Baby Driver [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray]

Director: Edgar Wright, Nira Park Edgar Wright

Overview

Visionary director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) returns with possibly his most audacious film to date: Baby Driver, a mix of car-chase action flick and jukebox musical. The movie's protagonist is a fresh-faced getaway driver who goes by the name of Baby (Ansel Elgort); he works for a crew of bank robbers in Atlanta, and listens to music all the time (including during robberies) to drown out the severe tinnitus he developed from a childhood accident. Baby's solitary life changes after he falls in love with a waitress named Debora (Lily James), but when he tries to escape from the criminal underworld and start over, he finds that getting out is easier said than done. Kevin Spacey, Jon Hamm, Jamie Foxx, Eiza Gonz?lez, and Jon Bernthal co-star. Features music from the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, the Beach Boys, Dave Brubeck, T. Rex, Beck, Blur, Barry White, Queen, Sky Ferreira, Simon & Garfunkel, Danger Mouse, Run the Jewels, and many more.

Product Details

Release Date:	10/10/2017
UPC:	0043396488267
Original Release:	2017
Rating:	R
Source:	Sony Pictures
Region Code:	A
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:52:00
Sales rank:	4,613

Special Features

Over 20 Minutes of Extended & Deleted Scenes; Mozart in a Go-Kart: Ansel Drives; Animatics; Also Includes: That's My Baby: Edgar Wright; Find Something Funky On There: The Choreography; I Need a Killler Track: The Music

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Kevin Spacey	Doc
Lily James	Debora
Eiza González	Darling
Sky Ferreira	Baby's Mom
Lance Palmer	Baby's Dad
Lanny Joon	JD
Micah Howard	Barista
Morgan Brown	Street Preacher
CJ Jones	Joseph
Hudson Meek	Young Baby
Viviana Chavez	Diner Waitress
Hal Whiteside	Cook
Flea	Eddie
Clay Donahue Fontenot	Marine
Brigitte Kali	Young Mother
Patrick Walker	Frat Boy #1,Frat Boy #1,Actor
David Robert Lewis	Waiter
Killer Mike	Restaurant Patron #2
Allison King	Nice Lady Teller
Richard Marcos Taylor	Armie,Armie
Paul Williams	The Butcher
Joe Loya	Security Guard
Andy McDermott	Freeze Cop
Andrea Frye	Carjack Lady
Thomas E. Haynes	Anchor
Russell B. Spencer	Anchor,Prison Guard
Cynne Simpson	Anchor
Keith Hudson	Diner Cop
Sidney Sewell	Hellcat Thug #1,Hellcat Thug #2
Elijah Everett	Parking Garage Security Guard
Morse Diggs	Morse Diggs
Walter Hill	Courtroom Interpreter
Morgan E. Brown	Street Preacher

Technical Credits

Edgar Wright

Edgar Wright	Director,Producer,Screenwriter,Executive Producer
Nira Park	Director
Leo Thompson	Producer
Adam Merims	Producer,Executive Producer
James Biddle	Executive Producer
Rachael Prior	Executive Producer
Francine Maisler	Casting
Michelle Wright	Executive Producer
Julian Slater	Sound/Sound Designer
Michael Clark	Sound Mixer

Editorial Reviews

He goes by the name of Baby. He's a young man with the face of a boy scout and severe tinnitus ringing in his ears, the latter the result of a car accident during his childhood that also killed his parents. He listens to music all the time to drown out the noise, everything from Dave Brubeck to Isaac Hayes to Queen. He works as the wheelman for a rotating crew of bank robbers, a job he's forced to carry out to pay off his debt to a mob boss. He uses music to create his own personalized soundtrack for every high-speed chase, driving along to the beat. He's the best driver in the business, "Mozart in a go-kart," a legend in the criminal underworld. But he doesn't think of himself as a criminal -- he's just their driver. He isn't really one of them. Is he? Baby Driver, the fifth feature from visionary director Edgar Wright (who also wrote the screenplay), is both a continuation of his past work and unlike anything he's ever done before. On the one hand, Baby's habit of constantly listening to tunes gives Wright an excuse to craft a thrillingly original movie that's like a cross between a crime thriller and a jukebox musical, full of elaborate action sequences choreographed to pop songs. On the other hand, this is basically his fifth film in a row about a man-child forced to go grow up fast when he's confronted with a dangerous situation. That theme takes on a new urgency here -- Baby (Ansel Elgort) isn't just stuck in a state of arrested development, he's a man completely adrift from humanity and deluding himself that he's an innocent among criminals -- yet the movie feels at times like an incredible dance remix of a song you've heard before. Even if Baby Driver is a triumph of style over substance, it's still got enough style for an entire summer's worth of blockbusters (seriously, there's no way to overhype how great the action scenes are, or how cool the soundtrack is). Wright's script also deserves credit for its depiction of the criminal underworld, which is smarter and more nuanced than you'd expect for a movie that's mostly built on the archetypes and clichés of past films. This is the rare action flick where the criminals aren't "cool" -- the crooks we meet (which include Jon Hamm, Jamie Foxx, Eiza González, and Jon Bernthal) are sweaty and desperate, addicts hooked on drugs and/or adrenaline who rob banks because they can't do anything else. Theirs is a dead-end life without the occasional moments where being an outlaw looks like a sweet deal or a middle finger to a bankrupt society (like the immortal scene in Goodfellas where Henry Hill uses his mob connections to get a prime seat at a nightclub), which makes it all the more important for Baby to escape. Baby's escape plan brings up the one minor flaw in the movie. He meets and falls in love with a beautiful waitress named Debora (Lily James), and asks her to go on the run with him. But while Edgar Wright is a director of many gifts, creating convincing relationships and three-dimensional female characters aren't among them. Debora is more a symbol than a person, and it's never clear what exactly she sees in Baby (whose social skills are, frankly, pretty minimal). Their romance could just be mutual attraction and nothing more, except that Debora agrees to start a new life with him after a few dates -- and doesn't even seem that phased when she gets dragged into the violence of his job. James is charming and does what she can with the role, but the "lovers on the run" aspect of the film ultimately falls flat. Weirdly, the most interesting relationship here is really the one between Baby and the mob boss known as Doc (Kevin Spacey), which turns out to be unexpectedly complex: Doc is by turns a father figure to Baby, a tough but fair boss, and a cruel manipulator. Baby Driver is a tremendous exercise in style, the kind of full-on sensory experience most summer movies can only dream of achieving. It feels like the culmination of everything Edgar Wright has done so far, and will hopefully be the film that finally brings him the attention of a mass audience. But as awesome as Baby Driver is, its greatness will be diminished in retrospect if Wright's next movie once again focuses on a pop-culture-obsessed loner dude in need of a reality check. He's travelled down this road as far as he can go -- it's time for him to find another path.