Just Business

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Just Business
DVD cover
Directed byJonathan Dueck
Written byDavid Robbeson
Produced byJoshua Gray
StarringGina Gershon
Jonathan Watton
Earl Pastko
Zachary Bennett
Anthony J. Mifsud
Tony Bloom
Edited byMitch Lackie
Music byRyan Latham
Production
company
Peace Arch Motion Pictures
Distributed byPeace Arch Entertainment Group (2008) (USA)
Release date
  • May 6, 2008 (2008-05-06)
Running time
85 min
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Just Business is a 2008 Canadian thriller film directed by Jonathan Dueck and starring Gina Gershon, Jonathan Watton, Earl Pastko, and Zachary Bennett.[1] The movie was released on DVD on May 6, 2008.[2][3]

Plot[edit]

Elizar Perla is a retired art thief intent on committing his last crime. He targets David Gray, a famous art and rarities collector. Once the job is done, he disappears. Then the story focuses on the aftermath of the crime as the wealthy collector is desperate to get one particular painting back. Perla's daughter, lawyer Marty, agrees to track the missing artwork as her father is the main suspect (hence the name of the film).

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Reception[edit]

Confused, poorly acted and with the production values of a high-school media studies project, Just Business is a film with no redeeming features. In fact, even calling it a "film" is a stretch. The fact that someone, somewhere, has had the poor sense to release it to the public is far more puzzling than anything happening in this so called mystery story. From its muddled plot, a modern-day American crime thriller, based loosely on Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, to acting of epically poor proportions, it is not even so bad it's good.

—Oliver Good, The National[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Just Business (2008)". filmovizija.me. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  2. ^ "Just Business". moviefone.com. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  3. ^ "JUST BUSINESS". Artist Direct. artistdirect.com. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  4. ^ Good, Oliver (13 January 2009). "Just Business". The National. thenational.ae. Retrieved 7 October 2015.

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