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Russell Ira Crowe (born April 7, 1964) is a New Zealand actor and film director. His work on screen has earned him various accolades, including an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a British Academy Film Award. Crowe was born in New Zealand, spending ten years of his childhood in Australia and residing there permanently by age 21. He began acting in Australia and had his break-out role in Romper Stomper (1992). He gained international recognition in the late 1990s for his starring roles in L.A. Confidential (1997) and The Insider (1999). Crowe gained wider stardom for playing the title role of Gladiator (2000), which earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor. Further acclaim came for portraying real-life mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. in A Beautiful Mind (2001). Crowe then starred in several films in the 2000s, including Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), Cinderella Man (2005), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), American Gangster (2007), State of Play (2009), and Robin Hood (2010). Crowe has since appeared in the films Les Misérables (2012), Man of Steel (2013), Noah (2014), and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022). In 2014, he made his directorial debut with the drama The Water Diviner, in which he also starred. Aside from acting, Crowe has co-own the National Rugby League (NRL) team South Sydney Rabbitohs since 2006.
Mallory Newman is a naïve and impressionable eighteen-year-old growing up in the 1960s. After the passing of her mother, her life at home becomes nearly unbearable with her father becoming more and more overprotective over her, to the point of where he barely allows her to leave the house. Lonely and yearning for more in life, she decides to take part in her church's new volunteer program, which eventually leads her to the Caney Correctional Facility, where, at a soul-winning meeting for the prisoners, she meets twenty-two-year-old John Arrington. The two immediately form a bond, and following the visit, begin to write each other for six months. John, through his charm and likeability, is able to convince not only Mallory, but the court judges of his own innocence, as he is soon released from jail. After seeking Mallory out, he asks her to leave with him. Although she accepts, her father immediately disapproves and forbids such a thing. And it is in that exact moment that Mallory realizes her beloved Johnny isn't quite as innocent as he made himself out to be.
