Out of the Furnace is a 2013 American crime drama thriller film directed by Scott Cooper, from a screenplay by Cooper and Brad Ingelsby. Starring Christian Bale, Woody Harrelson, Casey Affleck, Forest Whitaker, Willem Dafoe, Zoë Saldana, and Sam Shepard, the film follows Russell Baze (Bale), a Pennsylvania steel mill worker searching for his missing brother Rodney (Affleck), an Iraq War veteran who disappeared after engaging in a bare knuckle fighting match arranged by John Petty (Dafoe), an indebted bar owner, and Harlan DeGroat (Harrelson), a ruthless New Jersey drug dealer.