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Drive

Starring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Albert Brooks
 Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, R

In the high-octane noir Drive, Ryan Gosling plays a Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver and gets entangled in a crime plot that goes awry. So it's only fitting that the journey to make the film began in a car. With Gosling and Refn behind the wheel, the nature of the film changed. ''Drive was originally a $60 million action movie Hugh Jackman was going to make,'' says Refn. (The stripped-down thriller earned him the Best Director prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival.) ''It became a completely different movie out of this strange, mystical relationship between Ryan and me in that moment in the car'' after their first meeting. (Sept. 16) —Josh Rottenberg

To find out what happened in the car to forge that bond between Gosling and Refn, pick up this week's issue of Entertainment Weekly.

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