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The Counselor Dvd

Just a few days before his marriage, a lawyer, Counselor, gets entangled in a drug plot involving a middle-man, Westray.

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The Counselor is a 2013 crime thriller film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Cormac McCarthy. It stars Michael Fassbender as the eponymous Counselor as well as Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt. The film deals with primal human concerns like greed, mortality, love, and trust related to the theme of corruption and profit in a high-stakes criminal environment. Out of greed, the Counselor, a high-level lawyer, gets irrevocably in over his head in a drug deal around the troubled Ciudad Juarez, Mexico/Texas border area.

The Counselor was chosen as the closing film at the 2013 Morelia Film Festival and also played the Cork Film Festival. The film was theatrically released on October 25, 2013 and is dedicated to Scott’s brother, Tony, who died in 2012. It received mixed reviews and grossed $71 million worldwide against a budget of $25 million.

Plot

A high-level cartel lawyer with dirty hands who is known only as “The Counselor” and his girlfriend Laura are talking in bed. Meanwhile, somewhere in Mexico, cocaine is packaged in barrels and concealed in a sewage truck, driven across the border and stored at a sewage treatment plant. After the Counselor goes to Amsterdam to meet with a diamond dealer to purchase an engagement ring for Laura, he proposes and she accepts. At a party back in Texas thrown by Reiner and girlfriend Malkina, a former call-girl with a greedy lust for money, the Counselor discusses a nightclub he and Reiner intend to run, as well as an upcoming drug deal, which would be his first. Reiner also describes an execution device called “the bolito” which gradually strangles and decapitates the victim.

The Counselor meets with Westray (Brad Pitt), a business associate of Reiner’s. He hears of the deal’s 4000-percent return rate, but Westray warns the Counselor about becoming involved, saying that Mexican cartels are merciless. The Counselor remains outwardly confident and unconcerned. Malkina gains knowledge of the deal through her access to Reiner and by conveniently overhearing various intercoms in Reiner’s home.

Cast

Michael Fassbender as The Counselor
Cameron Diaz as Malkina
Javier Bardem as Reiner
Penélope Cruz as Laura
Brad Pitt as Westray
Rosie Perez as Ruth
Natalie Dormer as the Blonde
Édgar Ramírez as the Priest
Bruno Ganz as the Diamond Dealer
Rubén Blades as ‘Jefe’
Goran Višnjić as Michael
Velibor Topić as Sedan Man
Toby Kebbell as Tony
Emma Rigby as Tony’s girlfriend
John Leguizamo as Randy
Dean Norris as the Buyer
Richard Cabral as ‘The Green Hornet’, Biker who Ruth’s son.
Sam Spruell as Wireman
Alex Hafner as Second Patrolman
Andrea Deck as Watching Girl

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