Sentences with word «ex-con»

Outside In (Unrated) Romance drama about the taboo love affair between a recently - paroled ex-con (Jay Duplass) and a married, high school teacher (Edie Falco) he hasn't seen since being sent up the river 20 years ago.

Nelly plays an ex-con rapper who sings the praises of «Reach Me» to one and all — mostly nearby El Segundo and Redondo Beach, where the film is set and was shot.

As Bradley Thomas, a bald - headed ex-con who gets sent to jail after a series of semi-tragic criminal mishaps, Vaughn fills the frame with his body, occasionally contorting his limbs for comedy but mostly thrusting them at his enemies in the movie's patiently filmed, incredibly graphic action set - pieces.

After a relentless grizzly starts to wreak havoc on a small town, the sheriff heads into the forest to find his ecologist wife but instead crosses paths with his estranged, ex-con brother.

The emotionally and physically charged lives of three people - a college professor (Sean Penn), an ex-con (Benicio Del Toro) and a young mother with a reckless past (Naomi Watts)- collide unexpectedly in this gripping suspense thriller.

There's an uneasy relationship between the town and the tribe, which is fighting for formal recognition from the government while struggling with poverty and crime, that is exacerbated by a forbidden romance between the cop's teenage daughter and the ex-con's young half - brother.

Bob's tenderness and respect confuses her as she faces the destiny she knows and accepts, which, when she becomes the victim of sociopathic ex-con Eric Deeds (intense and scary Matthias Schoenaerts, «Blood Ties») is to do what she must to survive.

A citywide bomb threat forces undercover cop Damien Collier (Paul Walker) and ex-con Lino (David Belle) to make their way inside the wall to find and deactivate a massive explosive device.

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The events of 2016's Captain America: Civil War, unsurprisingly, loom large over the teaser trailer, not only because the blockbuster left ex-con Scott Lang a fugitive — he and Steve Rogers» other allies were imprisoned at the Raft, and then broken out — but because his actions had consequences for those around him.

Wilson is no debonair military man, though, he's an ex-con looking for answers, and he's willing to use extreme methods to get what he's after.

Inside Out (PG - 13 for violence and profanity) Crime drama about a recently - paroled ex-con (Triple H) forced to protect his best friend's (Michael Rapaport) family from a crime boss (Bruce Dern) bent on revenge for an accidental shooting.

Cage does such justice to the role as both an ex-con and unlikely mentor.

This time the ex-con and the agent are forced to bury the hatchet and team up in order to capture a common enemy.

Easygoing charmer Rene (Paul Rudd) clashes with misanthropic ex-con Dennis (Paul Giamatti), whose wife Rene just stole.

Caine is an ex-con who literally shuts down Turin, Italy to steal a truckload of gold with the aid of computers, a huge gang and three red, white and blue Mini-Coopers.

The first trailer focuses on a recently released ex-con (Jack Raynor), who owes some shady men (Franco and his crew) money.

In the underworld of El Paso, Texas, a familiar face introduces an ex-con named John Wick to the local branch of the mysterious -LSB-...]

The movie follows a recently released ex-con and his younger brother, who are forced to go on the run from a vengeful criminal, the government, and otherworldly soldiers, have to defend themselves by using a mysterious weapon of an unknown origin.

Three mismatched New Yorkers — genial, corrupt ex-cop Dave (Ed Begley), brutal ex-con Earl (Robert Ryan) and reckless Johnny (Harry Belafonte), a nightclub entertainer with huge gambling debts — join forces for an upstate bank robbery, a well - planned heist that will supposedly solve all their money problems.

Mitchum's Max Cady is an ex-con looking to even the score with the man he blames for his jail time; he's nuts but hides it so well.

In the third film in the set, Naschy plays Gilles, an ex-con who is running from his past, always on the move and looking for work.

The first such sequence occurs early in the film, when the recently - released ex-con Petey and his fiery, devoted girlfriend, Vernell (Taraji P. Henson), meet Dewey Hughes (Chiwetel Ejiofor), the program director of the R&B music station WOL, at a local poolroom.

Go for Sisters (Unrated) John Sayles wrote and directed this missing persons thriller about recovering a parole officer (LisaGay Hamilton) who enlists the assistance of an ex-con (Yolonda Ross) she knew as a child and a disgraced, former LAPD detective (Edward James Olmos) when her son (McKinley Belcher III) goes missing in Tijuana.

From director Ryan Prows, this is about the sordid lives of an addict, an ex-con, and a luchador that collide when an organ harvesting caper goes very, very wrong.

For his next feature, Reitman is directing Kate Winslet, Tobey Maguire, and Josh Brolin in a film about a young boy and his agoraphobic mother whose lives are turned upside down when an ex-con enters the picture.

