Drive: Book vs. Movie
Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive (2011) adapts James Sallis’s 2005 crime novel. A stunt driver’s work as a getaway driver draws him into a violent dispute after a robbery goes wrong.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- James Sallis
- Year
- 2005
- Pages
- 160Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 3 hr 28 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Richard Powers
Known only as Driver, a stunt performer takes criminal jobs on the understanding that his responsibility ends at the wheel. A double-cross leaves him a target and turns that professional boundary into something he can no longer afford. Moving between his past and the aftermath of the job, the story follows his search for the people who tried to have him killed.
- Director
- Nicolas Winding Refn
- Writer
- Hossein Amini, James Sallis
- Year
- 2011
- Runtime
- 1 hr 40 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks
- Genre
- Crime, Drama, neo-noir, Thriller
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
A quiet Los Angeles mechanic and stunt driver becomes close to his neighbor Irene and her young son. When her husband returns from prison owing money, he offers to drive for a robbery meant to settle the debt. The job leaves him caught between rival criminals, and protecting Irene requires him to bring violence into the life he has kept apart from his work.
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