New Trailer For CHARLIE COUNTRYMAN Featuring Shia LaBeouf, Evan Rachel Wood and Rupert Grint

Charlie Countryman is a film that fell off a lot of people’s radars over time.  It’s surprising, since it boasts an amazing cast featuring Shia LaBeouf, Evan Rachel Wood, Rupert Grint, Melissa Leo, Mads Mikkelsen, Vincent D’Onofrio, John Hurt and Til Schweiger.  The premise is intriguing enough:

A footloose young man must undergo a dark and brutal trial by fire to save the love of his life in this flashy, violent adventure saga from Fredrik Bond, a celebrated director of television commercials. American Charlie Countryman’s (Shia LaBeouf) heart breaks as his mother (Melissa Leo) expires in a hospital, but seconds after her death, she reappears to him in spirit form and implores him to visit Bucharest, Romania. On the plane, he strikes up a conversation with an enigmatic stranger, who dies in mid-flight; not long after, Charlie crosses paths with the man’s daughter, beautiful cellist Gabi
Banyai (Evan Rachel Wood). The two quickly grow smitten with one another and begin an affair, but there are complications afoot, including Gabi’s marriage to a dissolute, psychopathic Romanian drug dealer named Nigel (Mads Mikkelsen) and one of his associates, mobster and strip-club owner Darko (Til Schweiger) — each of whom despises Charlie and wants to see him dead. A recklessness overcomes Charlie, however, and he soon reveals that he’s willing to do anything to claim Gabi, even if it means putting his very life on the line at the hands of these thugs.

I dig seeing Mads Mikkelsen play a violent gangster.  Currently, he’s kicking some serious ass on the small screen in NBC’s Hannibal.  It’s also nice to see Rupert Grint again in his post-Potter film career.  Really though, you can’t go wrong with Vincent D’Onofrio in anything.  He’s pretty amazing.
This film screened at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and received mixed reviews.  It currently holds a 33% on Rotten Tomatoes, but I’ve heard that it actually isn’t so bad.  Regardless, check out the trailer below and if it’s enough to get you interested, you can see it in theaters on November 15th as well as video on demand.  Also, Evan Rachel Wood doesn’t do a very good Russian accent… Yeesh.