Get ready to root for the bad guy.
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.
ActionDramaCrimeThrillerhotelnew york cityprostituterobberybased on novel or bookheroinanti herogreedmoneyrevengeorganized crimedrugs
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Character
Relentless, bleak, unpretentious and grave.
- contemplativerelentless
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
Who loves it, who doesn't
45 profiled raters. Loved most by The Provocateurs; disliked most by The Formalists.
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Cast
- Mel GibsonPorter
- Gregg HenryVal Resnick
- Maria BelloRosie
- David PaymerArthur Stegman
- Bill DukeDet. Hicks
- Deborah Kara UngerMrs. Lynn Porter
- John GloverPhil
- William DevaneCarter
- Lucy LiuPearl
- Kris KristoffersonBronson
Crew
- Brian HelgelandDirector
- Brian HelgelandScreenplay
- Terry HayesScreenplay
- Donald E. WestlakeNovel
- Ericson CoreDirector of Photography
- Chris BoardmanOriginal Music Composer
- Kevin StittEditor
- Bruce DaveyProducer
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Pairings
Companions we picked from the closest works, and how to take them.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Curator Co. Other media included when they land close.
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