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Parker
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Parker is a 2013 American heist, thriller, and action film directed and produced by Taylor Hackford. The movie, based on a work by Donald E. Westlake, features a cast including Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Chiklis, and Nick Nolte. J. Michael Muro served as the director of photography, while David Buckley composed the score and Mark Warner edited the film. The narrative is set in Florida, where filming also took place alongside New Orleans.
The 118-minute English-language film was distributed by FilmDistrict and Netflix in video on demand format. It carries an R rating and has a tagline reading, "To get away clean, you have to play dirty." Production companies involved include Incentive Filmed Entertainment, Sierra/Affinity, Alexander/Mitchell Productions, Current Entertainment, and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment.
Critical reception varied, with the film receiving a 6.2 rating from 136,174 votes on IMDb and a 42 Metascore. It also received a 42% score on Rotten Tomatoes and a 4.8/10 rating from another source. The film had a budget of 35,000,000 and generated 46,216,641 in revenue.
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6.1A thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely alliance with a woman on the inside, he looks to hijack the score of the crew's latest heist.
Cast
- Jason Statham as Parker
- Jennifer Lopez as Leslie Rodgers
- Michael Chiklis as Melander
- Wendell Pierce as Carlson
- Clifton Collins Jr. as Ross
- Bobby Cannavale as Jake Fernandez
Themes
- based on novel or book
- real estate agent
- professional thief
- jewel robbery
- palm beach, florida
- parker
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Ratings
IMDb
6.2/10
135,367 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
42%
Metacritic
42/100
- Year
- 2013
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 1 nomination total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Taylor Hackford
- Written by
- John J. McLaughlin
- Based on
- Flashfire , by Donald E. Westlake
- Produced by
- Les Alexander Steven Chasman Taylor Hackford Sidney Kimmel Jonathan Mitchell
- Starring
- Jason Statham Jennifer Lopez Michael Chiklis Bobby Cannavale Nick Nolte
- Cinematography
- J. Michael Muro
- Edited by
- Mark Warner
- Music by
- David Buckley
- Production companies
- Incentive Filmed Entertainment Sierra Pictures Alexander/Mitchell Current Entertainment Sidney Kimmel Entertainment Anvil Films
- Distributed by
- FilmDistrict
- Release dates
- January 24, 2013 ( 2013-01-24 ) ( Las Vegas ) January 25, 2013 ( 2013-01-25 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 118 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $31–35 million
- Box office
- $46.2 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Parker is a 2013 American action thriller film directed by Taylor Hackford and written by John J. McLaughlin. Starring Jason Statham and Jennifer Lopez, the film is adapted from Flashfire, the 19th Parker novel written by Donald Westlake under the pen name Richard Stark. Primarily set in Palm Beach, Florida, Parker marked a departure for Hackford, who hoped to make it his first film noir. The film, produced on a $35 million budget, was conceived following Westlake's 2008 death, when producer Les Alexander secured the rights to it.
The film was premiered in Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 24, 2013, and was released in the United States on January 25, 2013, where it generally received mixed reviews, with many critics feeling the film was a poor adaptation of the book and typical of Statham's sub-par action films of the past few years. Many found Statham well-fitted for the role of Parker and praised Lopez for providing comedic relief. It grossed $46 million worldwide at the box office.
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