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Destroyer(2018)
Annapurna Pictures Dec 25, 2018 | Limited
A police detective reconnects with people from an undercover assignment in her distant past in order to make peace.
Releases
Original Release | Dec 25, 2018
Box Office
Results
$55,347
$1,533,324
$4,047,616
$5,672,443
Director & Top Cast
Technical Specifications
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Other Details
Country of Origin: United States
Summaries
Plot Summary
- LAPD detective Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman) arrives on the scene of a John Doe murder and informs the responding officers that she knows the identity of the murderer. At her police station, Erin receives a $100 bill stained from a dye pack in an unmarked envelope. Using a contact at the FBI, she confirms that the bill is from a bank robbery committed by a California gang many years prior that she and her former partner Chris (Sebastian Stan) were embedded in as undercover officers. She tells her superiors that she believes the bill and the John Doe murder to be proof that the gang's leader Silas (Toby Kebbell) is once again active.Erin is forced to work her way through the remaining members of the gang in order to find Silas. She begins with Toby (James Jordan), who was arrested but is now gravely ill and living with his mother on compassionate release. She manually stimulates him in exchange for the location of Arturo (Zach Villa), a member of the gang who attempts to atone for his past crimes by offering pro Bono legal services to immigrants. Arturo provides Erin with the location of Dennis DiFranco (Bradley Whitford), a lawyer who launders the money from the original robbery and from whom Erin deduces that Silas is active again because the money from the heist is almost gone. After threatening him (DiFranco's goon attacks Erin, but she fights back and forces DiFranco down), DiFranco gives Erin the location of the next money hand-off, which is performed by Silas' girlfriend Petra (Tatiana Maslany). Erin tracks Petra, eventually intervening in a bank robbery committed by Silas' new gang, and kidnaps Petra.Via flashbacks throughout the film, it transpires that Erin and Chris developed a romantic relationship while undercover, with Erin eventually becoming pregnant with Chris' child. At Erin's behest, they decided to become legitimate participants in the bank robbery and planned to take their shares of the heist, report to their superiors that they lost contact with the gang, and eventually quit the force. The robbery was botched when a dye pack exploded in one of the bags, and Silas killed the bank teller who placed it. When Chris attempted to intervene, he was shot and killed by Silas. Erin hid her share of the heist and returned to policing, disclosing neither her original plan nor her share of the heist.In the background is the story of Shelby Bell (Jade Pettyjohn), daughter of Chris and Erin and lives with Erin's brother Ethan (Scoot McNairy). Shelby hates Erin and has turned rebellious by having a sexual relationship with a nobody called Jay (Beau Knapp). Erin tries everything to turn Shelby away from Jay, but eventually has to buy him off. Erin tries to make amends with Shelby, but Shelby recounts her childhood and says that Erin never made an attempt to connect with her.In the present, Erin visits a self-storage unit to retrieve her share of the stolen money but finds that the majority of it is stained with dye. She receives a text message from Silas instructing her to meet him at the Sixth Street Viaduct, where she confronts and shoots him, avenging Chris. She returns the next morning to find the police investigating the crime scene: the John Doe murder investigation depicted in the first scene of the film. With Silas dead, Erin gives evidence of her guilt - Petra's location, the stained bill, and the key to her storage unit to her partner Antonio (Shamier Anderson). It's revealed that Erin has been bleeding internally from the injuries she sustained through her investigation, and she dies while sitting in her car.
Storyline
- Destroyer follows the moral and existential odyssey of LAPD detective Erin Bell who, as a young cop, was placed undercover with a gang in the California desert with tragic results. When the leader of that gang re-emerges many years later, she must work her way back through the remaining members and into her own history with them to finally reckon with the demons that destroyed her past. — Annapurna Pictures The plot is devoted to the history of Los Angeles detective Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman), in her youth working undercover in one of the Californian criminal gangs. Then the mission of the heroine ended in failure, and after many years the leader of the underground organization reappears on the horizon and finds Bell (now a seasoned and ruthless woman), forcing her to return to the old cause. — Peter-Patrick76 (peter-patrick@mail.com) Trapped in a self-destructive world of regret, obsession, and booze, the guilt-ridden LAPD Detective, Erin Bell, stumbles upon an unexpected clue from her painful past. As a result, seventeen long years after a botched undercover operation to capture the violent gang leader, Silas, once more, Erin finds herself on the warpath, hell-bent on settling an old score by reopening the long-forgotten case. Now, the ghosts of the past demand retribution, as Silas seems to have picked up where he left off. However, does Erin deserve redemption? — Nick Riganas Erin Bell (Kidman) is an LAPD detective who, as a young cop, was placed undercover with a gang in the California desert with tragic results. When the leader (Kebbell) of that gang re-emerges many years later, she must work her way back through the remaining members and into her own history with them to finally reckon with the demons that destroyed her past.
