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Two Colorado state troopers and Sen. Randy Baumgardner teamed up this morning to bring a smile to a homeless man whose shoes had been stolen in the middle of the night.
The troopers every morning wake up the homeless who sleep near the grates at the education building just north of the state Capitol across Colfax Avenue. Technician Kent Zeller and Trooper Carin Lawrence saw a man without any shoes on in the freezing weather.
"He said, 'I took them off last night to warm them on the grate and someone must have taken them," Lawrence said.
Lawrence returned to the Capitol to search the lost-and-found box and ask if anyone had an extra pair of shoes. No luck. She approached a table in the basement cafeteria where Baumgardner, a Republican from Hot Sulphur Springs, meets early every morning with a group of lobbyists from agriculture and other industries. They told her they didn't have any shoes.
"Then I thought, 'Wait a minute,'" Baumgardner said. "I asked what size does the guy wear and she said about a 10 or an 11."
He walked her out to his car in the Capitol parking lot, opened up a duffel bag and pulled out a size 11 beat up pair of tennis shoes that Baumgardner wears every morning for his 5 a.m. workout. They still had the socks in them from this morning's gym visit.
"I said, 'They're not the best, but here,'" Baumgardner said. "I guess I gave him the shoes off my feet — kind of."
Zeller and Lawrence said the homeless man didn't care that the socks and shoes were used.
"He had a smile from ear to ear," Lawrence said. "He was so appreciative."


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When you plug in a usb printer into a computer running Windows 2000, 2003 or XP the "plug and pray" subsystem loads and attaches the usbprint.sys bus driver to it, in essence taking over the device.
So its Thursday morning at work and I decide that since the Mac OS X version of our software can print directly to USB printers bypassing the operating system, its about time we added that functionality to the Linux and Windows versions.
A quick scan through the /usr/src/linux/drivers/usb/devio.c source file reveals all about the usbdevfs file system and the ioctls required. Browse through the USB spec, a few calls to open() and ioctl(), and urb here, an urb there and I'm all done. Piece of cake.
Shudder… Past experiences with Windows and anything to do with low level access to devices has taught me that I am in for the long haul. Each time I try to do something like this it always take 3 – 4 days or excruciating effort and unbearable pain. Oh well, I strap myself to my trusty Aeron chair and away I go.
Now from the MSDN documentation I manage to surmise that as soon as a USB printer is plugged in, the "plug and pray" subsystem loads up the usbprint.sys device driver and passes control over to it. In turn usbprint.sys creates a device node, initialises it and then sets up a device interface so user space programs can access it using the usual device semantics.
Great I think. I'll just call CreateFile() to open the device and then use WriteFile() to send data to it. Couldn't be easier. "clickety clack", the code just flies from my fingers. CreateFile(name….). hmm.. what's the name of the device. If it was Linux it would be /dev/usblp0 or something like that. Now what is it for Windows. A scan through the MSDN documentation reveals nothing. A search of google produces lots of hits to people asking the same question, but no answers. "Oh, oh this is going to be bad I think". If there are no answers out there it means it is a closely guarded Microsoft secret and I am going to have to do some deep digging myself.
A more methodical scan of the MSDN docs and Google at least hints to what calls I need to make. In essence you do the following.
Call SetupDiGetClassDevs(interface_guid, 0, 0, DIGCF_PRESENT | DIGCF_DEVICEINTERFACE) to get a list of devices.
Call SetupDiEnumDeviceInterfaces() to get a list of available device interfaces.
Call SetupDiGetDeviceInterfaceDetail() to fetch information for the actual device interface we are going to use.
Use the DevicePath member of the PSP_DEVICE_INTERFACE_DETAIL_DATA structure returned by the SetupDiGetDeviceInterfaceDetail() call as the devicename/filename in the CreateFile() call.
Call WriteFile() repeatedly to send data to the device.
