“Running With The Devil” (*** out of four) was a harrowing melodrama about the international drug trade as it effects different classes and elements of life; a ruthless C.E.O. (Barry Pepper) who has a lucrative side business involved in cocaine, a restaurant owner (Nicholas Cage) who is trying to be a family man, an operative (Laurence Fishburne) who has been developing a problem with using which is affecting his reliability, and a federal agent (Leslie Bibb) trying to make a difference in society by putting a stop to drugs and their influx. Impefect, as story sometimes wanders and lacks the grandeur and complexity of the similarly themed “Traffic”, but still holds you by the collar with its tense filmmaking and good performances. Cage is particularly strong in an unusual role for him.