Drive (2011 film)

Drive is a 2011 American neonoir crime drama film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, starring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman, Oscar Isaac and Albert Brooks. It is adapted from the 2005 James Sallis novel of the same name, with a screenplay by Hossein Amini.

The unnamed driver Ryan Gosling, who lives in an Echo Park, Los Angeles apartment, works repairing cars and as a parttime movie double. Managed in both jobs by auto shop owner Shannon Bryan Cranston, the duo also provides a getaway driver service. With Shannon organizing the events, the driver gives criminals only five minutes to perpetrate robberies and reach his car. After meeting his new neighbor, Irene Carey Mulligan, the driver soon becomes close to her and befriends her young son, Benicio Kaden Leos, while Irenes husband, Standard Gabriel Oscar Isaac, is in prison. After her husband is freed, Irene still asks the driver to visit them.Shannon persuades Jewish mobsters Bernie Rose Albert Brooks and Nino Ron Perlman to purchase a stock car chassis and build it for the driver to race. Irenes husband, owing protection money from his time in prison, is beaten up by Albanian gangster Cook James Biberi, who demands that Standard rob a pawnshop for 40,000 to pay the debt. The gangster gives the young boy Benicio a bullet as a symbol that he and his mother are in danger. The driver, concerned for the safety of Irene and Benicio, steals a Ford Mustang and offers to act as the getaway driver for the pawnshop job. ........

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