Keanu Dvd

Keanu is a 2016 American buddy action comedy film directed by Peter Atencio and written by Jordan Peele and Alex Rubens. The film stars Peele and Keegan-Michael Key in their first film as lead actors, following five seasons of their sketch TV series. Also featuring Tiffany Haddish, Method Man, Nia Long and Will Forte, the plot follows two friends who infiltrate a gang in order to retrieve their stolen kitten.

Filming began in New Orleans, Louisiana in June 2015. The film premiered at the South by Southwest Festival on March 13, 2016, and was theatrically released in North America on April 29, 2016. It received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $20 million against its $15 million budget.

Plot

Smoke and Oil Dresden, a pair of assassins known as the “Allentown Brothers”, enter a drug-processing facility run by a Mexican drug cartel and kill everyone inside, including the boss King Diaz. The pair take Diaz’s cat Iglesias, but when they are momentarily distracted by policemen arriving, the cat escapes. Meanwhile, Rell has just been dumped by his girlfriend; he finds the cat on his doorstep, takes an immediate liking to it, and names it Keanu. Rell’s cousin Clarence comes over to cheer him up and meets Keanu as well.

Two weeks later, Clarence’s wife and daughter go out of town with the husband and daughter of a family friend, leaving Clarence alone. Rell, who is much happier after taking care of Keanu, takes Clarence out to see a Liam Neeson movie, telling him he needs to loosen up and just be himself. When the two return to Rell’s house, they find the place has been ransacked and Keanu is missing.

A distraught Rell drags Clarence along to the next-door residence of his weed dealer Hulka, who reluctantly reveals that the 17th St. Blips, a local gang, may have raided Rell’s house instead of his. Hulka directs them to a downtown strip club; Rell and Clarence go there, where Rell convinces Clarence to adopt a “gangsta” persona in order to infiltrate the gang, calling themselves “Tectonic” and “Shark Tank”.

The two meet Hi-C, a female gangster, who initially is skeptical of them but takes them to meet the gang’s leader Cheddar, who mistakes them for the Allentown Boys. Cheddar has Keanu (having renamed him New Jack and fitted him with a do-rag), and they ask for the cat. He will only return the cat to them if they come along as expert advisors for the Blips on a run to sell a new drug called “Holy Shit”; both reluctantly agree.

After taking their team through a team-building exercise, Rell, Clarence, Hi-C, and three other gang members drive to their delivery spot. While Clarence stays behind and introduces the young men to the music of George Michael (whom he says is black, to overcome their skepticism), Rell and Hi-C go to make the sale. The buyer turns out to be Anna Faris, who is partying with two friends. Faris invites them to play Truth or Dare, and dares Hi-C to shoot Rell.

When Hi-C refuses, a fight ensues in which Faris and her two guests are both shot by Hi-C, frightening Rell. At the strip club after the run, Clarence accidentally smokes some Holy Shit, and experiences a drug trip in which he appears in the music video for “Faith” by George Michael, and Keanu speaks to him in the voice of Keanu Reeves. Rell begins to worry about his cousin and convinces him to just take Keanu and leave. The two do so, but are abducted on their way to their car by the actual Allentown Boys.

Rell and Clarence are tied to chairs and as the Allentown Boys prepare to torture them, Keanu claws through Rell’s ropes, allowing him to free himself and Clarence, and they grab the Allentown Boys’ guns. The Allentown boys continue to approach them, but Clarence and Rell completely unload the guns into them, seemingly killing them. On their way out of the building searching for Keanu, Rell and Clarence run into the Blips; Cheddar has discovered their real identities when they refuse to shoot a kidnapped Hulka, and forces them to come along to a meeting with the Mexican drug cartel at its mansion in the morning.

At the meeting, the Blips meet with King Diaz’s cousin, Bacon Diaz, offering Clarence and Rell as the supposed Allentown Boys, but when Bacon also demands “Iglesias”, Cheddar refuses and a gunfight erupts between the two gangs. Clarence and Rell realize that the team-building exercise the two took the gang through has improved their communication; they pick up guns and shoot their way out of the mansion in pursuit of Bacon, who has taken Keanu, only for Rell to be shot in the leg and Clarence shot in the hand.

Rell, who never learned to drive, hijacks Bacon’s escape car with Bacon and Keanu in the back; Clarence gives chase in a car that belongs to Bacon’s son. The chase ends at Clarence’s house where Rell crashes into the front yard, sending Bacon flying through the broken windshield. Bacon gets up and attempts to shoot Rell, but Clarence runs him over. Bacon gets up again, but is shot and finally killed by Cheddar and the Blips.

The Blips threaten Rell and Clarence, but Hi-C – secretly a police officer – breaks her cover and forces the Blips to drop their guns. When Cheddar attempts to shoot her, she kills him. The police arrive, and Hi-C reveals that Faris and her party guests were in on the whole operation and are all still alive, but Rell and Clarence will still have to go to jail for the activities they’ve taken part in, including the killing of the Allentown Boys. She promises to testify for leniency and agrees to go on a date with Rell after they get out of jail.

Six months later, Rell and Clarence have only three weeks left on their jail sentences, but have commanded respect among the inmates – including the remaining Blips – for killing the Allentown Boys. Hi-C, who has been taking care of Keanu, speaks with Rell through a visitation phone, where she reveals that she’s just been to the veterinarian and discovered that Keanu has a rare disease: he will remain a kitten permanently.

In a post-credits scene, the Allentown Boys are revealed to have survived the shooting and get back into their car.

Cast

Keegan-Michael Key as Clarence ‘Shark Tank’ and Smoke Dresden
Jordan Peele as Rell ‘Techtonic’ and Oil Dresden
Tiffany Haddish as Trina “Hi-C” Parker
Method Man as Cheddar
Jason Mitchell as Bud
Luis Guzmán as Bacon Diaz
Nia Long as Hannah
Will Forte as Hulka
Darrell Britt-Gibson as Trunk
Jamar Malachi Neighbors as Stitches
Rob Huebel as Spencer
Ian Casselberry as King Diaz
Keanu Reeves as Keanu (voice)
Anna Faris as Herself (uncredited)