So in order to be able to find the name of the device, I need to find the GUID of the interface that usbprint.sys creates when it adds the devicenode to the system. Search… search… search… nothing. Search some more, nothing. Look through the Windows SDK and DDK include files with grep. Still nothing. Oh well up comes trusty old regedit, everything windows does is in the registry, and I start to wade through the myriad of nodes and entries for the GUID. After a few hours of despair I find it. The magic number is 0x28d78fad, 0x5a12, 0x11D1, 0xae, 0x5b, 0x00, 0x00, 0xf8, 0x03, 0xa8, 0xc2. You'd think Microsoft would have included it in one of the .h files (devguid.h or usbprint.h) just like they did the interface GUID for keyboards, mice, hid usb devices, usbcam devices etc. etc. etc.
The WriteFile call fails and GetLastError() returns 1, ie. the operation is not supported.
More searching, reading, nothing turns up. It keeps failing. I remember that the DDK includes source code for the local portmonitor so I take a look to see how it calls CreateFile for the local port interface. I modify mine to be the same and try again.
Success, the printer starts outputting my job. What is different above? Well replacing OPEN_EXISTING with OPEN_ALWAYS seems to have forced the driver to start the device so that the WriteFile interface is available. Previously OPEN_EXISTING would not try and create a file so the device would not start. At least that is what I think.
4 days later and I am all done.
So here is a quick snippet of some of my code to help others out there that might have the same problem. You will need both the windows SDK and DDK installed and configured correctly for this code to compile. You will also need to link your executable with the setupapi library.
Below I have included the code as both an attachment and inline. It is not meant to compile out of the box. It is only there as a guide.
/* Now perform all the writing to the device ie.
Thanks so much. This was so obscure and hard to find. I spent 3 days and almost got to the point of writing my own driver until I found the device class ID here and found the device path. It should have been that easy. Maybe MS will learn and at least publish this at some point.
While debugging,its not entering into the while loop .Is the function will return true only when the devide is attached? Why i'm asking this is,becoz i have not connected my printer to the USB port.Kindly suggest some answer.If printer device is not attached, kindly tell me how to simulate the condition?? Pls. help.
SetupDiEnumDeviceInterfaces() will only find usbprinter device nodes when a printer is attached. There is no way to simulate that, you simply have to attach a printer. There is no getting around that.
Thanks for giving code.By following you , my writefile function is returning true with Byte to write is equal to Byte written (these are two variables,which i'm checking after write file API).But i'm not able to print.The same string i'm able to print through command prompt.it means that the command that has to sent to the printer is correct,but why its not printing ?.Kindly note that my Zebra barcode printer driver is installed and ok.
I found the ClassGUID is this the required GUID I need?
Can I just eNumerate and use the Symbolic address and just write to the port with the required data.
I am new to this so any help would be great.
Trying to use the USB to Parallel as a data port.
any sample doin this in C#/vb .net ?
Peter, thanks so much for posting this code here. I stumbled across it after googling for 3 days to try and find some way to read and write raw data to a usb printer in C#. I can't post the code on here because my client would lose their freakin' mind if they ever found out I did but I will tell anyone wanting to get it working in .NET to go here . There is some sample C# code and all the structure and constant definitions that are not included here (you have to look for them but they are on that site.) It took me an additional 2 days after finding this page to get it working but most of that time was due to bone headed mistakes on my part.
Thanks again for this invaluable resource!
Great work Peter and others.
In case it helps anyone, here's my VB6 conversion.
(Not elegant yet, but appears to work).
You can find it as part of the WDK (windows driver development kit).
I really sorry if my english is bad…..i am spanish speaker…..
I am programming a Printer monitoring tool for HP USB Deskjets in .Net.
I could use SetupDiGetClassDevs(..), SetupDiEnumDeviceInterfaces(..) etc. to obtain the Symbolic Name of the devices which are connected to the PC, but i am not yet successful in obtaining the Friendly name from the Symbolic name. The friendly names are the names which are displayed in "Printers and Faxes".
I would be very glad and thankful if someone could help me by pointing the correct method or steps to follow if possible with a snippet.
I'm not using the LPT to use a printer the software that i use is to control an osciloscope and it needs to have an address like 278, 378 or 3BC to run ok.
I just can't return in WriteFile(), it's blocked.
I can get \\?\USB name use peter's GUID and SetupDi functions,no error with CreateFile() ,but when I call Deviceiocontrol() or WriteFile() it's blocked and no return. I don't attach a printer , I just plug in the USB to Parallel cable, is it necessary to attach a printer with the cable for all things work ?
