Everybody carries a secret area of vulnerability; that fracture that they hide from the world. Even a stone cold killer has one. In Fracture, lawyer Ryan Gosling has to discover the one crack that Anthony Hopkins can't seal.

Fracture Credit: New Line Cinema

Ted Crawford (Hopkins) is a rich structural engineer who hires out to the FAA to find the tiny cracks that may have caused plane crashes. When he learns that his pretty younger wife Jennifer is having an affair, he plans the perfect murder and carries it out. But (big twist) The LAPD hostage negotiator (Billy Burke) who comes to Crawford's house to talk him down is freaked to see that dead wife Jennifer is the nameless woman he has been hooking up with!

Fracture Credit: New Line Cinema

Hotshot young prosecutor Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling) has a 97 percent conviction rate and is up for a move to a posh corporate firm. This last case before the move seems a slam dunk until Willy learns of the cop/wife connection and sees that he lacks evidence to convict. A game of cat and mouse begins between clever Crawford and the cocky young prosecutor.