Redline (2007) on Netflix
Natasha Martin, a mechanic who fronts an unsigned band, gets an offer to drive in a high-stakes Las Vegas race. Carlo, home from Iraq, comes to town with his brother Jason.
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Plot summary
Natasha Martin works as an auto mechanic and sings in an unsigned band. After she services his Ford GT, music producer Infamous flies her to Las Vegas on his private jet. She is a skilled race driver as well, and the death of her father in a NASCAR crash years before still affects her. Carlo, a U.S. Air Force veteran just back from Iraq, meets his brother Jason, who lives with their uncle Michael D'Orazio, a mob boss Carlo blames for the family's ruin. Michael's counterfeiting operation has failed, leaving him millions in debt to a syndicate run by a figure called the Godfather. Outside Las Vegas, wealthy men gather to bet on a race. When Infamous's driver fakes an ankle injury, Natasha takes his seat for $300,000 and a recording contract.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Redline (2007)
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- Sadek was engaged to the soap opera actress Nadia Bjorlin, and he produced Redline using his subprime lending firm as his source of funding, to show off his car collection and to help Bjorlin break out of the soap opera scene.
- Daniel Sadek, a third-grade dropout from Lebanon, worked at American gas stations and car dealerships before setting up the subprime lending firm Quick Loan Funding in 2002. By 2007 it had approved US$4 billion in subprime mortgages and his take-home earnings reached US$5 million a month, spent on homes, supercars and gambling.
- In March 2007 Eddie Griffin took part in a charity race at Irwindale Speedway to promote the film, driving an Enzo owned by Sadek. He lost control on a practice run and crashed into a concrete barrier, walking away unharmed while the US$1.5 million supercar was badly damaged.
- The film cost US$26 million and took only US$6.8 million in North America in six weeks, and Cartoon Network sued Sadek on top of that for failing to pay the US$845,000 advertising fee.
- The film's failure worsened Sadek's position: after the demise of his company he lost his escrow and lending licenses over withdrawing millions from his corporate accounts to gamble in Vegas, was sued by Bellagio and Wells Fargo over unpaid debts, and declared bankruptcy in 2009.
- Vanity Fair listed Sadek at number 86 in its "100 to Blame" for the economic crisis, dubbing him "Predator Zero in the subprime-mortgage game".
