The Caller

Running time: 95 mins

The riveting Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon, Good Night, and Good Luck) and the incomparable Elliott Gould (Ocean?s Eleven, M.A.S.H.) lead the cast in Richard Ledes? absorbing noir thriller.

When Jimmy Stevens (Langella), an executive at an international energy firm, decides to blow the whistle on his company's corrupt practices, he knows he will be killed. So he anonymously hires private detective Frank Turlotte (Gould) to stay on his tail. Turlotte reluctantly accepts the job, but unbeknownst to him, the man he was hired to investigate and the man who hired him are one and the same. As Stevens' and Turlotte's lives continue to intertwine, puzzle pieces fall together, and the secrets of the past start to explain the future.

Delivering an understated performance that subtly evokes all the complexities of his character, Langella is at his finest. Together with Gould, and along with Laura Harring, (Mulholland Drive) as an exquisite femme fatale, the trio brings a natural sophistication to Ledes' and Alain Didier-Weill's sharp, labyrinthine script.