Peppermint (2018)

Five years after her husband and daughter are killed in a senseless act of violence, a woman comes back from self-imposed exile to seek revenge against those responsible and the system that let them go free.

Director:

Pierre Morel

Writer:

Chad St. John

Stars:

Jennifer Garner, John Gallagher Jr., John Ortiz

4 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jennifer Garner	...	Riley North
John Gallagher Jr.	...	Detective Stan Carmichael
John Ortiz	...	Detective Moises Beltran
Juan Pablo Raba	...	Diego Garcia
Annie Ilonzeh	...	FBI Agent Lisa Inman
Jeff Hephner	...	Chris North
Cailey Fleming	...	Carly North
Eddie Shin	...	FBI Agent Li
Method Man	...	Narcotics Detective Barker (as Cliff 'Method Man' Smith)
Tyson Ritter	...	Homeless Sam
Ian Casselberry	...	Cortez
Richard Cabral	...	Salazar
Johnny Ortiz	...	Torres
Michael Reventar	...	Ortega
Kyla-Drew	...	Maria (as Kyla-Drew Simmons)

Storyline

An unidentified woman is engaged in a brutal fight with a man in a car and finally dispatches him with a shot to the head. Five years earlier, the same woman, Riley North, is working as a bank teller in Los Angeles struggling to make ends meet. Her husband Chris owns a failing mechanic shop. They have a ten-year-old daughter, Carly. Chris' friend tries to talk him into robbing Diego Garcia, a powerful drug lord. Chris turns him down, but not before Garcia has already discovered his involvement and ordered his men to make an example of him. Riley and Chris take Carly out for pizza and to a carnival for her birthday since no one showed up to her party. At the carnival, Carly orders peppermint ice cream. As the family walks to the car, Diego's men gun down her husband and daughter in a drive-by shooting. She is wounded, but survives.

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Plot Keywords:

revenge | loss of husband | female protagonist | corruption | woman beats up a man | 

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Taglines:

The system failed. She won't.

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Genres:

Action | Drama | Thriller

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Certificate:

14A

Did You Know?

Trivia

The movie's premise closely resembles the one from Blue Tiger (1994). Since that was a fairly unknown action movie going straight-to-video in most territories, most comments refer to this as a gender-swapped version of Death Wish (1974) or Law Abiding Citizen (2009).

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Goofs

When the black pickup is coming up the driveway at Diego's house, it is moving very slowly. At this time, the driver is dead but the pickup accelerates and crashes into the house.

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Quotes

Riley North: Hi.
[pushes gun barrel into his nose]
Marvin: Oh, God.
Riley North: I have questions for you. You're not busy, are you?

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Connections

Featured in Late Night with Seth Meyers: Jennifer Garner/Stephanie Ruhle/Bebe Rexha/Allison Miller/Pearl Aday (2018)

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Soundtracks

El Escape (The Escape)
Written by David Perez and Andres De La Fuente
Performed by David Rolas
Courtesy of Lakeshore Records

User Reviews

For people who love Taken, Death Wish and John Wick. Quality film!!!

What a great actioner, if you loved his other movie LONDON HAS FALLEN which i did then you won't be disappointed with this one.

If you look forward to a brutal revenge flicks like DEATH WISH or TAKEN then this is right up your street. A good pace and impressive action choreography.

Forget the overly negative criticism from the parasite critics that have an agenda with this film, its totally unfair what they are saying about this film, just remember that they did exactly the same with TAKEN and look how that turned out. The public are voicing their approval of this one aswel.

Details

Official Sites:

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Country:

Hong Kong USA

Language:

English Spanish

Release Date:

7 September 2018 (Canada)

Also Known As:

Déchaînée

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$25,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$13,423,255, 9 September 2018

Gross USA:

$35,418,723

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$53,918,723

Company Credits

Production Co:

STX Films, Lakeshore Entertainment, Huayi Brothers Media

Technical Specs

Runtime:

101 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Surround 7.1

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.39 : 1