Schrader usually tends toward grounded human drama and smaller-scale pictures, but he stepped outside of his comfort zone in the early 2000s to work with a major studio – Warner Bros by way of Morgan ...

That Schrader cast Gere as the filmmaker also says something. The last time they worked together, both were in ascendance. When they made the sexy cause célèbre neo-noir “American Gigolo” (1980), Gere ...