A burned-out ex-baseball player finds himself embroiled in a dangerous struggle for survival amidst the criminal underbelly of 1990s New York City.
Hank Thompson was a high-school baseball phenom who can’t play anymore, but everything else is going okay. He’s got a great girl, tends bar at a New York dive, and his favourite team is making an underdog run at the pennant. When his punk-rock neighbour Russ asks him to take care of his cat for a few days, Hank suddenly finds himself caught in the middle of a motley crew of threatening gangsters. They all want a piece of him; the problem is he has no idea why. As Hank attempts to evade their ever-tightening grip, he’s got to use all his hustle to stay alive long enough to find out…
Darkly comic crime thriller directed by Darren Aronofsky, with a screenplay by Charlie Huston based on his book of the same name. Stars Austin Butler, Regina King, Zoë Kravitz, Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber, Vincent D’Onofrio, Griffin Dunne, Benito A Martínez Ocasio and Carol Kane.