Shot Caller (2017)

Overview

"Shot Caller" is a 2017 American crime thriller directed by Ric Roman Waugh from his own script. The film tells the story of the transformation of successful family man Jacob Harlon (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) into a hardened prison gangster nicknamed "Money". After Jacob gets into a fatal DUI car accident, he is sentenced to imprisonment in a California maximum-security prison. To survive among violent factions, he is forced to join a white gang and carry out their orders, gradually losing his own identity. After parole, the gang leaders force him to organize a major criminal operation against a rival gang on the streets of Southern California. The film also stars Omari Hardwick, Lake Bell, Jon Bernthal, Emory Cohen, Jeffrey Donovan, Evan Jones, Benjamin Bratt, and Holt McCallany.