Burman (film debut), Gary Hamilton (Long Weekend) and David Hillary (Dead Birds), producers; Alexander Dynan (film debut), cinematographer; Ben Rodriguez Jr. (film debut), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Three men, Troy (Cage), Mad Dog (Dafoe) and Diesel (Cook), are released from prison and are hired by a mobster to kidnap the baby of a rival gangster, which doesn’t entirely go according to plan…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Paul Schrader, the writer of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, returns to the director’s chair for a wild and crazy crime caper that’s fuelled by the power of on-screen duo Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 18TH NOVEMBER 2016

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