The Equalizer (2014) on Netflix
R20142h 12mActionCrimeThriller
Robert McCall works at a Boston home improvement store and spends sleepless nights reading at a diner. There he meets Teri, a teenager held by Russian gangsters, and decides to help her.
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- Rotten Tomatoes61%
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Plot summary
Robert McCall works at a home improvement store in Boston and helps his coworker Ralphie get ready for a security guard exam. He sleeps poorly, so he passes his nights in an all-night diner with a book and tea. There he talks with Teri, a teenage sex worker; she tells him her real name is Alina and gives him a CD of her own singing. Her pimp, Slavi, turns up one night, slaps her and drives her off, leaving McCall his business card. When McCall next hears of her, she is in intensive care after a beating. From her friend Mandy he learns how Slavi treats the girls he controls.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Equalizer (2014)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Long before Denzel Washington took the role, Russell Crowe was trying to bring The Equalizer to the screen himself: in June 2010 he was reported to be setting it up with Paul Haggis directing, and meant to play Robert McCall.
- Anna Kendrick, Kelly Macdonald and Nina Dobrev were all considered for the young woman McCall protects, before Chloë Grace Moretz was announced in the part on 10 May 2013.
