Amber Heard as: Piper Additional Cast: Nicolas Cage, Billy Burke Production Status: Completed Release Date: February 25, 2011 Directed By: Patrick Lussier Screenwriter: Todd Farmer & Patrick Lussier Genre: Horror / Thriller / Action MPAA Rating: R Drive Angry stars Nicolas Cage as Milton, a hardened felon who has broken out for one last chance at redemption. Hell bent on stopping a vicious cult of fanatics who murdered his daughter, he has three days to stop them before they sacrifice his infant granddaughter beneath a full moon. Milton must us his anger to go beyond all human limits in order to save his last connection with humanity. He's joined by Piper (Amber Heard), a young sexy-smart waitress who liberates her ex-boyfriend's cherry red muscle car in order to help Milton. Now, the two of them are hot on the trail of the charismatic Jonah King and his murderous followers. King will throw every one of them faithful under the wheels of Milton's turbo-charged Black ‘71 Challenger, to fulfill hist destiny and unleash hell on earth. But the bloodthirsty cult is the least of Milton's problems. The police are after him, too. And worse. An enigmatic killer known only as "The Accountant." The Accountant knows what Milton is trying to and and simply doesn't care. With wicked cunning and hypnotic savagery, the Accountant will relentlessly pursue Milton at high speed across the forgotten back roads of the American south. Fueled by high octane and pure rage, Milton and Piper must battle the onslaught of King's disciples, avenge his murdered daughter, and save his granddaughter before his last chance at redemption is revoked.

Filming Locations:
Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
Minden, Louisiana, USA
Plain Dealing, Louisiana, USA

Piper: "I'm gonna tell everybody what I caught you doin' with my pink dildo."

Piper: "Gimme one good reason I shouldn't shoot you in the face."

Piper: "Just so you know, I don't pick up hitchikers."
Milton: "I wasn't sticking my thumb out."

"Piper is a gun-toting, cowboy boot wearing, chainsmoking, potty mouth, bat out of hell. She is a bad attitude and a good heart."
- Amber Heard

"Piper's got a bad attitude and a short temper, but a good heart. And I think that's what Milton, played by Nic Cage, likes about her. And they form a sort of paternal bond. A kind of father/daughter or action hero/sidekick duo. And they fight crime and save the world."
- Amber Heard

"I play Piper. She's this bad-mouthed, chain-smoking kind of vigilante of the movie. She's a diner waitress. She's got a lot of spirit and a lot of spunk. A lot of balls, I guess you could say. Milton sees her — the guy who's played by Nic Cage — and they become fast friends and form a bond and partake on this kind of supernatural evil-fighting journey together and they kind of become teammates."
- Amber Heard

"There are a lot of things about this character that are like me. She's a lot more personal to the real me than a lot of characters I've played. It's easier playing this character for me than, say the character in The Stepfather or the character in The Informers so we went out to the gun range, but I do that anyway. Then they wanted to teach me how to drive a classic car, but I do that anyway. I don't smoke, though. My character smokes."
- Amber Heard

"There's not the romantic element there, which I liked because it really preserves the heart of this movie. This movie is a high octane action flick, but it has a heart. It has a real human element that we can all relate to and I think that's important to remember in these movies that can be so absurd or so effects driven that they forget to have that human element that makes us care about the characters, and this doesn't and doesn't lose that. It has real heart and the relationship that Nic and I have really embodies that."
- Amber Heard

"I'm really interested in it. I don't know much about the technology involved. I guess a lot of people don't. I was really anxious before we got to set because I didn't know what this would mean for us on our shoot days. I didn't know if it meant we'd take twice as long to shoot half as much or what it would be. And so far, so good. It hasn't really felt any different. The cameras certainly look different. They certainly behave differently. Everything from checking the gate to when we run out of film, it's all different. But it doesn't feel like I'm doing anything different from my perspective. But it's interesting to see how new it is and everybody on set is kind of learning." [On working with 3D cameras]
- Amber Heard

Milton's not alone in his journey of vengeance; Piper, a scorned waitress dragged into the mix, is played by Amber Heard and she's full of piss and vinegar. If Heard is not propelled into the spotlight with this film, I don't know what it's going to take, she's simply great in this. - ShockTillYouDrop.com

Surprisingly, Drive Angry is saved by Cage’s game supporting cast. Overlooking her obvious sex appeal (which Drive Angry flaunts in abundance), Heard totally sells Piper’s fight skills and tough girl verve. She’s clearly enjoying herself, much like great character actor William Fichtner, landing some of the movie’s best lines as one of Satan’s wranglers assigned to bring Milton back down under. Cage might blunder, but at least the rest of the players stay on track. - Complex.com

Heard gets to utter the insta-classic exit line: “Ah’m ‘onna tell ever’body what ah caught you doin’ with mah pink dildo.” She also gets to wear hot cutoffs, wield a killer right hook, drive like a demon in her deadbeat boyfriend’s souped-up 1969 Dodge Charger, and take several bone-crunching beatings while maintaining flawless hair and makeup. - HollywoodReporter.com

Amber Heard and Billy Burke do everything that can possibly be done with their characters, and don't stop there. - Roger Ebert