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Synopsis

Driver is a stunt driver by day and a getaway driver by night. Doesn’t matter what job he does, Driver is most comfortable behind the wheel of a car. Shannon is part mentor, part manager for Driver. Since he knows what a great talent Driver is behind the wheel, he either peddles him to film and television directors in the entertainment business or thieves who need an accomplished getaway driver, taking a cut for his own pockets.

Always looking to make a buck, Shannon’s current plan is funding a stock car that Driver can race on the professional circuit. Since Bernie Rose is the wealthiest guy he knows, even if the sources of his money are questionable, Shannon proposes he be their investor. After seeing Driver in action at the speedway, Bernie Rose insists Nino partners with them as well. Primarily a loner and ambivalent about the deals Shannon makes for him, Driver’s world changes the day he shares an elevator ride at his apartment building with Irene.

When he sees her again at the grocery store with her young son, Benicio, he is transfixed, and willingly offers help when they are stranded in the parking lot because Irene’s car won’t start. Soon Driver settles into a routine of driving Irene to her waitress job and watching Benicio, entangled in their lives while her car is fixed. This interlude in Driver’s life abruptly stops when Standard, Irene’s husband, is let out early from prison for good behavior. Even though nothing has happened between Driver and Irene, Standard is threatened by another man’s presence in his family’s life. Driver backs off, respectful of Irene’s desire to keep her family together, but when he finds Standard bloodied and lying in the garage with a scared Benicio standing next to his father, Driver is embroiled even further in Irene’s life.

Then trouble begins...

Cast

Ryan Gosling ... Driver
Carey Mulligan ... Irene
Ron Perlman ... Nino
Christina Hendricks ... Blanche
Bryan Cranston ... Shannon
Albert Brooks ... Bernie Rose
Oscar Isac ... Standard Guzman
Christian Cage ... Christian
Kaden Leos ... Benicio

What They're Saying...

"... Part love story, part black comedy, and part crime thriller, 'Drive' is a film-lover's dream." - Cole Smithey

"... Precisely paced, but with plenty of fantastic action set-pieces, Drive is too much fun. Seriously, it’s COOL." - Simon Miraudo.

"... Gosling is marvelous to watch on screen. He's charming, tough, and smart." - Chase Whale

"... A film you will want to watch over and over again." - Brad Brevet

"... Ryan Gosling's Drive is outrageous, brutal, tender and kind of brilliant." - Digital Spy Movies

"... Gosling does a Steve McQueen cooler-than-cool star turn." - Pete Hammond

"... An exploitation/modern Western mix with brilliantly over-the-top sequences and gleeful abandon in its spirit. Long may Winding Refn rule." - Simon Gallagher

"... One of the few films I could potentially call flawless." - Alex Billington

"... In a bravura performance, Gosling reveals himself as an über-cool action hero reminiscent of the Steve McQueen or the young Clint Eastwood." - Brian D. Johnson

"... Drive is a brutal, tender and outrageous genre mash-up." - Simon Reynolds

"... [Drive] manages to hit that cinematic sweet spot of critic-approved artfulness and multiplex-approved genre exhilaration." - Aaron Hillis

"... Gosling and Mulligan in particular look like they were born to be in a two shot together." - Glenn Heath Jr

"... Drive is such a thrilling, taut, visually dazzling exercise in genre filmmaking that even its more gruesome scenes left us giddy." - Melissa Anderson

"... Between the gripping performances, the stunning lighting, the perfect soundtrack and the taut script, the sound is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the brilliance that is director Nicolas Winding Refn’s newest film." - Cinema Blend

"... Tense, bloody and absolutely astounding." - John C Clark

"... Drive both is and isn’t something familiar, weaving brutally realistic violence in with lyrical beauty, switching back and forth with rapid unexpectedness." - Jandy Stone

"... A thrilling modern neo-noir at its best, it is dangerous, taut and tantalizing. DRIVE fires on all cylinders and is quite the adrenaline rush." - Courtney Howard

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Previous Threads

#1: Driving Into Theaters In 2011, With Cannes Approval
#2: Because Some Heroes Are Real

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I'm not seeing any Drive related poll on IMDB. :-\

[mooomin]

Thanks for the new post. I really like the French Trailer. I love the song Nightcall in the trailer.

In another news, Cliff Martinez's work didn't qualify for the Academy Awards original score Maybe it got overshadowed by the music? Apparently Tick of the Clock (which I thought was part of the score) was not original either.

And the IMDB poll sort of a Ryan vs Michael Fassbender poll. It's a tight race...

[Chris31]

Movie critic Richard Roeper picked Drive as his # 1 movie of this year.

Here's what he said:

1. ‘Drive’

A classic example of a film that incorporates familiar elements from a dozen other movies yet stands alone as a unique, dazzling, sometimes breathtaking work of modern film art. Ryan Gosling is the driver — a 21st century man with no name. Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn has created a moody neo-noir with echoes of everything from “To Live and Die in L.A.” to “Pulp Fiction” to “Bullitt.” Gosling owns the screen as the title character, whose cool reserve wavers only when he’s spending time with Carey Mulligan’s Irene and her young son. With brilliant supporting work from Ron Perlman and Albert Brooks as middle-aged gangsters, Bryan Cranston as the driver’s hard-luck friend, and Christina Hendricks as the wrong girl in the wrong place, “Drive” is an adrenalin shot to the senses. I love this movie and as soon as it was over, I wanted to see it again.

[mooomin]

Fantastic! I think Richard sums it up perfectly!

And I finally saw some FYC banners for Drive on Jeff Wells' site (3 months after everybody had done so ). Looks like they're only campaigning for Albert Brooks, Refn and the film. Which is understanding, these have better shots and it could be painful to campaign for lead actor and then to be left out again.

And this looks amazing:

But I am worried that most of the bonus features are going to be in French.

[heaven85]

Ooh that looks cool. ooh only in french? That wouldn't work for me either.

[mooomin]

I am afraid if the bonus materials will be in French. I have to go investigate. lol.

But they are including a bonus documentary for NWR. I am very interested in seeing that as well. I imagine that Nic would speak English. Not sure if they dub it though.

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Credit.

[heaven85]

OOh that's nice B.

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1. “Drive” - Director Nicolas Winding-Refn created a film unlike any other this year, a sort-of noir/pastiche that melds the emptiness of 1980s Los Angeles iconography with a thoroughly existential anti-hero: Driver, no real name given, played by Ryan Gosling with such cool moral detachment, it's a sight to behold. Love the supporting performances by Bryan Cranston, Ron Perlman and Albert Brooks – and the sudden, searing third-act burst of violence. An utter stylegasm, an exhilarating soon-to-be cult classic.

The best movies of 2011: 'Drive' cruises to the top of critic's list | MLive.com

[heaven85]

Hehe love that blurb

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Crime thriller Drive has topped the Austin Film Critics Association awards, winning three prizes. The movie was named Best Adapted Screenplay on Wednesday, and it also picked up Best Director for Nicolas Winding Refn and Best Supporting Actor for Albert Brooks.

24 Hours Vancouver

[mooomin]

Awesome news. Refn has been winning these smaller critics' awards. Which is very heartening to see

[heaven85]

That's awesome.

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I'm just glad it's getting rec from some places -- I wasn't expecting much of anything, honestly.





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