Driven to Kill

Driven to Kill
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Directed by	Jeff King[disambiguation needed ]
Produced by	Steven Seagal
Starring	Steven Seagal Laura Mennell Mike Dopud Crystal Lowe Igor Jijikine
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	May 19, 2009 (2009-05-19)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$10 million

Driven to Kill is a 2009 straight-to-DVD action film. Directed by Jeff King^{[disambiguation needed ]}, the movie stars Steven Seagal, Mike Dopud, Ingrid Torrance, Zak Santiago, Crystal Lowe, Igor Jijikine, Inna Korobkina, Aleks Panunovic and Ed Anders. The film was released on May 19, 2009 on DVD and Blu-ray.

Plot

Ruslan Drachev (Steven Seagal) is a former Russian mobster and a current writer of hard boiled pulp fiction novels living in California when he gets a call from his ex-wife Catherine (Inna Korobkina) that his daughter Lanie (Laura Mennell) is getting married.

Not wanting to miss the wedding, Ruslan catches the red eye to New Jersey and heads into Trenton to see Lanie, who is an attorney in the D.A.'s office in Trenton. Ruslan is somewhat concerned that Lanie is marrying Stephan Arbarn (Dmitry Chepovetsky), the son of Mikhail Abramov (Igor Jijikine), the Russian mafia boss that Ruslan worked for 20 years ago.

Ruslan finds that Catherine is now married to wealthy local defense attorney Terry Goldstein (Robert Wisden). Lanie tells Ruslan that Terry is a jerk. Ruslan pulls Stephan to the side, and Stephan assures Ruslan that he has no interest of joining the family business and just wants to love his new wife and start a new life.

After everyone but Catherine and Lanie leaves to go to the church where the wedding will take place, A pair of men break in, stab Catherine to death, and then stab Lanie, leaving her in critical condition.

Detective Norden (Ingrid Torrance) and Detective Lavastic (Zak Santiago) are heading the investigation. It was made to look like a robbery, but Ruslan knows full well that it was not a robbery. At East Lawn Hospital, Dr. Brown (Linda Minard) tells Ruslan that she expects Lanie to recover.

Ruslan starts his own investigation and learns that Mikhail, who hates Ruslan, was behind the attack. Terry, who is Mikhail's attorney, is also in on it. Mikhail despised the thought of Stephan marrying a prosecuting attorney instead of following in Mikhail's footsteps, and Catherine was about to blow the whistle on some of Terry's corrupt activities.

Ruslan is willing to do whatever it takes to make Mikhail and Terry pay for what they did.

Cast

• Steven Seagal as Ruslan
• Robert Wisden as Terry Goldstein
• Laura Mennell as Lanie Drachev
• Mike Dopud as Boris
• Crystal Lowe as Tanya
• Dmitry Chepovetsky as Stephen
• Igor Jijikine as Mikhail
• Sergei Nasibov as Ilya
• Holly Eglington as Regime
• Dan Payne as Sergei
• Ingrid Torrance as Detective Norden
• Zak Santiago as Detective Lavastic
• Inna Korobkina as Catherine Goldstein
• Aleks Paunovic as Tony Links
• Mike Desabrais as Thug #5
• Reg Tupper as Pawn Shop Owner
• Ed Anders as Thug #3
• Linda Minard as Doctor Brown

External links

• Driven to Kill at the Internet Movie Database