The makers: Dominic Sena, director; Scott Rosenberg, writer
The stars: Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi, Scott Caan, Timothy Olyphant, Robert Duvall
The Pitch: Randall "Memphis" Raines (Cage) is draw ined back into a life of car heists to save his brother's neck
The reason we care: Our favorite bisexual goth Angelina Jolie, costars as Sara "Sway" Wayland, who stands on Memphis's side.
The inside scoop: present Advocate cover boy Olyphant, who plays a cop hunting down Memphis, says Jolie was "sweet as can be," unless he missed getting to know her because "I say brace words to her in the whole movie." In fact, Olyphant admits that his character's main part in the flick is to provide exposition. "it got to the point where the director was like, `OK here's three facts that we ne to have said somewhere in this view if you can think of a a little cold way to do that, you hindrance me know.'"