I wonder how hard it'd be to make a driver that provided the normal parallel port interface to one of these "Parallel Printer Cable"s.
With the "USB to (not really) Parallel Port Cable" I bought for electronics projects, I got WriteFile to return by grounding the BUSY pin (see wikipedia or any number of other sites for pin definitions) and pulsing the ACK pin. Somebody suggested just grounding ACK, but that only worked for a single byte – I'm guessing the circuit in my cable checks both edges of the ACK signal.
Another site suggested connecting ACK to STROBE, and that seems to work OK for a few bytes, but then I guess the in-cable microcontroller misses the ACK, because it'll stop sending after a few bytes. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm thinking that connecting STROBE to the input of a monostable multivibrator and the output of that to ACK will fix the problem by extending the pulse duration (unless I'm completely wrong and that isn't the problem).
Hi, i´m tring tio traslate this code(Old Duster says: January 20, 2010 at 2:10 pm) to Visual Studio 2010 (Visual Basic) but i ´don´t have the same solution that Visual Basic 6.0, can you help me??
Thank´s a lot for your codes, I´ve tried vb6 code but when I send anything, the printer prints a page with several ASCII codes instead of real text, I´ve tried sending strings and PJL commans, could you help me, please?
Iam trying to simulate USB printer device using microsoft's device simulation framework. When a real USB printer is pluged, two device nodes appear in windows device manager 1. USB Printing support under host controllers(USB enumarator). 2. another node with USBPRINT enumarator as explained in the following link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff560809(v=vs.85).aspx But when the simulated device pluged in only USB printing support is created. the simualted device sends the response for GET_DEVICE_ID request by sending IEEE 1284 device ID. the string is sent as unsigned char, first two bytes gives the length and rest of the string is MFG,CMD,MDL,CLS,status values. But still the second node in the device manager is not created. any other way to invoke the host to create another node?
I'm trying to port a Windows code that uses usbprint to linux and mac, and I need the linux/mac replacements for IOCTL_USBPRINT_VENDOR_SET_COMMAND and IOCTL_USBPRINT_VENDOR_GET_COMMAND windows ioctl's. Any idea?
You cannot use this code for Linux or Mac. Those systems have totally different APIs so you will have to write code from scratch. The USB API for those platforms is very well documented so you should have no problem writing code to achieve the same thing on those platforms.
Hi I am new in windows driver programing but I am trying to do using java but I failed.So I try to do usb printing using some native code and marge it with my java application, but till now i did not how can I connect this code in java.I load WSDK and WDDK but how can I compile this code can anyone give me some idea.Please give me some positive reply.
how this code will be compiled from netbeans I presently use ming to compile c code but I can not compile this code though I put all header file into MinGW\lib\gcc\mingw32\4.4.1\include\c++.
Thanks Peter for publishing this. You saved me a lot of time!
Thanks! I'm working on a little program to remind me (or my kids!) that they left the printer turned on, so this is just what I need — if the usbHandle is valid, then a printer is on!
and it would be much closer to compiling as is. I had to tweak a couple other lines because I work in Unicode.
Thanks Geoffrey for the comment on missing variable declarations and include file. I've updated the code so that it should compile out of the box.


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Sears catalog 'kit homes' from the early 1900s still exist today — and some are selling for millions of dollars
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Perhaps the biggest story to hit the retail industry in 2018 was the news that Sears Holding, a 125-year-old retailer, once the nation's largest, filed for bankruptcy protection in October.
As shoppers say goodbye to Sears, and the younger generation forgets them all together, one product might be responsible for carrying on Sears' legacy for many years to come — 1900s Sears catalog "kit homes" that are now selling for millions of dollars all across the United States.
To understand what a kit home is, you first have to imagine the days before home-browsing websites like Zillow or Realtor.com. In the early 1900s some people bought homes through a printed catalog from Sears (known then as Sears, Roebuck, and Company). Shoppers could look at all different styles of homes for sale, and then, when they were ready to buy one, they could fill out an order form and send it through the mail.
