Outside a mountain town grappling with a series of abductions and murders, Paul (Antonio Banderas), a reclusive writer, struggles to start what he hopes will be a career-saving screenplay. After a tense encounter at a diner with a drifter named Jack (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), Paul offers Jack a place to stay - and soon the edgy, demanding Jack muscles his way into Paul's work. As a storm cuts off power to the isolated cabin, the two men begin a jagged game of one-upmanship that will bring at least one tale to an end. Antonio Banderas (Desperado, Haywire, The Skin I Live In), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Match Point, Mission Impossible III, InchThe TudorsInch) and Piper Perabo (The Prestige, Looper) star in this riveting adaptation of the acclaimed French thriller, Papillon Noir.

With two strikes on his record, fresh-out-of-stir career criminal Troy Cameron (Nicolas Cage) wasn't interested in getting caught again. However, the influence of his old cronies Mad Dog (Willem Dafoe) and Diesel (Christopher Matthew Cook) pulls him back into the life-and the promise of big bucks from a mob chieftain (Paul Schrader, who wrote and directed) to pull off the kidnapping of a rival's infant child might make the cops the least of his problems. Gritty crime thriller also stars Reynaldo Gallegos, Omar J. Dorsey. 93 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack; English.