King Ivory - Thriller on Society's Crossroads

From civilians to criminals to addicts to law enforcement, and everyone in between,  all walks of life intersect in this thriller about the epidemic that is fentanyl; street name: King Ivory.<br /><br /> It is business as usual for Tulsa drug cop, Layne West (James  Badge Dale), battling the local criminal element, which hits too close to home when his son, Jack (Jasper Jones), gets hooked on fentanyl.  In conjunction with his partner,  Ty (George Carroll), and FBI counterpart, Beatty (Rory Cochrane), West makes it his mission in life to take down those responsible, including the Mexican cartel’s local shot-caller, Ramón Garza (Michael Mando), Indian Brotherhood War Chief, Holt Lightfeather (Graham Greene), who controls state-wide trafficking while serving life inside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester a.k.a. “Big Mac,” and the local  Irish Mob family outfit, led by George “Smiley” Greene (Ben Foster), along with his mother, Ginger (Melissa Leo), and uncle, Mickey (Ritchie Coster).  As Holt educates West during a prison visit, “The cartels want your kids, the next generation, who want what is new, and fentanyl is new.”<br /><br />Directed by award-winning filmmaker John Swab, the film stars James Badge Dale, Ben Foster, Michael Mando, Rory Cochrane, Ritchie Coster, George Carroll with Graham Green, Melissa Leo, and Sam Quartin.