THE BAKER Review: Jonathan Sobol’s Hit-Or-Miss Revenge Thriller Oddly Hits The Spot
The Baker is now playing in theaters from Falling Forward Films. Ron Perlman is back on screen as of the weekend in his latest, The Baker, a gritty new crime thriller from director Jonathan Sobol. The cast also includes Joel David Moore, Elias Koteas and Harvey Keitel, and introduces young actress Emma Ho from a script by Thomas Michael and Paolo Mancini, the latter who also co-stars. Where that script takes us is directly into the reclusive, stoic world of a man named “Pappi” (Perlman), who when not waking up aghast after every nightmaring sleep, dives right into his regimen as a baker with his own shop. Save for the watch on his wrist that brings him back to focus with a rhythmic tick, his life is about as quiet as quiet gets. Par for the course however is the intro in which we meet Peter (Moore), fresh off his […]
