The Place Beyond the Pines
A motorcycle stunt rider turns to robbing banks to provide for his infant son, setting two families on a collision course.
Selected for its ambition of structure — a crime story that widens into a study of what fathers pass on.
In Schenectady, New York, travelling stunt rider Luke learns he has a son and resolves to support him by any means available. His choices cross the path of Avery, an ambitious young police officer, and the encounter echoes across the next fifteen years. Derek Cianfrance builds the film as a triptych about fathers, sons and the inheritance of guilt.
- Derek Cianfrance
- Ryan GoslingLuke Glanton
- Bradley CooperAvery Cross
- Eva MendesRomina
- Ray LiottaDeluca
- Dane DeHaanJason
Curated adjacencies
01 / 03 admitted · 2 withheldEvery grouping names one axis of similarity — and the axes we refused. Pairings that could not be defended were withheld rather than filled in.
Similar in atmosphere, not in plot
Matched on air pressure: weather, silence, duration. Story, setting and genre were disregarded.