Stone (2010)

A convicted arsonist looks to manipulate a parole officer into a plan to secure his parole by placing his beautiful wife in the lawman's path.

Director:

John Curran

Writer:

Angus MacLachlan

Stars:

Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Milla Jovovich

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Robert De Niro	...	Jack Mabry
Edward Norton	...	Gerald 'Stone' Creeson
Milla Jovovich	...	Lucetta Creeson
Frances Conroy	...	Madylyn Mabry
Enver Gjokaj	...	Young Jack
Pepper Binkley	...	Young Madylyn
Sandra Love Aldridge	...	Miss Dickerson
Greg Trzaskoma	...	Guard Peters
Rachel Loiselle	...	Candace
Kylie Tarnopol	...	Young Candace
Bailey Tarnopol	...	Young Candace
Madison Tarnopol	...	Young Candace
Peter Lewis	...	Warden
Sarab Kamoo	...	Janice
Richard Murphy	...	Guard #1

Storyline

Parole officer Jack Mabry (Robert De Niro) has only a few weeks left before retirement and wishes to finish out the cases he's been assigned. One such case is that of Gerald "Stone" Creeson (Edward Norton), a convicted arsonist who is up for parole. Jack is initially reluctant to indulge Stone in the coarse banter he wishes to pursue and feels little sympathy for the prisoner's pleads for an early release. Seeing little hope in convincing Jack himself, Stone arranges for his wife Lucetta (Milla Jovovich) to seduce the officer, but motives and intentions steadily blur amidst the passions and buried secrets of the corrupted players in this deadly game of deception.

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Plot Keywords:

parole | arsonist | parole officer | deception | playground | 

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Taglines:

Some People Tell Lies. Others Live Them.

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Genres:

Drama | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong sexuality and violence, and pervasive language

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

7 October 2010 (Greece)

Also Known As:

La revelación

Filming Locations:

15 E Michigan Ave, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$22,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$75,766 (USA) (8 October 2010)

Gross:

$1,796,024 (USA) (17 December 2010)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Millennium Films, Mimran Schur Pictures, Mimran Schur Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

105 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital SDDS DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Angus MacLachlan originally wrote this as a play. It was performed once in 2003 as a staged reading.

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Quotes

Stone: They say the sound part comes first. They say, when you experience a spiritual truth, that it comes to you as a sound that goes through you, changes your vibration, gets you back in the harmony. Like God's tuning fork or something... And then, if you let that happen to you, then you get the light, you get an illumination.

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Connections

Referenced in Maltin on Movies: No Strings Attached (2011)

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Soundtracks

"Sonus Spiritus"
Written by Cato (ASCAP)
Performed by Cato
Published by Creative Soundscapes, Inc. (ASCAP)
Courtesy of Creative Soundscapes, Inc.

User Reviews

Someone dropped the ball....

De Niro , Norton and Jovovich . Quite the cast I'd say , but thats all there is to it .

The start is really interesting , both De Niro and Norton giving top notch performances . But then everything is lost as the movie looses focus and struggles to define itself . What starts of as a thriller goes nowhere trying to answer existential questions . No character is developed enough , the background stories clumsy and incomplete and thats in my opinion what killed this movie . No cohesion and a weak ending is the coup de grace .

Edward Norton is one of my favorite actors , so is De Niro . Im so disappointed that this didn't work out .