Vince Ferro (Sam Riley), the protagonist of the Georgian director Gela Babluani's ''13,'' is a part-time electrician whose family may have to sell its home in Ohio to pay his father's medical bills. While on the job, he overhears his employer discussing a mysterious get-rich-quick scheme. After his boss dies of a drug overdose, Vince picks up an...
Can a hard-living loser with the face of a smashed pumpkin find redemption in the arms of a real-life earth angel? That is the silly question floating through ''Passion Play,'' a fatuous noir-flavored reverie with allegorical pretensions written and directed by Mitch Glazer. Set in the desert at places with portentous names like the Dream Lounge,...
On the very weekend that his younger sister Julia undertakes a spiritual and culinary quest around the globe in ''Eat Pray Love,'' Eric Roberts, also well within his actorly comfort zone, plays an especially despicable villain in ''The Expendables,'' the new film by Sylvester Stallone. Mr. Roberts is James Munroe, a renegade C.I.A. guy holding the...
Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke, Jr. (født 16. september 1952) er en amerikansk skuespiller, manuskriptforfatter og tidligere bokser. For sin rolle i The Wrestler vandt Rourke en BAFTA Award, en Golden Globe Award og blev nomineret til en Oscar for bedste mandlige hovedrolle og Screen Actors Guild Award.