A cabal of corrupt officials-including a police officer, a district attorney, a defense attorney, and a judge-helps to free the suspects. Riley survives the attack she identifies the killers in a lineup, but to no avail. Afterward, while the North family is on a holiday-season outing, gang members murder Chris and Carly. A friend lures Chris into a scheme to rob drug dealers Chris backs out, but he’s nonetheless implicated. They live in a modest house she and their daughter, Carly (Cailey Fleming), endure the contempt of the school’s rich kids and their parents (one in particular, played by Pell James, is especially cruel).
Jennifer Garner plays Riley North, an employee in a Los Angeles bank whose husband, Chris (Jeff Hephner), runs an auto-repair shop.
Its subject is a long-familiar bugbear of respectability and decency, the drug trade, which it looks at with a despicably ignorant and contemptuous perspective. It’s a new version of an old genre, the vigilante tale, but with a special whiff of prejudice, hatred, and resentment that-for all the film’s absurd artifice-blend all too readily into the distorted mental landscape of current American life.
#PEPPERMINT CAST MOVIE#
John), which opens today, leaves a trace of slime that’s hard to wipe up-and leaves the feeling that it would be better for the world at large if this movie hadn’t been made. Mediocre movies often appear and then disappear, as though they’d never been, but “Peppermint” (directed by Pierre Morel and written by Chad St.
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