"What Doesn't Kill You" -- a gritty Boston crime drama based on the life of the film's writer/director Brian Goodman -- has been getting rave reviews at film festivals, and as of last Friday it's beginning to open in limited release.

In our exclusive clip, Brian (played by Mark Ruffalo) -- a man whose life of crime is beginning to spiral dangerously out of control -- is visited by a local police detective (Donnie Wahlberg, who also co-wrote the film). Check it out below.

“What Doesn’t Kill You,” Brian Goodman’s first film as writer and director, is getting some pretty stellar early reviews, like “amazing reviews” Samuel L. Jackson enthused. "It's awesome."

So awesome, apparently, that Jackson is ready to take the plunge with Goodman on the rising director’s follow-up, “The Fallen,” a story which centers around a group of Boston firemen. Now all the talented duo (who admit to golfing together a few times a week) need is a greenlight.

“Yeah, we’ll see what happens with that,” Goodman said of the finished script, which he is currently deciding what to do with. “We are looking at that and we both would like to work together and we’ll see what happens.” Read more...