The Place beyond The Pines (2012)

Ryan Gosling plays Luke, a motorbike stunt rider, who takes to a life of crime to help fund his child, one fateful day a robbery goes wrong, his life, the arresting Officer Avery (Bradley Cooper) and their family's lives are changed forever.

This film comes with a high pedigree, not just the excellent cast of Gosling, Cooper plus support from Eva Mendes and Ray Liotta, but this is directors Derek Cianfrance follow up to the excellent "Blue Valentine" and it doesn't disappoint. Bleak, beautifully acted, top class American cinema, again Gosling is the star of the show, the man can do no wrong in my book, and another great performance from Cooper, proving again what a fine actor he is  after "Silver Linings Playbook".

An Intelligent, engrossing adult drama.

*****