Scott Bloom

Smokin' Aces -- Slick Las Vegas illusionist Buddy 'Aces' Israel isn't playing nice. Turns out, he's telling mob secrets to the FBI.

Slick Las Vegas illusionist Buddy "Aces" Israel isn't playing nice. Turns out, he's telling mob secrets to the FBI. After a $1 million contract is put out on him, Aces tries to pull his greatest disappearing act before a rogues' gallery of ex-cons, hit men and smokin' hot assassins tries to rub him out in this edgy action comedy that takes no prisoners.

After snitching mob secrets to the FBI, a $1 million contract is put out on Buddy "Aces" Israel. Now, everybody wants him dead in the edgy, dark action comedy.

Denzel Washington stars as John Q. Archibald, an ordinary man who works at a factory and takes care of his family. But when John Q.'s young son needs an emergency heart transplant - an operation that he can't afford - John Q. will do anything to keep his son alive. As time and options run out, a desperate gamble becomes the only hope for John Q, as he takes an unwitting group of people hostage in the hospital emergency room.