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The Drop <\/strong><\/em>(2014)<\/p>\n Director:\u00a0 Micha\u00ebl R. Roskam<\/strong><\/p>\n Writer:\u00a0 Dennis Lehane <\/strong>based on his 2009 short story “Animal Rescue”<\/em><\/p>\n Stars: Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, James Gandolfini, John Ortiz, Matthias Schoenaerts, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Chris Sullivan, Jeremy Bobb<\/strong>\u00a0and James Colby<\/strong> Tagline: None<\/p>\n The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Bob Saginowski (Hardy) is a mild mannered bartender.\u00a0 He works in his cousin Marv’s bar.\u00a0 Well, it used to be Marv’s, back when Marv was the local tough guy.\u00a0 Everyone knew Marv.\u00a0 He was into a little bit of everything that made money, but Marv was a big fish in a small pond.\u00a0 That was then. Now the bar is Marv’s in name only. A\u00a0 Chechen gang calls the shots.\u00a0 The Chechens use the bar as a drop spot for illegal money.<\/p>\n When Bob finds an abused puppy, he and Nadia nurse it back to health.\u00a0 Bob keeps the puppy and begins a relationship with Nadia (Rapace).\u00a0 Things go south when Eric Deeds (Schoenaerts) shows up.\u00a0 Deeds is rumored to have killed someone from the neighborhood years ago.\u00a0 Everyone knows Deeds is a violent nut.\u00a0 Bob learns that Deeds was Nadia’s former boyfriend and the one who abused the puppy.\u00a0 Deeds wants money or else…<\/p>\n When the bar is robbed, the Chechens inform Marv and Bob that the stolen money is expected to be returned or heads (and other body parts) will roll.\u00a0 The Chechens think Marv and maybe Bob were behind the robbery.\u00a0 Plus time is running out before Eric Deeds shows up for his money.<\/p>\n Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n I read Dennis Lehane’s short story, Animal Rescue<\/em>, before seeing The Drop<\/em>.\u00a0 I loved the story and was happy to see the film live up to my expectations.\u00a0 This is my favorite Tom Hardy film.\u00a0 Hardy is usually an imposing figure so it was cool to see him play the mild mannered, somewhat slow of thought, Bob Saginowski to perfection.\u00a0 This was James Gandolfini’s last film.\u00a0 His role is totally opposite of Tony Soprano and Gandolfini nails it.<\/p>\n The Drop <\/strong><\/em>earns 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n The Drop (2014) Director:\u00a0 Micha\u00ebl R. Roskam Writer:\u00a0 Dennis Lehane based on his 2009 short story “Animal Rescue” Stars: Tom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31813"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31941,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31813\/revisions\/31941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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