Jake Gyllenhaal's 153-Minute Crime Thriller Takes No Prisoners on New Streaming Home
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Jake Gyllenhaal's 2013 crime thriller just landed on a new streaming platform, and it's already one of the biggest movies in the US. Gyllenhaal has starred in some incredibly dark films across his career. Donnie Darko kicked things off back in 2000. After that, he starred in The Day After Tomorrow, Jarhead, Zodiac, Enemy, Nightcrawler, Nocturnal Animals, and so many more (needless to say, they are some dark movies).
But in 2013, he teamed up with Hugh Jackman and the renowned director Denis Villeneuve for an intensely dark psychological crime thriller, and 13 years later, it's now a major streaming hit.
Apple TV has slowly been adding licensed movies to its streaming platform. After beginning with all-time classics like E.T. and Jurassic Park, it has since expanded to dark crime thrillers. Jake Gyllenhaal's Prisoners was added to Apple TV on Nov. 2, and it's taking over the platform. At the time of writing, Prisoners is the third most popular movie on the platform.
Ryan Gosling's The Nice Guys is in second, with A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving in second. It's also the first time that three non-Apple Original movies have held the top three places on the streamer's US chart. John Cena's Matchbox is in fourth.
Leave it to the director behind Incendies and Sicario to deliver a tense and psychologically scarring crime thriller — with a star-studded cast to boot. Hugh Jackman leads the film as Keller Dover, who faces every parent's worst nightmare when his 6-year-old daughter and her friend are abducted. Gyllenhaal plays Detective Loki, who is the lead investigator on the case.
The only lead is a mysterious camper van parked on their street. While Dover slowly loses his mind with fear and anxiety, Loki will do anything to solve the case... no matter how many lines it crosses.
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Apple TV began its licensed movies experiment back in September, and it was a gigantic success. 19 movies were added to the platform then, and many of them shot up the streaming charts. Apple TV has always produced good series, but its Original movie offerings have long been lacking anything decent. Needless to say, the fresh addition of 19 movies went down a treat. On Nov.
2, Apple doubled down on that plan and added 20 new films. Alongside Prisoners, here's every movie that was added to Apple TV on Nov. 2:
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