Living & Dying is a 2007 film starring Edward Furlong and Michael Madsen. The film was shot on location in Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. It was released on DVD in the US on December 25, 2007. Living & Dying tells the story of two killers who turn the tables on a group of bank robbers after a botched heist.
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Plot summary
Four people rob the vault of a bank at gunpoint. The only trouble is that a large armed police presence turns up as they try to drive away. They take shelter in a diner, where two psychos with guns, Max and Karl decide to take over, and have the (about) $500,000 for themselves.
The robbers become victims with the owners of the diner and the people who were eating there. At first Max and Karl let Sam, one of the robbers do all the talking to Det. Devlin, not letting on that they are there also. But then they decide to make demands as telephone negotiations are going nowhere and shoot one of the hostages in front of the police.
Lind, another negotiator has turned up and takes over, with a gung-ho attitude. A TV reporter is allowed in with a camera to film what they allow, but Max sees her hidden camera which is showing the police what is really going on there and for that she is brutally raped and dumped in a store room.
Devlin has been looking at the bank tapes and see that some of the money the robbers took was not supposed to be there. The bank manager confesses it was payment for an (illegal) arms deal. A phone call shows Lind to be fake and he is shot while shooting his accomplice.
A hidden phone reveals to the hostages that one of the robbers was an undercover cop (who has been shot dead) who would have a second gun, which a young woman manages to get and hand to Sam.
There is a shoot out and dozens of bullets from each gun, with few hits. The cops rush in and the siege is over, but there is still a surprise ending.
Cast
Edward Furlong as Sam
Michael Madsen as Agent Lind
Arnold Vosloo as Detective Rick Devlin
Bai Ling as Nadia
Jordana Spiro as Mary Jane
Tamer Karadağlı as Duca
Brandy Little as Alice
Yelda Reynaud as Detective Catherine Pulliam
Deniz Akkaya as Anne Noble
Trent Haaga as Max
Maurice Ripke as Bud
John F. Beach as Hodges
Curtis Wayne as Karl
Libby Villari as Miriam
Hayden Tweedie as Jenny
Monica Dean as Detective Lascar
Matthew Tompkins as Sergeant McCrea
Brady Coleman as Harold
Matthew Posey as Captain Burleson
Ken Thomas as Officer Bishop
Tom Zembrod as Bill
Robin McGee as Mr. Gris
Małgorzata Kożuchowska as Paulina
Jason Hammond as Fred
Producers
Brandon Baker .... producer
Laszlo Bene .... line producer
Mark Andrew Clark .... associate producer
Elif Dağdeviren .... executive producer
Ron Gell .... producer
Nesim Hason .... producer
Sezin Hason .... executive producer
Bülent Helvacı .... executive producer
Jon Keeyes .... producer
Production
Deniz Akkaya admitted that she had a hard time in the rape scene: "I saw the actors there for the first time. It was very difficult for me, but it ended in one shot. We didn't have to shoot it over and over."