Russell Crowe and Karen Gillan movie Sleeping Dogs has released a first trailer.
The upcoming crime thriller sees retired homicide detective and Alzheimer's patient Roy Freeman (Crowe) re-opening the closed case of a murdered college professor.
"If we've put away the wrong guy, this is a chance for us to make it right," says Roy in the trailer.
Suspect Laura Baines (Gillan) later tells him: "You may not have memory, but you do have quite the imagination..."
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Lord of the Rings' Marton Csokas, Sons of Anarchy's Tommy Flanagan, and Supernatural's Elizabeth Blackmore also star.
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The film, which shot in Australia last year, is based on EO Chirovici's novel The Book of Mirrors and is directed by Adam Cooper.
The synopsis for the film reads: "In the wake of a cutting-edge Alzheimer’s treatment, former homicide detective Roy Freeman is tasked with re-examining a brutal murder case from his past – the grisly murder of a college professor (Csokas).
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"Intrigued and fighting to regain his memory, Roy enlists his former partner (Flanagan) to help him revive the investigation.
"This time though, things unfold very differently when they encounter a magnetic and mysterious woman (Gillan): as he uncovers a tangled web of contradictions and secrets, Roy is forced to face a horrific reality that changes his world forever in the blink of an eye."
Sleeping Dogs is due out in US cinemas on March 22, with a UK date still TBA.
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