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What would happen next was quite unique. They were sent a 'kit home' that would arrive with over 10,000 high-quality materials and pieces, sort of like an item from Ikea, but these homes required more tools, time, and skill. The homes had to be put together from complete scratch. The pieces included precut lumber, nails, paint, fitted windows, doors, a building plan and more.
From around 1908 to the 1940s, Sears sold an estimated 70,000 kit homes in about 270 different styles, ranging from Colonial to Tudor, and even small bungalows. Prices ranged from about $600 to $6,000, which translates to be around $8,400 to $84,000 in today's money. This allowed hundreds of thousands of Americans to become homeowners, through the Great Depression and even at the start of World War II.
Today, nobody knows for sure how many of these homes remain, but the ones that are still standing are hot commodities in the real estate market. Take for example a 1925 Colonial-style kit home in Washington, D.C., that sold in 2017 for $1.06 million, which was sold in the Sears' catalog for $3,727 in the 1920s.
What makes these homes sell for big bucks today? Not only is their quality unbeatable but they have become known as historic homes in the neighborhoods that they are in.
In Washington, a good amount of these 100-year-old kit homes are still in perfect condition. Catarina Bannier, a real estate agent and kit home expert in Northwest D.C, documents local D.C. kit homes on the website DCHouseSmarts and is currently working on a project with Historic Chevy Chase D.C. to uncover all of the neighborhood's kit houses and make the information accessible to the public.
The next generation of kit homes
The "home in a box" trend isn't something that's growing extinct, it's very much alive thanks to the modern-day Sears rival, Amazon.
Last fall, Amazon started selling shipping container homes online for around $36,000. Allwood Industrials began selling its kit homes on Amazon in 2015, and sales have tripled over the past few years. Tapani Pekkala, the owner of Allwood Industrials, told Realtor.com that he expected to sell 3,000 kit homes this year.
Pekkala said that customers started buying these kit homes for their vacation homes but since home prices have risen, many would-be homeowners are buying residences they can build themselves.
"The cabin kits are designed for people who have never, ever built anything… some people say it's like building a Lego house," Pekkala says. "But when you go past 250 square feet and add that second floor, you probably want that professional crew."
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Toby Keith and Randy Houser look like tough guys, but if you dig far enough into their new albums, you'll find a softer side. Keith's "In a Couple of Days" gently describes an unexpected breakup, while Houser's "Here With Me" offers a romantic perspective from a lonely man. Meanwhile, Tony Joe White delivers his signature groove on "Season Man" from his latest album, Shine, and the Doobie Brothers shine on "A Brighter Day." I've also added a dozen highlights from a tall stack of new indie albums, so perhaps this playlist can help you unearth some new, roots-oriented music.
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Many commentators in the US see surveillance like the NSA's alleged tapping of Chancellor Merkel's phone as a necessary fact of life. The White House is trying to limit the damage -- but the snooping will go on.
Barack Obama with Angela Merkel during his visit to Berlin in June 2013.
Jon Stewart knows how to twist the knife. "So you guys are all upset we're spying on you," America's most popular TV satirist told an imaginary European audience. "But I just have one question: Have you met us? Meddling in your affairs for our national self-interest is kind of our thing."
That's no joke -- especially not this week when the tremors of the alleged US surveillance of Chancellor Angela Merkel will finally reach Washington. A German intelligence service delegation is traveling to the US capital to find answers to the array of question this scandal has thrown up.
The main ones are: What did President Barack Obama know? How can the crisis of confidence in the trans-Atlantic alliance be repaired? And what will really change in the end?
That last question can already be answered: not a lot. Over the weekend, senior members of Congress strongly defended the NSA's actions and dismissed the White House's efforts at appeasement as nothing more than superficial politeness.
Take Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, which on Tuesday plans to discuss the NSA and, probably, SPIEGEL's latest revelations. The Republican from Michigan left little doubt of how little he thinks of radical change. Mutual surveillance, he told CNN, served the "legitimate protection of nation-state interest."
Peter King, chairman of the House subcommittee on counter-terrorism and intelligence, said "the president should stop apologizing, stop being defensive." The New York Republican added that the NSA had "saved thousands of lives, not just in the United States but also in France and Germany and throughout Europe." And Germany, he continued, was a legitimate target for espionage, anyways, partly because "that's where the Hamburg plot began, which led to 9/11."
