Though this falls on the low end of good, I found it compelling throughout. A London midwife tries to find out about a pregnant girl after she dies giving birth to a baby daughter. She finds the girl's purse with a diary in it, but she can't read Russian.
From Russian ancestry herself, she first asks her uncle to read the dead girl's diary. He gets angry and tells her the girl was a bad girl and he wont read the filth. She found a card for a Russian club inside the book. Her father used to visit the club regularly. While there, she catches the eye of the driver for the owner's son.
Charmed yet suspicious of the owner, she brings him a copy only of the diary. It turns out with good reason as the club owner heads the London arm of the Russian mafia. Though we know this, our heroine proceeds unaware.
Things get really complicated and the girl and driver flirt. When he's asked to kill her uncle for knowing about the diary, we wonder who he really is. He gets asked to be part of the mob's inner circle after the uncle comes up missing.
I'm not normally a fan of mafia films but the whole backstory drew me in. There are some violent bloody scenes that I just looked away. Too good to be merely watchable. Have a look for yourself and let me know what you think. Naomi Watts and Viggo Mortensen star as the midwife and driver.
Look in Bandon, Coos Bay, Lake Side and Myrtle Point for this DVD.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0765443/
Buy this interesting DVD from Amazon: Eastern Promises (Widescreen Edition)
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