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The Follow

The Follow

20016.80h 11m

Overview

The Driver is hired by a nervous movie manager to spy on a paranoid actor's wife. During his tailing of the wife, the Driver describes the right way to tail someone. As he follows her he begins to fear what he might learn of her apparently tragic life. He discovers the wife is fleeing the country and returning to her mother's, and that she's been given a black eye, likely by her husband. He returns the money for the job, refusing to tell where the wife is, and drives off telling the manager never to call him again.

Directed by Wong Kar-Wai
Written by Andrew Kevin Walker
Produced by Jacky Pang, Robert Van de Weteringe Buys, Aristides McGarry
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Top Cast

Clive Owen

Clive Owen

The Driver

Mickey Rourke

Mickey Rourke

Husband

Adriana Lima

Adriana Lima

Wife

Forest Whitaker

Forest Whitaker

The Employer

About The Follow

The Follow is a action, mystery, romance film released in 2001. Directed by Wong Kar-Wai, it stars Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke, Adriana Lima. The Driver is hired by a nervous movie manager to spy on a paranoid actor's wife. During his tailing of the wife, the Driver describes the right way to tail someone. As he follows her he begins to fear what he might learn of her apparently tragic life. He discovers the wife is fleeing the country and returning to her mother's, and that she's been given a black eye, likely by her husband. He returns the money for the job, refusing to tell where the wife is, and drives off telling the manager never to call him again.

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