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Baby Driver - in which a young punk with great taste in music tries to get out of the criminal racket, and meets a nice girl to do it for. Baby is a getaway driver to Kevin Spacey's rotating crew, and he works with the hottest version of Jon Hamm I have ever seen. Baby is a good guy, and is working off a debt, and he means to quit when his debt to Spacey is repaid. He has a nice, deaf foster father he still lives with, and he is always listening to music to combat his trauma-induced tinnitus. He is also always recording stuff and he makes dope mixes that sound like J Dilla, DeeJay.
    So, the conflict is that Spacey wants Baby to keep working for him, so after Baby meets a nice waitress to fall in love with, Spacey can blackmail him into driving. Baby doesn't want to drive with Jaime Foxx because he's a crazy fuck, but he has to. Jon Hamm is very nice to Baby, him and his girlfriend defend Baby's quiet manner. Okay, there are a bunch of car chases that are super cool, and the music lines up with everything. But, then Jaime Foxx comes back for another job and acts like a crazy fuck and Baby tries to stop him from killing strangers and his secret girlfriend. Foxx goes to Baby's place and fucks up his tape collection and hurts his foster-dad. Baby takes his dad to a retirement home with a sweet note pinned to his robe before he books it to get his curly-haired girlfriend with the bag of money from the last job that went horribly. They were gonna hold up a post office, but Baby tips off this nice lady works there by shaking his head at her - its all very subtle, but the job gets fucked up and Foxx is killing a ton of people in the meantime. The sassy girlfriend of Hamm gets shot by the cops while they are in a fucked up getaway, and then Hamm tracks Baby to the diner where his waitress works, and gets shot, but doesn't die right away, so he shoots some cops so Baby can get away, or maybe because he hates cops. Kevin Spacey also wants Baby to get away with his lady, its pretty sweet, so there are some car fights, but they get the cash and almost get away, but the cops aren't that dumb, so Baby has to do a couple years for his involvement. The waitress promises to wait for him, and I believe her.

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