Bovie Movie

Porter (Mel Gibson) is pulled into a heist by his old friend, Val (Brian De Palma regular, Gregg Henry). As they’re stealing $130,000 in laundered drug money from Chinese Triads, no one is going to call the police. Everything goes smoothly until Porter’s wife, Lynn (Deborah Kara Unger), shoots Porter in the back. After Val had shown Lynn a photo of Porter in the arms of another girl (Maria Bello), the two planned the double-cross together to pay off Val’s mob debts so he could return to “The Syndicate.” They didn’t plan well enough, though, because five months later Porter’s back, a complete sociopath who wants his $70,000. Brian Helgeland, the screenwriter for L.A. Confidential and Conspiracy Theory, makes his directing debut with this adaptation of the novel The Hunter by Donald E. Westlake writing under the pseudonym, Richard Stark. The same novel served as the basis for John Boorman’s Point Blank starring Lee Marvin.

When a large-scale prison riot erupts and the man responsible for the chaos kidnaps the wife and daughter of a violent offender, the hardened inmate realizes that in order to save his family he have to form an unbreakable alliance with a fellow prisoner. The most feared prisoners in the cellblock have taken over the institution, and the man pulling the strings has kidnapped the only people who ever mattered to Burk (Goldberg). Now, in order to ensure that no harm comes to his family, Burk will join forces with fellow prisoner Twitch (Kurupt) to stage a daring escape and knock down anyone or anything that stands in their way.