The Place Beyond the Pines

A rebellious, mysterious, and womanizing circus performer, Luke (Ryan Gosling), learns that he has fathered a child with his former lover, Romina (Eva Mendes). He immediately decides to change his life and take responsibility for fatherhood. The problem is that raising a child requires income he doesn't have at the moment, so he teams up with another man to start robbing banks to make quick, easy money, using his skills as a motorcycle rider to pull it off. His criminal career is complicated by a young, inexperienced, and ambitious police officer, Avery Cross (Bradley Cooper), who starts following his trail. Cross works in a department run by a corrupt detective