CHARLIE COUNTRYMAN (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Shia LaBeouf (Transformers), Evan Rachel Wood (Thirteen), Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale), Rupert Grint (Harry Potter), Til Schweiger (Inglourious Basterds), Melissa Leo (The Fighter), Vanessa Kirby (About Time), James Buckley (The Inbetweeners), Montserrat Lombard (Ashes to Ashes), Aubrey Plaza (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World), Lachlan Nieboer (Downton Abbey), Adrian Pavlovschi (Last Gasp), Cosmin Padureanu (Poker)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Fredrik Bond (film debut), director; Matt Drake (Project X), writer; Albert Berger (Little Miss Sunshine), Craig J. Flores (300), William Horberg (The Quiet American) and Ron Yerxa (Cold Mountain), producers; Christophe Beck (Frozen) and DeadMono (film debut), composers; Roman Vasyanov (Fury), cinematographer; Hughes Winborne (Crash), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Charlie Countryman (LaBeouf), a young American man vising Romania, falls in love with beautiful cellist Gabi (Wood) but soon crosses paths with her violent, psychopathic mobster ex-husband Nigel (Mikkelsen), who will stop at nothing to see that Charlie doesn’t live to see another day…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Leading actor Shia LaBeouf may currently be in the headlines for the wrong reasons (just don’t take him to any musicals in the near future…) but his central performance in Charlie Countryman should serve as a reminder as to why he became so popular in the first place.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 31ST OCTOBER 2014

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