Collateral 🎥 2004 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Max Durocher is a Los Angeles cab driver trying to save his earnings and start his own limousine business. One of the evening’s fares is federal prosecutor Annie Farrell, who works for the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California. They strike up a conversation and Annie gives Max her business card. Max’s next fare is Vincent, who tells Max that he is in Los Angeles for one night to complete a real estate deal and engages Max for the night to drive him to a series of meetings. As Max waits at the first stop, a corpse falls onto his car. Vincent reveals himself to be a hitman.

He forces Max to hide the body in the trunk and continue driving. LAPD Detective Ray Fanning arrives where Vincent made the kill, revealing the victim to be a police informant. At the second stop, Vincent restrains Max’s hands to the steering wheel. While Vincent is away, Max tries to use the horn to signal for help. Four men come around to the car to rob him and seize Vincent’s briefcase. Vincent returns, shoots two of them dead and retrieves the briefcase. Vincent orders Max to a jazz club to find his third target, Daniel, who is set to testify against Vincent’s client.

Max pleads with Vincent to let Daniel go and Vincent claims he will if Daniel can answer one question about Miles Davis. Despite Daniel giving a seemingly correct answer, Vincent is dissatisfied with it and shoots Daniel in the head. Learning of Max’s nightly visits to the hospital to see his mother, Vincent insists that Max proceed with the visit. At the hospital, Ida proudly tells Vincent that Max has his own limousine company, revealing Max has been lying to her for her approval. Overwhelmed, Max steals Vincent’s briefcase and runs, eventually hurling it onto a freeway where it is destroyed.

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