Out of the Furnace (2013)

Directed by

Scott Cooper

Genre

drama film, prison film, thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 56m

Rated

R

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 2,150 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A steel mill worker named Russell Baze gets out of prison. He then searches for his missing brother Rodney, a war veteran who got involved in the world of bare knuckle fighting with a dangerous drug dealer.

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What happens

Out of the Furnace is a 2013 American rural noir crime thriller drama film directed by Scott Cooper, from a screenplay he cowrote with Brad Ingelsby. Starring Christian Bale, Woody Harrelson, Casey Affleck, Forest Whitaker, Willem Dafoe, Zoë Saldana, and Sam Shepard, the film follows Russell Baze (Bale), an ex-con steel mill worker in the Appalachian/Rust Belt region of Pennsylvania searching for his missing brother Rodney (Affleck), an Iraq War veteran who disappeared after engaging in a bare knuckle fighting match arranged by John Petty (Dafoe), an indebted bar owner, and Harlan DeGroat (Harrelson), a ruthless drug dealer from rural New Jersey. Out of the Furnace was theatrically released in the United States on December 6, 2013, and was a box office failure, grossing $15.7 million against its $22 million production budget. Despite mixed reviews from critics, the performances of the cast was widely praised. Affleck was nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture at the 18th Satellite Awards, while the film was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Independent Film at the 40th Saturn Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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