Puncture

2011 • 1h 40m •

Drama Mystery

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★ 6.7/10

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Based on a true story. Mike Weiss (Chris Evans) is a brilliant but self-destructive Houston attorney whose drug addiction threatens to destroy his career. When he and his law partner Paul Danziger (Mark Kassen) take on a case involving a nurse injured by a contaminated needle, they uncover a $130 billion medical supply monopoly that has been blocking a life-saving safety

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Chris Evans

Mike Weiss

Mark Kassen

Paul Danziger

Michael Biehn

Red

Vinessa Shaw

Nurse Vicky Rogers

Kate Burton

Senator O'Reilly

Brett Cullen

Nathaniel Price

Marshall Bell

Jeffrey Dancort

Jesse L. Martin

Daryl King

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V valjean246o1 Verified TMDB Critic

2026-07-21

**A True Story That Changed an Industry**

What makes Puncture remarkable isn't just Chris Evans' performance — it's that the story is real, and the man who lived it produced the film himself. Paul Danziger, the Houston attorney who was Mike Weiss's law partner, served as Executive Producer and brought his own case to the screen with unflinching honesty.

In 1998, Danziger and Weiss — two young attorneys working out of a small personal injury practice in Houston, Texas — filed a federal antitrust lawsuit on behalf of Retractable Technologies against Becton Dickinson and the hospital ...