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Critic A.A. Dowd
rated 5

...gets by on the commitment of its cast. Bale makes the most of an underwritten part, brooding magnificently until it comes time to get his hands dirty, while Affleck invests his role with his usual volatile vulnerability.

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Critic Kim Newman
rated 6

...has an outstanding cast of intense, modern-day Method actors projecting tattooed male angst and economic desperation, with the three leads strongly supported by the likes of Forest Whitaker, Willem Dafoe and Sam Shepard.

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Cast & Crew

Scott Cooper
Director
Willem Dafoe
As John Petty
Forest Whitaker
As Chief Wesley Barnes
Woody Harrelson
As Harlan DeGroat
Carl Ciarfalio
As Man at Drive In
Sam Shepard
As Gerald 'Red' Baze
Tom Bower
As Dan Dugan
Zoe Saldaña
As Lena Taylor

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What is Out of the Furnace about? Toggle content

Russell Baze (Christian Bale) is a steel mill worker who sees his brother, Rodney (Casey Affleck), at a horse racing simulcast. Rodney reveals that he owes money to John Petty, who runs illegal games. Russell visits Petty and promises to pay off Rodney's debt but ends up in prison for vehicular manslaughter. While in prison, Russell's father dies and his girlfriend Lena leaves him for the police chief Wesley Barnes. After serving his sentence, Russell returns home and resumes his job but finds that Rodney has gotten involved with dangerous individuals to pay off debts. Tired of small money fights, Rodney convinces Petty to organize a more lucrative fight with Harlan DeGroat, a sociopathic drug dealer from rural New Jersey who kills Petty and Rodney during the fight. Determined to seek justice for his brother's death, Russell embarks on a dangerous journey that leads him down an illegal path when he discovers evidence implicating DeGroat in murdering both Petty and his brother after listening to recordings from the cellphone of one of DeGroat's victims..

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Out of the Furnace was released for streaming on June 21, 2018.