The Place Beyond the Pines

IMDb

7.3/10

Rated

R

The Place Beyond the Pines is a 2012 crime drama directed by Derek Cianfrance and set in Schenectady, New York. Ryan Gosling plays Luke Glanton, a carnival motorcycle stuntman who learns that his former lover Romina, played by Eva Mendes, has had his baby. Determined to provide for them, he starts robbing banks, which puts him on a collision course with Avery Cross, an ambitious rookie police officer played by Bradley Cooper. The story then follows how one encounter shapes the lives of both men's sons fifteen years later.

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