The NSA itself predictably showed the least contrition. "Would I stop doing any of that?" outgoing NSA chief Keith Alexander said in an interview with a Department of Defense blog. "Well, there's policy decisions that policymakers can do, but nobody would ever want us to stop protecting this country against terrorists, against adversary states, against cyber."
It's an attitide that newspaper editorialists shared. "Allies aren't always friends," wrote Stewart Baker in the New York Times. Steward was the assistant secretary for policy at the US Department of Homeland Security under George W. Bush, who was president when the NSA began tapping Merkel's phone back in 2002, according to information obtained by SPIEGEL. Without spying, the US wouldn't be able to carry out ts role in the world, he said. "That's just life and international politics. As German Chancellor Angela Merkel too knows quite well."
Such opinions are drowning out critical voices from people such as Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen, of New Hampshire. On Sunday, she told CBS that recent revelations had inflicted "significant damage" to our bilateral relations with overseas allies, adding that Americans have "repair work to do."
"And I think we have hard questions we need to ask of the NSA about what's really going on in this program," she said.
When Did Obama Know What?
There is also confusion about what and when Obama knew about the operation against Merkel. On Sunday, the NSA said in a statement that Alexander "did not discuss with President Obama in 2010 an alleged foreign intelligence operation involving German Chancellor Merkel, nor has he ever discussed alleged operations involving Chancellor Merkel. News reports claiming otherwise are not true."
The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday evening that the NSA had stopped monitoring Merkel's phone after an "internal Obama administration review started this summer revealed to the White House the existence of the operation."
According to the newspaper, officials said the internal review turned up NSA monitoring of some 35 world leaders. The White House cut off some monitoring programs after learning of them, including the one tracking Merkel and some other world leaders, the paper said, citing information provided by a senior U.S. official. Other programs have been slated for termination but have yet to be phased out completely, officials told the paper.
In the summer, Obama announced two NSA reviews, an internal and an external one. But that was just a reaction to the monitoring of US citizens. SPIEGEL's revelations give these reviews new relevance.
Did the NSA Decide on Its Own?
Even if Obama didn't know, it wouldn't look good. A government leader who doesn't know what his intelligence agencies are up to looks weak. "These decisions are made at NSA," the government official told the Wall Street Journal. "The president doesn't sign off on this stuff," the official added, noting that the protocol was under review.
Even former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton doesn't appear to have been informed about the spying. In a a speech at Colgate University in New York last Friday, she called for a "full, comprehensive discussion" but added that the revelations were "in bits and pieces" that weren't "in context."
The White House remains tight-lipped. It confirmed that there are some ongoing internal investigations regarding intelligence surveillance operations in allied countries, but it didn't go into detail. Obama remained silent and spent his Sunday with a visit to church and a four-hour golf game.
The Germans, the French and most countries spy electronically. Merkel is simply using the issue as a political ploy when she is trying to form a government.
The only reason what so ever to listen to Chancellor Merkel's phone calls...financial. Surprise Germany! Your tax payers just floated George Soros a few billion after he magically knew when to pick up Greek bonds prior to the public announcements that there would be a bailout . Don't feel too bad, he's helped wreck our economy in name of profits and socialism. But it is hilarious that he gets his info from the "insiders". Yea those on the inside of Chancellor Merkel's cell phone.
Anyone who thinks the USA's allies aren't spying on the USA is pretty naive.
While I understand the need and reality of some spying I find myself embarrassed being an American right now. Our paranoia has taken over and reasonable minds seem to be missing. Every day I find myself asking,"Have we found ANYTHING that indicates this is a necessary evil?" If we have it has certainly not been mentioned and the U.S. media is notorious for trumpeting successes of this nature.


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Q: does distinct work with GAE Python SDK - 1.9.4 release Code:
pages = Line.gql("where projectNAME='%s'"%(projectName)).run(projection=["projectNAME","pageno"],distinct=True)

This show the following error,
TypeError: Unknown configuration option ('distinct')

Why so?

