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Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone returns to action filmmaking this Friday with Savages, an ensemble piece with a solid cast and a story about drugs, cartels, betrayal, loyalty, and sacrifice. Early reviews peg it as Stone’s best film in years, and with a topical storyline that seems to play out every few nights on the news, this movie stands a chance at performing pretty well at the box office. In a new video featurette from Moviefone, Blake Lively and some of the other cast members talk about just how realistic this movie is at depicting violence near the border, while John Travolta talks in depth about his character in another video. Check them both out below!

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Savages blows into theaters this Friday, July 6th, 2012.
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Synopsis: Three-time Oscar®-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone returns to the screen with the ferocious thriller “Savages,” featuring the all-star ensemble cast of Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Aaron Johnson, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Benicio Del Toro, Salma Hayek, Emile Hirsch and Demian Bichir. The film is based on Don Winslow’s best-selling crime novel that was named one of The New York Times’ Top 10 Books of 2010.
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Laguna Beach entrepreneurs Ben (Johnson), a peaceful and charitable Buddhist, and his closest friend Chon (Kitsch), a former Navy SEAL and ex-mercenary, run a lucrative, homegrown industry—raising some of the best marijuana ever developed. They also share a one-of-a-kind love with the extraordinary beauty Ophelia (Lively). Life is idyllic in their Southern California town…until the Mexican Baja Cartel decides to move in and demands that the trio partners with them.
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When the merciless head of the BC, Elena (Hayek), and her brutal enforcer, Lado (Del Toro), underestimate the unbreakable bond among these three friends, Ben and Chon—with the reluctant, slippery assistance of a dirty DEA agent (Travolta)—wage a seemingly unwinnable war against the cartel. And so begins a series of increasingly vicious ploys and maneuvers in a high stakes, savage battle of wills.