The Contractor


9:00 pm - 11:05 pm, Saturday, January 24 on Film4 (14)

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About this Broadcast

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After being involuntarily discharged from the Marines, a man joins a paramilitary organisation to support his family in the only way he knows how. Drama, starring Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Gillian Jacobs and Kiefer Sutherland


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General Movie/Drama

Cast & Crew

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Chris Pine (Actor) .. James
Gillian Jacobs (Actor) .. Brianne
Ben Foster (Actor) .. Mike
Kiefer Sutherland (Actor) .. Rusty
Eddie Marsan (Actor) .. Virgil
Tyner Rushing (Actor) .. Christine
Nicolas Noblitt (Actor) .. Mike Jr
Nico Woulard (Actor) .. Dave
Tarik Saleh (Director)

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Did You Know..

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Chris Pine (Actor) .. James
Born: August 26, 1980 in Los Angeles
Best Known For: Captain James T Kirk in the movie reboot of Star Trek.
Early-life: Christopher Whitelaw Pine was born in Los Angeles on August 26, 1980. He comes from a showbiz family - his grandmother, parents and older sister have all been actors. After attending high school he studied English at the University of California; during that period he spent a year at Leeds University. He also won a place at the London Academy of Dramatic Art, but due to financial constraints, was forced to turn it down. Instead, he studied at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theatre.
Career: Pine's first professional job came in an episode of ER. Other small TV roles followed before The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement turned him into a teen heart-throb in 2004. Made-for-TV films, drama series and big-screen outings followed, but the only one of note was 2006's Smokin' Aces - until the chance to play Kirk in JJ Abrams' Star Trek reboot came his way. It immediately fired him onto Hollywood's A-list. Since then, he has starred in Unstoppable, This Means War, Star Trek Into Darkness and Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.
Quote: "I still assume that, any day, I'm going to be exposed as a fraud. That, like I once heard Gene Hackman say, the acting police are going to burst in and take away my card."
Trivia: He voiced the character Jack Frost in Rise of the Guardians.
Gillian Jacobs (Actor) .. Brianne
Ben Foster (Actor) .. Mike
Born: October 29, 1980 in Boston, Massachusetts
Best Known For: Playing Tanner Howard in Hell or High Water.
Early-life: Benjamin Foster was born on October 29, 1980 in Boston, Massachusetts to restaurant owners Gillian Kirwan and Steven Foster. His brother, Jon, is also an actor. When he was four years old, his family moved to Fairfield, Iowa, following a robbery at their home. He dropped out of high school and moved to Los Angeles when he was 16 years old to pursue acting.
Career: Foster appeared in the TV series Flash Forward between 1996 and 1997. His first film appearance was in Kounterfeit (1996) and his first starring film role was in Get Over It (2001). He has appeared in a number of major films, including Hostage (2005), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), 3:10 to Yuma (2007) and Hell or High Water (2016). His TV credits include Six Feet Under, My Name is Earl and Freaks and Geeks.
Quote: On creating characters: "Every role, every gig, you have to find a quality and you have to love the person. Not just like him, but love the person so you can care about what they care about."
Trivia: When he was 12, a play that he wrote, directed and starred in won second place in an international competition.
Kiefer Sutherland (Actor) .. Rusty
Born: December 21, 1966 in London
Best Known For: Real-time drama series 24.
Early-life: Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland was born in London on December 21, 1966. He's the son of actors Donald Sutherland and Shirley Douglas, and grandson of former Saskatchewan Premier Tommy Douglas. He has a twin sister called Rachel and was named after Warren Kiefer, the director of his father's debut movie, Castle of the Living Dead. His early childhood was spent in California, but he lived in Canada with his mother after his parents split. Sutherland left school at 15 to study acting in New York, then moved to Los Angeles, where he sometimes slept rough to save money.
Career: He made his film debut alongside his father in the 1983 movie Max Dugan Returns, then took the lead in The Bay Boy. Although it wasn't a hit, the movie was well received, and led to bigger roles, including Stand By Me, The Lost Boys, and the Young Guns films. The 1990s weren't as successful, although highlights were A Few Good Men and A Time to Kill. He also directed the movies Last Light, Truth or Consequences, NM, and Woman Wanted, before starring in and producing the hugely successful 24, for which he won Golden Globe and Emmy awards. He's also appeared in the movies Phone Booth, Taking Lives, The Sentinel, Mirrors, and the TV series Touch.
Quote: "When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. But I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully."
Trivia: Sutherland plays ice hockey on a celebrity team.
Eddie Marsan (Actor) .. Virgil
Born: June 09, 1968 in Stepney, London
Best Known For: Being an acclaimed character actor.
Early-life: Edward Maurice Charles Marsan was born in Stepney, London, on June 9, 1968. Eddie landed a job in a men's clothes shop on his 16th birthday and the shop's owner, Mr Bennett, would go on to change his life when he clubbed together with Marsan's mum to pay for acting lessons. Eddie went on to study acting at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, and the Academy of the Science of Acting & Directing.
Career: Marsan's first TV credit was as a yob in a 1992 episode of ITV sitcom The Piglet Files. He went on to have roles in a number of TV shows such as EastEnders, Casualty, Game On, Grange Hill, Kavanagh QC and The Bill. He made his big-screen debut in 1997's Get Well Soon and since then he has appeared in a number of low-budget British movies and big Hollywood blockbusters, including Gangs of New York (2002), 21 Grams (2003), Vera Drake (2004), Mission: Impossible III (2006), Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), V for Vendetta (2005), Hancock (2008), Sherlock Holmes (2009) and its 2011 sequel, War Horse (2011), Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), and The World's End (2013). More recently, he returned to TV in American crime drama Ray Donovan, and British drama Southcliffe.
Quote: "I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience."
Trivia: He is a patron for the School of the Science of Acting and Kazzum, a children's theatre company.
Tyner Rushing (Actor) .. Christine
Nicolas Noblitt (Actor) .. Mike Jr
Nico Woulard (Actor) .. Dave
Tarik Saleh (Director)

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