The Company You Keep

You've got to hand it to 76-year-old Robert Redford. He's still a pretty handsome dude and a wonderful actor and director. A screen idol in his younger days in films such as Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid and The Way We Were, here Redford takes on the role of lawyer and devoted father who has an explosive past that threatens to catch up with him.

In the film adapted from Neil Gordon's novel, The Company You Keep has an impressive cast of similarly weathered but brilliant actors as well as young stars Anna Kendrick, and Shia LaBeouf as journalist Ben Shepard. The early scenes show us old footage of an organisation called the Weather Underground, which really existed to protest US involvement in the Vietnam War. Cut to the present day and Sharon Salarz (Susan Sarandon) is arrested for her part in a bank security guard's death decades earlier when she was in the Weather Underground.

It doesn't take long for Ben to work out that Redford's character, Jim Grant, also has a link, and before you know it, Jim is on the run. But is he merely running from the justice that's about to catch up with him or is there more to it?

It's an intelligent film with a stellar cast, including Julie Christie, Nick Nolte, Chris Cooper and many more great names.

In cinemas Thursday 14 April