One mistake triggers a chain reaction of violence.
The black comedy action thriller "Bear Trap" (Bear Country) starring Russell Crowe ("Gladiator", "A Beautiful Mind", "3:10 to Yuma", "Les Misérables", "The Vatican Exorcist", "Nuremberg") is hitting theaters.
Viewers are promised a tense story about how a single mistake turned the retirement of a crime boss into a bloody survival game.
At the center of the plot of "Bear Trap", also known as "Night Business", is a man named Manco Capak (Crowe), a nightclub boss who is ready to sell his semi-criminal business and disappear with his girlfriend. But his plans are shattered by an armed robbery of the club carried out by masked unknowns. Enraged, Manco unleashes his security team on a newcomer to the city – a guy whom Capak believes is foolish enough to attempt such audacity. But the old gangster misjudges the suspect, and this mistake triggers a chain reaction of violence involving corrupt cops, a drug cartel, and many other criminal figures who decide that now is just the perfect time to take everything Manco Capak has...
"Bear Trap" is the second collaboration between Russell Crowe and director Derrick Borte after the thriller "Unhinged" (2020), in which Crowe played a crazed maniac pursuing a woman who accidentally "cut him off" on the road.
Borte not only directed "Bear Trap", but also co-wrote the film's script with Daniel Forte ("American Dreamer"), based on the 2010 novel by Thomas Perry "Strip".
"After the wonderful experience we shared while working on 'Unhinged', I was looking for a new project that I could do with Russell," Borte says. "I wanted it to be a film that would allow Russell to showcase more of what many people (including me) loved about his Jackson Healy in 'The Nice Guys' – a crime comedy where he and Ryan Gosling displayed both their comedic talents and action abilities. So when the script for 'Bear Trap' was ready, Russell and I both immediately realized that this was the project."
