Blood Ties
Blood Ties
2/27/15, 1h 40 mins
Director
Guillaume Canet
Screenwriters
Guillaume Canet & James Gray
Cast
Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Marion Cotilliard, Mila Kunis, Zoe Saldana, Mathaias Schoenaerts, Noah Emmerich, Lili Taylor, Domenick Lombardozzi, John Ventimigilia, Griffin Dunne, Jamie Hector, Yul Vazquez and James Caan
Producers
Alain Attal, Guillaume Canet, Hugo Selignac, Christopher Woodrow, John Lesher
Executive Producers
Kerry Orent, Christopher Goode, James Gray, Vincent Maraval, Molly Conners, Sarah Johnson Redlich, Maria Cestone, Hoyt David Morgan
Synopsis
New York, 1974. Fifty-year-old Chris has just been released on good behavior after several years in prison following a gangland murder. Waiting for him reluctantly outside the prison gates is his younger brother, Frank, a cop with a bright future. Chris and Frank have always been different, and their father, Leon, who has raised them alone, seems strangely to prefer Chris – this, despite all his troubles.
Yet blood ties are the ones that bind. Frank, hoping that his brother has changed, is willing to give him a chance; he shares his home, finds him a job, and helps him reconnect with his children and his ex-wife, Monica. But Chris’ past quickly catches up to him, and his descent back into a life of crime becomes inevitable. For Frank, this descent proves to be the last in a long line of betrayals, and after his brother’s latest transgressions, he banishes him from his life. But it’s already too late; the brothers’ destiny will be bounded, forever.