Eastern Promises (2007) - Movie Details

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Release Date:	September 14, 2007 (Limited) September 21, 2007
On DVD:	December 23, 2007
Genre:	Suspense, Drama, Crime
Director:	David Cronenberg
Writer:	Steve Knight
Cast:	Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Sinead Cusack, Donald Sumpter, Jerzy Skolimowski
Studio:	Focus Features
Official site:	filminfocus.com/easternpromises
Running Time:	100 minutes
MPAA Rating:	Rated R for strong brutal and bloody violence, some graphic sexuality, language and nudity

The new thriller reteaming acclaimed director David Cronenberg with his A History of Violence leading man Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises is written by Steve Knight (Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of Dirty Pretty Things). As in the earlier film, director and star together explore the psyche, physicality, and fortunes of a man whose true nature may never be wholly revealed. The mysterious and charismatic Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin (Mr. Mortensen) is a driver for one of...

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Eastern Promises does have a lot to promise. Featuring top notch talent such as Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts, director David Cronenberg hot off his last award-winning [and Mortensen-starring] masterpiece A History of Violence and an unsettling plot about a woman who has accidentally become entwined with the Russian mafia, expectations for the film were high. And Eastern Promises lives up to them... for the most part.

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