The Death and Life of Bobby Z
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Directed by | |
Written by | Don Winslow (novel) (screenplay) (screenplay) |
Starring | Paul Walker Laurence Fishburne Olivia Wilde Jason Lewis Joaquim de Almeida Jason Flemyng |
Distributed by | |
Release date(s) | May 3, 2007 |
Running time | 97 min. |
Country | United States |
Language | English German |
Budget | $23,000,000 (est.) |
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The Death and Life of Bobby Z, also known as Bobby Z and Let's kill Bobby Z, is a 2007 Hollywood action film. It was written by Bob Krakower and Allen Lawrence, starring Paul Walker, Laurence Fishburne, Olivia Wilde, Joaquim de Almeida and directed by . The film received an R rating by the MPAA for violence, some drug use, language and brief nudity.
Plot
Tim Kearney is a loser. He's already in prison for the fourth time because of a criminal offence. There he's offered a deal with the DEA, which would involve his impersonating a legendary drug dealer, Bobby Z. Tim is told that the real Bobby Z has recently died of a heart attack in an embassy in Thailand, shortly after getting out of prison there. The plan that had been in operation at the time of Bobby's death was for him to be exchanged for a DEA agent that was being held by a Mexican drug cartel. The Feds explain to Tim that if he agrees to go along with this "transfer," he will be free to escape south of the border once the DEA agent is safely back on the American side.
But at the exchange DEA Agent Tad Gruzsa tries to shoot Kearney. Kearney however at this moment falls over a small stone, so the plan fails and a shooting is inflamed. Kearney like Gruzsa survives and Kearney is brought to the message of Brian Cerviers, a winegrower, who co-operates with the drug mafia. There he shall meet the boss of the drug mafia Don Huertero. By Elizabeth, who likewise lives together with Z's son Kit on the message, Kearney experiences that Don Huertero wants to let him kill.
At the same time, Gruzsa rushes also still another gang of bikers on Kearney, which has him still on their bill. Kearney flees, meets thereby however again and again on adversaries of one of the two sides. He always gets rid of these relatively easy (mostly for these deadly). After Don Huertero, in a small shooting in Elizabeth's camper, was killed, Elizabeth, Tim and Kit want to flee together with the money of Bobby Z and to develop themselves a new existence somewhere else.
Short before the departure of their boat one of the Bikers arrives at the harbour and begins to fire on Tim. This runs away and on a bridge with Tad, Bobby and some Bikers there is the final showdown. Since the Bikers don't know whether Tim or Bobby is Tim Kearney, Tim successes in a battle of words, to make the Bikers believe that Bobby Z is actually Tim Kearney and so they kill Bobby Z (because Kit calls Tim his Dad and the Bikers now that Tim Kearney doesn't have any kids). After this Tim and his new family leave the scene on the boat into the sunset.