The Maker is a 1997 American drama film written by Rand Ravich

Rand Ravich

Rand Ravich is a film and television director, writer, and producer. He wrote and directed the 1999 science fiction thriller The Astronaut's Wife starring Johnny Depp and Charlize Theron, which was nominated for the Best Film category at the 1999 Catalonian International Film Festival...

 and directed by Tim Hunter

Tim Hunter (director)

Tim Hunter is an American television and film director. Since the late 1980s he has mostly worked on television, directing episodes for dozens of televisions series includingBreaking Bad,Carnivàle,...

. The Maker was released on October 17, 1997 in the United States of America and is rated R for strong violence, drug use, language and some sexuality.

Plot

Josh (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is a high school guy who lives with adoptive parents and is involved in little crimes with his friends, including young lesbian Bella (Fairuza Balk

Fairuza Balk

Fairuza Alejandra Balk is an American film actress. She made her theatrical film debut as Dorothy Gale in Disney's Return to Oz...

). Suddenly his elder brother Walter (Matthew Modine

Matthew Modine

Matthew Avery Modine is an award-winning American actor. His film roles include Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, the title character in Alan Parker's Birdy, high school wrestler Louden Swain in Vision Quest, football star turned spy Alec McCall in Funky Monkey and the...

) comes out of the blue after leaving home 10 years ago when he was 18 and not being heard of all those years. Walter starts to involve Josh in various new criminal activities, including robbery.

Cast

• Matthew Modine
  Matthew Modine
  Matthew Avery Modine is an award-winning American actor. His film roles include Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, the title character in Alan Parker's Birdy, high school wrestler Louden Swain in Vision Quest, football star turned spy Alec McCall in Funky Monkey and the...
  
   as Walter Schmeiss
• Mary-Louise Parker
  Mary-Louise Parker
  Mary-Louise Parker is an American actress, known for her current lead role on Showtime's television series Weeds portraying Nancy Botwin, for which she has received several nominations and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in 2006...
  
   as Officer Emily Peck
• Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Josh Minnell
• Fairuza Balk
  Fairuza Balk
  Fairuza Alejandra Balk is an American film actress. She made her theatrical film debut as Dorothy Gale in Disney's Return to Oz...
  
   as Bella Sotto
• Michael Madsen
  Michael Madsen
  Michael Søren Madsen is an American actor, poet, and photographer. He has appeared in more than 150 films, most of them small independent films, though he has starred in central roles in such films as Reservoir Dogs, Free Willy, Donnie Brasco, and Kill Bill, in addition to a supporting role in Sin...
  
  as Skarney