Nicolas Cage (Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Trespass) plays the titular character, an ex-con who has managed to turn his life around, despite his tendencies toward a violent temper and antisocial behavior.

Although he's hailed as a small - town hero, Dane soon finds himself fearing for his family's safety when Freddy's ex-con father, Ben (Sam Shepard), rolls into town, hell - bent on revenge.

Walters will portray Shelly's mother, Victoria, a former society type now feeling the aftereffects of years of hard living who is manic, off her meds and living with an alcoholic ex-con.

Sandra Bullock was the first name attached to the project, and we later learned that she would be playing Danny Ocean's sister, who also happens to be a charming ex-con just like her brother.

The Collector corners Brayker at an out - of - the - way hotel peopled with the usual suspects, like the ball - breaking proprietor, Irene (CCH Pounder), lovers Cordelia (Brenda Bakke) and Roach (Thomas Haden Church), resident alcoholic Uncle Willy (that guy Dick Miller), and ex-con cleaning woman Jeryline (Jada Pinkett, pre-Smith).

Kai Wang (Railroad Tigers) is an ex-con trying to patch up his life after being released from prison in this Chinese actioner from director Ding Sheng (Saving Mr. Wu).

But the finer performances go to supporting players like Jon Bernthal (World Trade Center, «The Walking Dead») as an ex-con trying to clean up his life after many mistakes, and Barry Pepper (True Grit, Casino Jack) as an undercover DEA agent walking a fine line trying to keep Matthews alive while the U.S. Attorney wants to reel in even bigger players in the drug cartel, regardless of the collateral damage their actions may cause.

The Gist: The final work we'll see from the late James Gandolfini, the film formerly known as «Animal Rescue» is the English language debut of «Bullhead» director Roskham, and follows an ex-con who finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry.

PLOT: An ex-con (Pellegrino) finds himself caught up in a murder investigation after falling for the wrong woman (Witt).

The film sees ex-con Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) recruited by Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), the former superhero, albeit a superhero that the world never knew.

Moreover, Nicolas Cage has been cast in the lead role of Joe, an ex-con who «becomes the unlikeliest of role...

Paul Rudd stars as Scott Lang, a good - hearted ex-con who's been reduced to working fast - food jobs and sharing a dingy apartment with his motor - mouthed former cellmate, Luis (Michael Peña).

This uncomfortable and predictable melodrama concerns a plucky ex-con desperately attempting to go straight.

Directed by David Gordon Green, the film brings Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage back to his indie roots in the title role as the hard - living, hot - tempered, ex-con Joe Ransom, who is just trying to dodge his instincts for trouble — until he meets a hard - luck kid (Tye Sheridan) who awakens in him a fierce and tender - hearted protector.

Duets is the first feature about karaoke I've seen, and Byrum uses it as a suggestive metaphor for the dreams of three sets of characters who've lost their way in terms of their personal and family identities: a karaoke hustler (Huey Lewis) who meets his daughter — a Vegas showgirl played by Paltrow — for the first time at the funeral of her mother; a traveling salesman (Paul Giamatti) who flips his lid after flying to Houston instead of Orlando and then going home to an indifferent wife and kids, and who eventually splits and hooks up with an ex-con (Andre Braugher); and a young cabdriver (Scott Speedman) who reluctantly agrees to drive a waitress and part - time hooker (Maria Bello) out west.

It's not to last for much longer, as Ivan Vanko (Rourke, Stormbreaker), a Russian physicist and ex-con whose idle time is spent mostly plotting to take down Stark for what he and his late father have done to the Vanko family during the corporation's formative history.

Haddish co-stars with Tracy Morgan in a story about an ex-con trying to adjust when he returns to his old Brooklyn neighborhood.

It emphasizes the conflict at the core of Scott's «career» as Ant - Man — does the ex-con choose family over helping others?

Which makes it all the more likely that «Manglehorn» — a Texas - set story of an ex-con trying to go straight — his the festival circuit this Fall.

The film follows an ex-con, Nick Burke, as he attempts to re-adjust to life outside of prison.

Kai Wang is an ex-con trying to patch up his life after being released from prison in this Chinese actioner from Ding Sheng.

Who We Are Now (Unrated) Tale of redemption revolving around an ex-con's (Julianne Nicholson) attempt to regain custody of her son with the help of a public defender (Emma Roberts) after spending a decade behind bars for manslaughter.

Revanche (Unrated) Crime saga, set in Austria, revolving around an ex-con (Johannes Krisch) determined to avenge the shooting of his prostitute girlfriend (Irina Potapenko) by a cop (Andreas Lust) during a bank robbery.

Reynolds (Cannonball Run II, Smokey and the Bandit II) plays Ernest «Stick» Stickley, an ex-con recently released in the city of Miami who soon finds himself back in the thick of trouble when helping out an old friend in a drug deal gone bad.