History Film / Snitch

''Snitch'' is a 2013 CrimeDrama starring DwayneJohnson.

* CaliforniaDoubling: The Bossier City-Shreveport area in Louisiana doubled for Jefferson City.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: The drug-lord decides go peacefully, because his two year old son was in the car.]]

* BadassNormal: John becomes this by the end.

* {{Badass}}: Danial [[spoiler: Storms a drug house single handedly, with only a pistol.]]
** ColonelBadass: The drug-lord.
** BadassNormal: John becomes this by the end.

Tropes used:

* WitnessProtection: After the case is finished, John's family has to go into hiding in that program and he's made it clear that he's going to have a difficult conversation with his second wife about that. Daniel turned that down, preferring to disappear on his own, but the $100,000 reward he gets for his role in the bust will help.

RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Malik]]

* {Badass}: Danial [[spoiler: Storms a drug house single handedly, with only a pistol.]]

* {Badass}: Danial [[Storms a drug house single handedly, with only a pistol.]]

* Badass: Danial [[Storms a drug house single handedly, with only a pistol.]]

* The Dreaded: Malik is said to be this by police. Apparently, instead of having a few guys that robbed him, killed by drive by, he opted to personally "bleed" them.

* PrisonRape: Rather confusing and YMMV to say the least. At one point, John's son is assaulted sent to the infirmary for 36 stitches. It's not elaborated as to what exactly happened, and arguable not implied to have been rape. But the pg-13 rating does claim "Strong Sexual Content", despite the film not even depicting nudity. Most reviewers believe this trope is the reason why.

Appalled at this, John desperately offers to help the opportunistic District Attorney Joanne Keeghan (SusanSarandon) bring down criminals big enough to help his son. She's initially not open to it, but after John is nearly killed trying to do it anyway on the street on his own, she agrees to set him with the DEA for the case. On his end, John gets the unwitting help of a ex-con employee, Daniel James, to introduce him to a local gang leader to get the bust ball rolling.

He plays a construction business owner, John, whose estranged son, Jason, is set up and arrested for a drug trafficking charge. Considering minimum sentencing laws and the fact that he has nobody he wishes to inform on for the prosecutors for leniency, the boy could be facing 10-20 prison sentence for a first time offender.

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Throughout the film, many of the ex-cons talk about having two strikes. Missouri is one of the few states that doesn't have that law.

* {{Anvilicious}}: The film makes it really clear that John's family wouldn't be in this mess if it weren't that the mandatory minimum sentence laws weren't so unjust to first time offenders.

* HeReallyCanAct: Whatever faults the film has, many critics have noted that this is the best acting they've seen from Johnson.

* HeCanReallyAct: Whatever faults the film has, many critics have noted that this is the best acting they've seen from Johnson.

Appalled at this, John desperately offers to help the opportunistic District Attorney Joanne Keeghan (SusanSarandon) bring down criminals big enough to help his son. She's initially not open to it, but after John is nearly killed trying to do it anyway on the street on his own, she agrees to set him with the DEA for the case. On his end, John gets the unwitting help of a ex-con employee to introduce him to a local gang leader to get the bust ball rolling.

* WitnessProtection: After the case is finished, John's family has to go into hiding in that program and he's made it clear that he's going to have a difficult conversation with his second wife about that.

'Snitch'' is a 2013 CrimeDrama starring DwayneJohnson.