title: Just Business
text: # Just Business
  
  Just Business is a 2008 Canadian thriller film directed by Jonathan Dueck and starring Gina Gershon, Jonathan Watton, Earl Pastko, and Zachary Bennett. The movie was released on DVD on May 6, 2008.
  
  ## Plot
  
  Elizar Perla is a retired art thief intent on committing his last crime. He targets David Gray, a famous art and rarities collector. Once the job is done, he disappears. Then the story focuses on the aftermath of the crime as the wealthy collector is desperate to get one particular painting back. Perla's daughter, lawyer Marty, agrees to track the missing artwork as her father is the main suspect (hence the name of the film).
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Gina Gershon as Marty Jameson
  * Jonathan Watton as David Gray
  * Earl Pastko as Eli Perla
  * Zachary Bennett as David Snow
  * John Robinson as Tom Esposito
  * Anthony J. Mifsud as Tony Bloom
  
  ## Reception
  
     Confused, poorly acted and with the production values of a high-school media studies project, Just Business is a film with no redeeming features. In fact, even calling it a "film" is a stretch. The fact that someone, somewhere, has had the poor sense to release it to the public is far more puzzling than anything happening in this so called mystery story. From its muddled plot, a modern-day American crime thriller, based loosely on Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, to acting of epically poor proportions, it is not even so bad it's good.
  
  —Oliver Good, The National
  
  