![]() ![]() His instinct is to protect her even then because that’s what the Donovans do. She’s doing what she feels she has to do to save the family and in turn, Ray does the same claiming he killed his father. In the very last moments of the film, Ray’s daughter Bridget (Kerris Dorsey) kills Mickey in front of him. Kerris Dorsey and Liev Schreiber in 'Ray Donovan' on Showtime. If you haven’t seen it yet, you might want to stop reading now. At the very end of the film finale, Ray is finally able to forgive his father. This was one of the storylines that the fans had to get closure on. "So much of the energy of the family was driven by their relationship.” This was a family drama but as Schreiber points out, it was Ray’s relationship with his father, Mickey, that was at its core. We were successful and I just didn't understand it at first and it hurt." "I was upset because I felt like we hadn't been given a chance to complete our journey. In a recent interview, Schreiber discussed his feelings about that premature cancellation. Both serve as executive producers alongside Mark Gordon, Bryan Zuriff and Lou Fusaro. The film was co-written by Schreiber and series showrunner David Hollander, who is also the director. The issue was that the show wasn’t over and we needed to know what was going to happen next. We don’t know until the very end of the story whose blood Ray is wearing, but we’re not surprised when we finally find out.Ray Donovan: The Movie followed fan outrage after Showtime abruptly ended the series after its seventh season. In present day, Ray literally has blood on his hands as he confides via telephone to his therapist (the great Alan Alda) and is essentially in a confessional. (Faithful viewers of the series know it will be decades before Ray sees that monster again, but he WILL see him.) ![]() Michalka, as a young bartender.) In one of the most chilling scenes in the history of the series, Ray attends a funeral, after which the priest who abused Ray and his brothers tells him he’s being transferred to another church. ![]() (We also see Ray’s future wife Abby, played by A.J. Ray can never drink away his past, as we’re reminded in the Boston-set flashback sequences that continue to flesh out Ray’s childhood, with Chris Gray playing the young Ray and Bill Heck doing spectacularly electric work as Mickey, who was already entrenched as a charming, handsome, duplicitous and slick con man looking for an angle every day from the moment he woke up. (Ray’s son Conor hasn’t been seen since he shipped overseas with the Marines.) When Ray and his brothers share darkly funny war stories about their family over drinks shortly after Smitty is laid to rest, Bridget lashes out at them: I’m trying to figure out why … why is it so easy for you to forget? You just drink it all away as if someone’s life is just another bull- story to tell…īut that’s just it. Ray’s daughter Bridget (Kerris Dorsey) has been left a young widow after her husband Smitty (Graham Rogers) was collateral damage in yet another shootout involving the Donovans - and while Bridget has managed to retain her humanity through an unbelievably tumultuous childhood and adolescence, we’re beginning to wonder if she’ll be able escape the family’s generational history of violence and live anything resembling a normal life. (There’s a reason why the tagline for this movie is “You Can’t Outrun Your Legacy.”) “Ray Donovan: The Movie” picks up in the immediate aftermath of events from the Season 7 finale, with Ray’s father Mickey (Jon Voight) on the run with valuable documents belonging to the Donovans’ longtime rivals, the Sullivan clan, while Ray and his brothers Terry (Eddie Marsan), Bunchy (Dash Mihok) and Daryll (Pooch Hall) are dealing with the usual questions of fate and mortality and a haunted past from which they’ll never quite escape. (I’m not saying that happens to any major players I’m not saying it doesn’t.) Two years later, that sentence ends with an emphatic, bold-type exclamation point with “Ray Donovan: The Movie,” a feature-length finale giving closure to Liev Schreiber’s title character and the outstanding ensemble of supporting characters - even if that closure means you wind up in a box or bleeding out on the floor. “We were behaving creatively as though we were in mid-sentence.” “We had no indicator the show was ending,” showrunner David Hollander told Vulture. Showtime presents a film directed by David Hollander and written by Hollander and Liev Schreiber. ![]()
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