CONTRABAND

NOW SHOWING IN COLOMBO

Contraband – the American action thriller film directed by Baltasar Kormákur, starring Mark Wahlberg and Kate Beckinsale is now being screened at the Majestic Cineplex ‘Platinum' and Liberty lite in Colombo.

Chris Farraday (Mark Wahlberg) is an ex-smuggler who works installing security alarms and lives a peaceful life with his wife, Kate (Kate Beckinsale), and their children in New Orleans. One day, Chris and Kate learn that her brother Andy (Caleb Landry Jones) was smuggling drugs in a cargo ship, but was forced to drop them into the ocean in order to avoid arrest during a surprise inspection by the U.S. Customs. Andy's boss, ruthless mobster Tim Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi), is infuriated and wants Andy to repay him the drugs' worth in money.

Chris meets with Briggs, who threatens to kill Chris' family if Andy doesn't pay $700,000 in two weeks. Chris realizes that the only way to raise the money is to run contraband and joins the crew of a cargo ship where his father Bud (William Lucking), currently in prison, used to run contraband, in order to smuggle $10,000,000 in fake bills from Panama with the help of Andy and Chris' old friend Danny Raymer (Lukas Haas). While Chris is gone, Briggs and a couple of his thugs break into Chris's house and scares his wife and kids. When one of the kids pushes the thugs, the thugs accidentally fires off his pistol to the wall. Briggs and his thugs then leaves, causing Chris to asks his best friend, Sebastian Abney (Ben Foster), to take care of his family.