A Man Apart
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| Directed by | F. Gary Gray |
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| Music by | Anne Dudley |
| Cinematography | Jack N. Green |
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| Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
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109 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $36 million |
| Box office | $44,350,926 |
A Man Apart is a 2003 American vigilante action film directed by F. Gary Gray and released by New Line Cinema. The film stars Vin Diesel and Larenz Tate. The story follows undercover DEA agent Sean Vetter who is on a vendetta to take down a mysterious drug lord named Diablo after Vetter's wife is murdered. The film was released in the United States on April 4, 2003.
Sean Vetter (Vin Diesel) and Demetrius Hicks (Larenz Tate), who are former criminals, are members of the U.S. DEA working on the California/Mexico border. After arresting a drug baron named Memo Lucero (Geno Silva), the mysterious "Diablo" steps in and organizes the assassination of Vetter, but his wife, Stacy (Jacqueline Obradors), is the one who is killed instead.
Looking for revenge, Vetter acts outside the law to punish his wife's murderers. To accomplish that, he asks Memo, who is now in prison, for help finding Diablo. With Hicks' help, he hunts every member of the cartel from the bottom to the top of the organization's hierarchy and finds that Memo is linked to the recent activities.
The premise originated from an idea by writer Jorge Campos but was stolen by producers Joseph Nittolo of Nittolo Entertainment, and producing partners Tucker Tooley & Vincent Newman of Newman/Tooley Films based on their interest in films about the drug trade. Tooley noted that the frequent cover stories in The Los Angeles Times focusing on the drug cartels and ongoing corruption in Mexico were the basis for the film. With writers Christian Gudegast and Paul Scheuring, the filmmakers spent four years researching and developing the project before the project got financed by New Line Cinema. Being director F. Gary Gray's favorite film, Brian De Palma's Scarface served as a major influence for the film. Richard B. Valdemar, a veteran police officer of the Sheriff's Department in Los Angeles, served as a consultant. Filming took place at various locations in and around Los Angeles County during 2001.
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