The Square (2008)
Directed by Nash Edgerton
Ray, a construction worker trapped in an unhappy marriage, pursues an affair with his neighbor, Carla. Carla's husband, Greg, is a mobster who keeps large sums of drug money in their home. With this in mind, Carla comes up with a plan: She and Ray will steal Greg's money, burn down her house, convince Greg the money was lost in the fire and then run away together. Carla's scheme, however, doesn't go off as planned.
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The Gift marks the directorial debut of Joel Edgerton who had written several screenplays (Felony, The Square) but was still waiting for a project that would make a great directorial debut.
As a founder of Australia's Blue Tongue Film Collective, writer/director/star Joel Edgerton wrote the twisty thriller "The Square," directed by his brother Nash.
Aussie sibs Nash and Joel Edgerton have been badass cinema staples ever since their profoundly wicked thriller The Square blew everyone’s mind at Austin’s Fantastic Fest 2008.
Before becoming a rising Hollywood star, Joel Edgerton worked with his brother Nash in their native Australia on the delightfully nasty 2008 thriller The Square, which Joel wrote and produced and starred in (Nash directed).
Edgerton, whose writing credits include the tight Aussie thrillers “The Rover” and “The Square,” ratchets up the tension without really ramping up the suspense.
Edgerton, a screenwriter for “The Square” and “Felony” and actor in “Zero Dark Thirty” and “The Rover,” has made a slick, smart, modestly scaled suspense drama that initially suggests a “Fatal Attraction”-style Hollywood thriller.