An unidentified woman is engaged in a brutal fight with a man in a car and finally dispatches him with a shot to the head. Five years earlier, the same woman, Riley North, is working as a banker in Los Angeles struggling to make ends meet. Her husband Chris owns a failing mechanic shop. They have a ten-year-old daughter, Carly. Chris' friend tries to talk him into robbing Diego Garcia, a powerful drug lord. Chris turns him down, but not before Garcia has already discovered his involvement and ordered his men to make an example of him. Riley and Chris take Carly out for pizza and to a carnival for her birthday since no one showed up to her party. At the carnival, Carly orders peppermint ice cream. As the family walks to the car, Diego's men gun down her husband and daughter in a drive-by shooting. She is wounded, but survives.

Peppermint
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Directed by	Pierre Morel
Produced by	Gary Lucchesi Tom Rosenberg Richard S. Wright
Screenplay by	Chad St. John
Starring	Jennifer Garner John Ortiz John Gallagher Jr. Juan Pablo Raba Tyson Ritter
Music by	Simon Franglen
Cinematography	David Lanzenberg
Edited by	Frédéric Thoraval
Production company	Lakeshore Entertainment Huayi Brothers Tang Media Productions
Release date	September 7, 2018
Running time	102 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$22.8 million[2]
Box office	$53.8 million[3]