One Way (2006)

My cousin gave me a bunch of DVDs last week and I watched another one of them.

Tonight, I watched a movie called One Way (2006), a story about big business, rape, blackmail and revenge.

The summary per IMDB is:

In New York, the competent creative director of Birk Advertising Eddie Shneider is living a successful moment of his professional life and is engaged and has just proposed Judy Birk, the daughter of the owner of the company where he works. Eddie is also a wolf and very successful with many women, and is having an affair with a neighbor of the street where he lives with Judy. When he gets the account of the greatest American airline for his company, he is promoted to partner and he celebrates with his assistant and friend Angelina Sable in a lunch party in a restaurant. After hours, when they are in the garage, Angeline notes that she had forgotten her car keys in the office, and when she returns, she is violently raped by the despicable brother of Judy, Anthony Birk. On the next morning, when Eddie arrives in the garage, he finds the traumatized Angeline on the floor and he takes her to a hospital. He returns to the company and Anthony blackmails Eddie with pictures of his many affairs. Eddie has to take a side between his career and engagement and his friendship with Angeline.

I had never heard of this movie before, but I thought I'd give it a try and was kept spellbound by the story. The summary doesn't mention that the Angeline character has a mysterious black army general as her "guardian angel." He kind of reminds me of the Clint Eastwood characters in High Plains Drifter (1973) and Pale Rider (1985).

The story has a prologue on the young Angeline and then it moves forward to present day New York City (actually Toronto).

Above, Lauren Lee Smith.

The movie stars Til Schweiger as Eddie Shneider, Lauren Lee Smith as Angelina Sable, Sebastien Roberts as Anthony Birk, Stefanie von Pfetten as Judy Birk and Michael Clarke Duncan as The General. Smith is more well-known for the television program CSI: Las Vegas.

This German production was written and directed by Reto Salimbeni.

My grade: A.