A: It looks like the documentation for run may be incorrect. It isn't possible to provide the distinct option there. Instead, try specifying what you want inside the GQL string:
pages = db.GqlQuery('SELECT DISTINCT pageno FROM Line WHERE projectNAME=:1', projectName).run()

Note that here the only projection specified is pageno. It is not possible to specify a projection that is used in an equality (note you know what the projectNAME is already because you specified it).

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Raising the Roof's "Coming Soon" campaign anticipated the audience's reaction to a faux billboard and baked it into a campaign video.
The organization, which promotes long-term solutions to homelessness, and Leo Burnett Toronto took dead aim at the NIMBYs – those who respond to development projects with "Not In My Back Yard" – by erecting a plywood façade in Toronto's Leaside neighbourhood with a sign indicating that a homeless shelter was coming soon, complete with a phone number, email address and URL for those with questions or concerns.
But the idea of a shelter was a red herring. Raising the Roof later replaced its "Coming Soon" sign with one that read, "You told us you don't want a shelter here. Neither do we," before appealing for long-term solutions to homelessness.
It may have been manipulative, even ugly – the residents of Leaside no doubt felt singled out for what is a pervasive attitude – but it worked, garnering international media coverage and forcing affordable housing onto the political agenda in the waning days of the Oct. 19, 2015 federal election. Donations to Raising the Roof went through the roof, up 506% from the previous year and its video has been viewed 52,000 times.
The Nike and Leon's campaigns, by Lg2 and Taxi, respectively, were less severe but just as clever, also playing off their surroundings. To help introduce itself to a relatively new market, Leon's demonstrated its understanding of Quebec by embracing Moving Day, the July 1 phenomenon that sees thousands move homes every year on the same day. As the abandoned furniture piled up on sidewalks – much of it in fine condition but deemed unworthy by its owners – Leon's saw an opportunity to highlight the quality of its own products.
The campaign, built around the idea of "move-worthy furniture," turned discarded items into coupons for Leon's. The brand created life-sized frames that mimicked coupons and placed them around the sofas and mattresses that had been kicked to the curb. Passersby could take photos that became coupons when presented in store.
Like the Raising the Roof campaign, Leon's purpose was built into the execution: not only did it generate buzz – with people sharing the photo-coupons on social media – and drive traffic to the store, but it also got people thinking more critically about waste and acquiring durable furniture. The "#GetMoveWorthy" execution garnered more than one million earned media impressions, leading to a 15.8% increase in store traffic and a 34.7% increase in sales.
Nike's "#BetterForIt" campaign also incorporated its setting, with a billboard on a Toronto apartment building. In the apartment adjacent to the billboard, Nike and Lg2 built a robot mannequin, decked out in Nike gear, doing chin-ups in the window. The message – "Your only competition is you. And also other people like her"– was meant to ignite female athletes' competitive drive. The execution earned six million impressions and coverage in national and international media.


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You are going to hear a lot about this, so I may as well begin with it: There's a fight scene in David Cronenberg's Russian mob thriller "Eastern Promises" that is sure to go down as a raw, brutal and pulse-pounding landmark in the history of fight scenes. It takes place in one room, with no props except for a couple knives. People in the audience at the Toronto screening I attended were flinching and gasping as if they were being punched in the face. Which, of course, is the idea. If a fight scene doesn't make you feel like you're part of it, so that it quickens your heartbeat and your breathing, then it's a failure. And Cronenberg's makes you realize how many movie fights are flops -- and how really hard it is to kill or immobilize a human being with your arms, legs, feet and hands.
Literally and figuratively, "Eastern Promises" has balls.
And in this sense, it reminds me of both the excruciatingly protracted struggle between Paul Newman and the Russian agent in "Torn Curtain," and the knock-down, drag-out fist-fest between Keith David and Rowdy Roddy Piper in John Carpenter's "They Live!
Lamppost-spined Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts.
It begins like a Cronenbergian horror movie, and becomes... a Cronenberg gangster movie -- an elemental struggle between good and evil, life and death, east and west, blood and money, trust and betrayal, commerce and morality, mind and body. Remember, that's "elemental," not "simplistic." There are... complications.
More when the movie opens.
NOTE: Watts' proud, abrasive, vodka-swilling Russian uncle is played by the great Polish director, Jerzy Skolimowski ("Deep End," "The Shout," "Moonlighting").
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