Read more about Riley North at: Wikipedia Official Site: STX Entertainment Peppermint is a 2018 American vigilante action thriller film directed by Pierre Morel and starring Jennifer Garner. Also featuring John Ortiz, John Gallagher Jr., Juan Pablo Raba, and Tyson Ritter, the plot follows a mother who transforms herself into a vigilante in a quest for revenge against the drug cartel that killed her husband and daughter. The film was released in the United States on September 7, 2018. It grossed over $53 million worldwide and received generally negative reviews from critics, although Garner's performance was praised. Riley North is a wife and mother working as a banker in Los Angeles, struggling to make ends meet with her husband Chris, the owner of a failing mechanic shop. They have a ten-year-old daughter, Carly. A friend of Chris' asks him to take part in a robbery involving Diego Garcia, head of a powerful drug-trafficking syndicate. Chris turns him down, but Garcia has already discovered his involvement and orders his men to make an example of him. Riley and Chris take Carly out to a carnival for her birthday, since no one showed up to her party after Riley offended an influential but stuck-up suburban mother named Peg. As the family walks to their car, Diego's triggermen gun them down in a drive-by shooting. Carly and Chris are killed, and while Riley is badly wounded, she survives. Despite her injuries, Riley is able to positively identify the shooters. A senior LAPD detective, Beltran, warns his younger partner Carmichael about a previous detective who was murdered after trying to make a case against Diego, and warns him to "let what's going to happen happen." Prior to the preliminary hearing, Riley is visited by Henderson, a cartel lawyer. When Riley refuses to take the bribe, he offers her, he uses her anti-psychotic medication to portray her as unhinged and unreliable in court. Stevens, a crooked judge overseeing the case, declares there is insufficient evidence to allow the perpetrators to stand trial and dismisses the case, to which the prosecutor, Goldman, does nothing in response. Outraged, Riley tries to attack her family's killers, but is subdued and loaded into an ambulance to be taken to a psychiatric ward. Before the ambulance can leave, she fights her way out and escapes. Five years later, Beltran and Carmichael arrive at the carnival and find the men who killed Riley's family hanging from a Ferris wheel, victims of an unidentified vigilante. The killings attract the attention of FBI Agent Lisa Inman, who informs the detectives that before vanishing five years earlier, Riley robbed the bank where she previously worked. She used the money to create false identities and travel to Europe, studying combat and military tactics before returning home and stealing high-powered firearms from a gun shop. Meanwhile, Riley murders Goldman by drowning him in his own pool, burns Henderson alive, and kills the now-retired Stevens by wrapping a length of explosive cord around him and detonating it. Inman, Carmichael, and Beltran decide to tell the media about Riley, triggering a debate on social media between those who see her as a hero and those who see her as a criminal. Elsewhere, Diego comes under pressure from his partners over Riley destroying several valuable shipments of drugs.
Riley North has not been a contender in any CBUB matches.
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