Based on author Bryan Burrough's ambitious tome Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43, director Michael Mann's sprawling historical crime drama follows the efforts of top FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale ) in capturing notorious bank robber John Dillinger. A folk hero to the American public thanks to his penchant for robbing the banks that many people believed responsible for the Great Depression, charming bandit Dillinger (Johnny Depp) was virtually unstoppable at the height of his criminal career; no jail could hold him, and his exploits endeared him to the common people while making headlines across the country. J. Edgar Hoover's (Billy Crudup) FBI was just coming into formation, and what better way for the ambitious lawman to transform his fledgling Bureau of Investigation into a national police force than to capture the gang that always gets away? Determined to bust Dillinger and his crew, which also included sociopathic Baby Face Nelson (Stephen Graham) and Alvin Karpis (Giovanni Ribisi), Hoover christened Dillinger the country's very first Public Enemy Number One, and unleashed Purvis to take them down by whatever means necessary. But Purvis underestimated Dillinger's ingenuity as a master criminal, and after embarking on a frantic series of chases and shoot-outs, the dashing agent humbly surmised that he was in over his head. Outwitted and outgunned, Purvis knew that his only hope for busting Dillinger's gang was to baptize a crew of Western ex-lawmen as official agents, and orchestrate a series of betrayals so cunning that even America's criminal mastermind wouldn't know what hit him. Marion Cotillard, Channing Tatum, and Stephen Dorff co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide «Hide Full Summary
Released By Universal Pictures Release: 7/1/2009 Rated: R Director: Michael Mann Starring: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard
ACTORS : Michael Madsen, Reynaldo Rosales, Julie Ann Emery, Heidi Dippold, Bill Moseley, Leslie Easterbrook DIRECTORS : Robby Henson SINOPSIS : Best-selling novelists Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti transform their supernatural novel into the terrifying film, HOUSE. The eerie tale follows Jack (Reynaldo Rosales, TV’s "Medium”) and Stephanie (Heidi Dippold, HBO’s "The Sopranos”), a young couple who become stranded on a lonely country road. Following directions from a menacing sheriff (Michael Madsen, Kill Bill, Vol. 2), they stumble upon a desolate inn run by a sinister woman (Leslie Easterbrook, Halloween) and her homicidal son (Bill Moseley, The Devil’s Rejects). Soon Jack and Stephanie, along with another stranded couple, find themselves haunted not only by horrifying glimpses of their past sins, but also a masked psychopath who demands one dead victim by sunrise, in this bone-chilling thriller MovieJungle.com calls "A suspenseful psychological roller coaster ride.
