Hi Nathaniel,
I watched The Maker recently. It's your favourite film I read. fairuza's acting great, but unfortunately I don't like the whole movie. My favourite scene is, when Bela is petting with her cheerleader in the back of the shabby car and he's drinking his diet beer in the front. It's so funny, when fairuza tastes the beer and then spits it out of the window. (A warm american diet beer is almost the ugliest thing I can imagine.;))
After this scene Bela disapears and the film is changing into an ordinary gangster ballad. I expected a triple love story between the boy, fairuza and the cop. I was a little bit disapointed there isn't one little scene with Bela in the second part of the film.
Greets,
Morgoth