Cement (film)

Cement
DVD cover of Cement
Directed by	Adrian Pasdar
Produced by	D.J. Paul Adrian Pasdar
Written by	Justin Monjo
Starring	Chris Penn Jeffrey Wright Sherilyn Fenn Anthony DeSando Henry Czerny
Music by	Doug Caldwell Paul Horrors Anthony Vanger
Cinematography	Geary McLeod
Edited by	Jack Haigis
Production company	Ocelot Films Inc
Distributed by	Lionsgate Home Entertainment
Release dates	April 14, 2000 (WorldFest) November 20, 2001
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Cement is a 2000 crime drama-thriller film directed by Adrian Pasdar and written by Justin Monjo. The film was shot in Los Angeles, California, USA, and was Pasdar's first film as director.

Plot

Los Angeles vice detectives Bill Holt (Chris Penn) and Nin (Jeffrey Wright) have entered the gangster and drug scenes and have allied with drug kingpin Truman Rickhardt (Henry Czerny). As he tries to stop Holt, Nin narrates the events that led Holt to torture Truman’s brother Sean (Anthony DeSando) by chaining him inside an iron box that's slowly filling with cement. Cops on the take, missing money, Holt's tempting wife Lyndel (Sherilyn Fenn), dead police officers are implicated in the events.

Featured cast

Actor	Role
Chris Penn	Bill Holt
Jeffrey Wright	Nin
Anthony DeSando	Sean Rickhart
Sherilyn Fenn	Lyndel Holt
Henry Czerny	Truman Rickhart
Gregory Jbara	Fergus Rickhart
Titus Welliver	Mo
Yorgo Constantine	Danny
Richard Edson	Robbo
Kevin Jackson	Carter
Max Martini	Mic

Awards

• 2000: AngelCiti film festival: Audience Award, Adrian Pasdar, D.J. Paul

External links

• Cement at the Internet Movie Database
• Cement at AllMovie
• Cement review at Allmovie
• Cement at Filmmaker magazine
• Cement at BoxOffice.com