In the early 1990s Gordon dropped out of college in Toronto to model for clothing catalogs, loving the pay but hating the process.

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It tells a reliable story: Chris Farraday (Wahlberg), once the most adept smuggler in the world, bursts out of retirement in order to pay off a debt incurred by the stupid kid brother (Caleb Landry Jones) of his loving wife (Kate Beckinsale).

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