The streaming app added a film based on real events where an older man faces extreme and unexpected decisions in the criminal world.
In recent years, Netflix found in the stories based on real events he success insured. From crimes that headed the headlines to biographies on great referents of the show or sport, the streaming platform knew how to understand that the public is curious and seeks to understand how the impossible could happen TRUE.
In that map it appears “The mule”a film directed and starring Clint Eastwoodwhich recovers a surprising episode: Leo Sharpa war veteran who, without raising suspicions and his 80 years, became one of the Drug carriers more unusual in the United States.
His case surprised the world not only for the elderly of the one involved, but also by the Quiet life that led, completely oblivious to violence and risk associated with Criminal world. Thus, far from sensationalism, the film shows the calm, silences and loneliness of a man who, without being a hero or villain, continued wrong decisions When I did not expect to take any.
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“La Mula” trailer
What is “the mule”?
Follow the story of Earl Stonean older man, veteran of the Korean War, who crosses the loneliness and different family problems while trying to keep your life afloat after years of work and dedication. With his decline business and the relationship with his deteriorated daughter, he accepts a job that seems simple: transport packages along the route.
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However, this is rapidly transformed into a high -risk task, since these shipments are related to a Drug poster. But, the film focuses more on the life of the protagonist than on the crime itself. Earl is not a typical criminal, but he is a common man, whose economic need they push him to extreme decisions.
At the same time, the investigation of the authorities is followed, who try to unravel the identity of this mysterious nickname “The mule”. Thus, the tension is built with the contrast between the daily routine of Stone and the Criminal Network That uses it.
Distribution of “La Mula”
- Clint Eastwood as Earl Stone.
- Bradley Cooper as agent Colin Bates.
- Laurence Fishburne as the special agent of the DEA.
- Michael Peña as agent Treviño.
- Dianne Wiest as Mary.
- Andy Garcia as Laton.
- Alison Eastwood as Iris.
- Taissa Farmiga as Ginny.
- Ignacio Serricchio as Julio.
- Loren Dean as Agent Brown.
- Victor Rasuk as rich.
- Manny Montana as Axl.
- Clifton Collins Jr. as Gustavo.
- Noel Gugliei as Bald Rob.
- Robert Lasardo as Emilio.
Source: Ambito
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