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Dwayne Johnson takes on a ruthless drug cartel in the gritty action-thriller Snitch, and we have a first look at the hard-driving trailer!

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Based on a true story, Snitch finds Johnson as a concerned father faced with a dramatic choice after his teenage son is wrongly accused of a drug distribution crime. With his boy facing a minimum prison sentence of 10 years, the desperate and determined Johnson makes a deal with the U.S. attorney to work as an undercover informant and infiltrate a dangerous drug cartel (whose key player is played by Benjamin Bratt). Willing to risk everything to free his son, can Johnson make it out alive?

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Also starring Susan Sarandon and Barry Pepper and directed by former stunt master Ric Roman Waugh, Snitch hits theaters in 2013.