The Gateway is an American crime thriller film directed by Michele Civetta and starring Shea Whigham, Olivia Munn and Frank Grillo.

[1] The screenplay, written by Alexander Felix and originally titled Where Angels Die, was included in the 2013 Black List.

[3] A troubled but dedicated social worker assisting a working and struggling single mother and her daughter intervenes when the father returns from prison and drags his family back to his habitual world of crime.

[5] The film was released in selected theaters and on video-on-demand on September 3, 2021 in the United States.

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes surveyed 37 critics and, categorizing the reviews as positive or negative, assessed 19 as positive and 18 as negative for a 51 percent rating.