Samuel L. Jackson gives one of the most moving and surprising performan
ces of his distinguished career in THE SAMARITAN, a crime saga about an ex-con trying desperately to get his life back together. The modern-day noir thriller comes to high-definition Blu-ray and DVD from IFC Films September 25, 2012, with SRPs, respectively, of $29.98 and $24.98.
After twenty-five years in prison for killing his partner in crime, mournful con man Foley (Samuel L. Jackson, The Aveng
ers, Pulp Fiction, Snakes on a Plane) is finished with the grifter’s life. When he meets a beautiful yet damaged and mysterious young woman named Iris (Ruth Negga, Steve McQueen’s upcoming Twelve Years a Slave), the possibility of a new start looks real. But his past is proving to be a stubborn companion: Ethan (Luke Kirby, Take This Waltz, Tell Me You Love Me), the headstrong son of Foley’s former partner, has come up with an ingenious plan for a score involving his mobster boss and he wants Foley in on it.
Can Foley trust this bitter young man who may have scores to settle? And what is the dark secret that the enigmatic Iris carries with her?
The harder Foley tries to escape his past, the tighter he is ensnared in Ethan’s web of deception, until it becomes all too clear to Foley that some wrongs can never be made right and that maybe the ultimate con man is being conned. THE SAMARITAN shows how redemption often comes at a dangerously high price.
The Hollywood Reporter’s Michael Rechtshaffen called the movie “a gritty serving of pulp fiction masterfully perpetrated by Samuel L. Jackson.”
Directed by David Weaver and written by Weaver and Elan Mastai (Alone in the Dark), THE SAMARITAN, an IFC Films theatrical release, features a topflight cast including Tom Wilkinson (The Lone Ranger, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Deborah Kara Unger (88 Minutes, Silent Hill, The Game) and Gil Bellows (The Shawshank Redemption).
