Peter\'s Price Peter Price (Christopher Mur) works in a bank and he comes across as exactly the sort of person you would expect to find working as an assistant manager for an unexceptional bank. Until he gets mugged.

As he’s trying to talk his way out of a dangerous situation, realisation dawns on Peter that he knows the mugger. The mugger, it turns out, is Jake Mahoney (James Aidan McCaffrey), who was Peter’s partner in crime when he was young and reckless.

The pair lost touch years ago and their lives have taken very different paths. Peter straightened out, got a job and started climbing the corporate ladder, while Jake has trapped himself in a cycle of petty crime and prison. Much of the rest of the film is taken up with the conversation between the men as they compare their lives so far.

This is very much a dialogue driven film, and not only is the dialogue excellent but both Christopher Mur and James Aidan McCaffrey do a superb job of bringing it to life. Both characters are very well drawn and, as the conversation progresses, you do get a real sense of who they are and how they ended up where they are.

Writer/director, Mitchell L. Cohen does a great job here of cramming a lot of backstory into a short space of time and then allowing it to flow naturally. Nothing feels forced but, by the end of the conversation, it is easy to believe that these two – superficially – very different men were once very close friends.

Peter’s Price is an understated, well shot and very entertaining film that explores what it means to be successful and to what extent we are defined by our backgrounds. Cohen certainly knows how to keep an audience engaged and interested, and how to pull of a twist ending that fits perfectly what has gone before.