Stealing Cars

Stealing Cars is a 2015 American crime drama film directed by Bradley J. Kaplan, written by Will Aldis and Steve Mackall, and starring Emory Cohen, Mike Epps, Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy, and John Leguizamo.[1] It was premiered at Los Angeles Film Festival on June 13, 2015.

Stealing Cars
Film poster
Directed byBradley J. Kaplan
Produced byRachel Winter
Dan Keston
Joe Newcomb
Written byWill Aldis
Steve Mackall
StarringEmory Cohen
Mike Epps
Paul Sparks
Felicity Huffman
William H. Macy
Al Calderon
Heather Lind
John Leguizamo
Music byPhil Mossman
CinematographyMartin Ahlgren
Edited byJarrett Fijal
Sabine Hoffmann
Adam Zuckerman
Production
company
Leverage Management
Release date
  • June 13, 2015 (2015-06-13) (LA Film Festival)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

After committing a number of crimes, including vehicular theft, Billy Wyatt is placed in a juvenile detention camp. He quickly befriends Nathan Stein, a sickly inmate, and due to his charisma and intelligence, earns the respect of several other inmates, including the feared Carlos and the hulking Jerome Timmons 'J.T.' Dye. However, his indifference and disrespect to those trying to rehabilitate him puts Billy into conflict with camp's director, Montgomery De La Cruz, and the abusive head guard, Conrad Sean Lewis. He also bonds with Tina Simms, a recovering drug addict who serves as the camp's nurse, and Emmit Till, the local sheriff, who appears to genuinely want to help him.

Billy goes on to organize the camp's community construction project for the year, a drive-in movie theater. Following the completion of the theater, he is approached by Montgomery about being moved from manual labor to taking care of the director's personal belongings, including a prized automobile. To convince Billy to work for him, he brings up the death of Billy's father Philip in a vehicular accident, which Billy blames himself for. Montgomery discloses that he too lost his father under tragic circumstances. Seeing Billy in his new position causes most of the inmates to turn against him and Nathan is beaten and tied to a basketball post.

Upon learning that Montgomery lied about his father's death, Billy beats him and accompanied by Nurse Simms, steals his car in an effort to transport Nathan to a hospital. Montgomery attempts to stop him from leaving, but Billy receives support from his fellow inmates and Conrad and Sheriff Till refuse to prevent his escape. Upon dropping Nathan and Nurse Simms off at the hospital, he drives back to his home where makes amends with his mother Kimberly before the police recapture him.

Cast

Release

The film was premiered at Los Angeles Film Festival on June 13, 2015.[2][3]

gollark: > resisting gives the cops no right to kill an otherwise unarmed person<@528315825803755559> I agree. I'd really expect higher standards of not arbitrarily killing people. The UK seems to have this problem... less, at least?
gollark: Then you are not an idiot. You win a melon! 🍈
gollark: Anyone who disagrees with me is always an idiot.
gollark: It seems kind of hypocritical of you to simultaneously go "destroy the existing regime violently" and "we need a new form of government which will deal with this sort of thing very harshly and not really allow change".
gollark: Isn't a violent protest or whatever the sort of thing the authoritarian regimes you like try to stop/deal with very harshly?

References
  1. "Emory Cohen, Mike Epps, Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy Set For 'Stealing Cars'". deadline.com. November 19, 2013. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
  2. "Video: Emory Cohen earns praise at Stealing Cars premiere". belfasttelegraph.co.uk. June 15, 2015. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
  3. Farber, Stephen (June 17, 2015). "'Stealing Cars': LAFF Review". hollywoodreporter.com. Retrieved July 12, 2015.


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