Noirish thriller The Big Bang coming to theaters on May 13th

By Eric Walkuski

Posted 15 years ago

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

With a cast including Antonio Banderas, Sam Elliot, William Fichtner, James Van Der Beek, Sienna Guillory, Bill Duke and Snoop Dogg, THE BIG BANG seems like it might be worth keeping an eye on. Having had its world premiere at Sundance, the Tony Krantz-directed film was subsequently snapped up by Anchor Bay. It will hit theaters in LA and NY on MAY 13th before heading to DVD and Blu-ray on MAY 24th.

Late one night, Los Angeles private investigator, Ned Cruz (Banderas) gets a visit from a recently paroled Russian boxer with an intriguing job offer: find Lexie, his missing girlfriend—and the 30-million dollar stash of diamonds she’s hiding. As Detective Cruz sets out to find her, the clues send him into the city’s seediest corners, from a Hollywood action star with a dirty little secret (James Van Der Beek, “Dawson’s Creek,” Varsity Blues), to an enterprising porn producer who takes a personal interest in his own work (Snoop Dogg, Old School, Starsky & Hutch), and a kinky waitress with an unusual fetish for particle physics (Autumn Reeser,“No Ordinary Family,” “Entourage”). Lexie proves to be as elusive as she is beautiful and Cruz becomes obsessed with finding her.

With time running out, Cruz discovers the trail leads to reclusive billionaire (Sam Elliott, Thank You for Smoking, Tombstone), and his physicist (Jimmi Simpson, Date Night, “Breakout Kings”), intent on recreating The Big Bang underneath the New Mexico desert. Tailed by a trio of cops also looking to find the missing diamonds, and with the body count piling up, Cruz soon realizes that what appeared to be a standard missing person’s case is anything but, and could quite possibly bring about the end of the world as we know it.

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