(PCM) The soulful vocals of Lee Moses’s rough and powerful “Bad Girl” sets the tone in the international trailer for Blood Ties, a crime drama about two brothers and their involvement in organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970′s.
It’s New York and the year is 1974. Fifty-year-old Chris (Clive Owen) has just been released on good behavior after several years in prison following a gangland murder. Reluctantly waiting for him outside the gates is his younger brother, Frank (Billy Crudup), a cop with a bright future.
Chris and Frank have always been different, and their father, Leon (James Caan), who raised them alone, seems to favor Chris despite all his troubles. Yet blood ties are the ones that bind, and 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 (Marion Cotillard).
But Chris’ inevitable descent back into a life of crime proves to be the last in a long line of betrayals, and after his brother’s latest transgressions, Frank banishes him from his life. But, as fate would have it, the two brothers’ destinies are bound together, forever.
Blood Ties stars Clive Owen (Children of Men), Billy Crudup (Big Fish), Zoe Saldana (Avatar), Mila Kunis (Black Swan), Marion Cotillard (The Dark Knight Rises), Lili Taylor (The Conjuring), James Caan (Misery), and Matthais Schoenaerts (Rust and Bone).
The film was written and directed by french actor Guillaume Canet, known for his films Little White Lies and Tell No One.
Blood Ties opens in the U.S. on a limited run starting March 21st. Watch a trailer for the film below and check out the official website here.
Blood Ties has a run time of 2 hours and 24 minutes and is rated R for violence, pervasive language, some sexual content and brief drug use.
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