Trailer Park | Nightcrawler

Donnie Darko goes darker in this pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles.

8 October 2014, 1:00pm

1 min read

Blood-hack: Jake Gyllenhaal muscles his way into the morally corrupt world of LA crime journalism

In Nightcrawler, Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism.

Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of night crawling, where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are converted into dollars and cents.

Aided by Rene Russo as Nina, a veteran of the blood-sport that is local TV news, Lou blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story.