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Synopsis: Needing extra cash, two brothers conspire to pull off the perfect, victimless crime. No guns, no violence, no problem. But when an accomplice ignores the rules and crosses the line, his actions trigger a series of events in which no one is left unscathed.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Sidney Lumet
Production: ThinkFilm
  17 wins & 27 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
84
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
R
Year:
2007
117 min
$6,955,841
Website
1,538 Views


Well, what's the place?

No, not another word till you commit.

F***.

It's all right.

So, how's the wife?

Hey, Hank.

Hey, I got an appointment.

- I'll be back in a few, all right.

- Of course, you will. It's Thursday.

- You're early.

- Well...

You know my days are so busy.

Just tell me that you'll think about it.

But I thought about it already.

And I came to the conclusion

that you're crazy.

I'm going to go where with you?

I mean, you've got child support.

You've got Danielle's school,

you've got the rent...

- The mortgage...

- Come on.

...you're up to your ears in debt, Hank.

- I can solve all that. I know I can.

When are you going to grow up, Hank?

We have a really good thing going,

and you should just enjoy it.

We have a really good time in bed.

I don't ask for anything.

I love you. I want more.

So does Oliver Twist.

Can I help you to seconds?

Or do you really, really, really

have to get back?

Huh?

"The weight of this sad time we must obey.

"Speak what we feel

and not what we ought to say.

"The oldest hath borne most.

"We that are young shall never see so much,

"nor live so long. "

Bravo! Bravo!

You were great. I'm so proud of you.

You were wonderful.

Grandpa and I thought you were wonderful.

Excuse me, I'm sorry. It's just...

I have to have your autograph.

- Dad. No.

- What, you were incredible.

- No, stop it.

- What?

- I messed up some of my lines.

- No, you didn't. I didn't notice.

- Did you notice?

- I didn't notice at all.

Honey, you were great. What?

Mom, can I go see The Lion King

this weekend?

- There's a class trip, everyone's going.

- Did you ask your father?

- Can I, Dad?

- Yeah, sure. I got some money.

Well, it's $130.

But we're staying overnight

and that includes hotel and everything.

Okay, great. Yeah.

- Yeah.

- Hey, man. Can I talk to you?

- Where are you?

- I'm down the hall, by the coffee.

- How about my office, 30 seconds?

- All right.

Hank, the super at 111 Riverside

says the boiler's really kaput.

He needs you to... Hello?

So?

- That place that you were talking about.

- What place?

- The one that we were going to...

- To knock off?

Yeah.

To rob?

You say it.

Tell me about it.

I'm not going to tell you about it

until you say you're in

and once you say it, there's no way out.

I'm in.

Let me see your hands.

- Just say it again, "I'm in. "

- What're you talking about?

Just say it again, "I'm in. "

I'm in.

What?

I just wanted to see if you were pulling

any of that chickenshit baby stuff

like when we were kids, you know,

"It doesn't count.

I had my fingers crossed. "

I'm in. What're we doing?

- And when?

- It's a jewelry store.

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Kelly Masterson

Kelly Masterson is an American screenwriter, playwright and writer who lives in New York. He wrote the screenplay for the film Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, for which he is perhaps best known. Before moving to New York to stage several of his early plays, he studied Theology at the University of California, Davis.He tried to get the script for Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, made seven years before director Sidney Lumet agreed to direct it. In describing his script he has said: "I don't know. It was winter, and I was depressed I guess when I was writing it. I'm fascinated by the folly of human nature. I love characters who we understand and sympathize with, but we just shake our heads at how stupidly they act. This probably comes from my theology background but I love the big themes of good and evil and how we're such a combination of both. We try to chart a path that's on the side of good, but we all have evil impulses in us."Subsequent to his success with Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, he has worked in several media including stage plays, film and television. Masterson's play Edith. about Woodrow and Edith Wilson premiered at the Berkshire Theater Festival in 2012. He also collaborated with Korean director Bong Joon-ho on the critically acclaimed Snowpiercer, an English-language production that received a North American release in 2014. Masterson wrote the teleplay for the television movie, Killing Kennedy, which aired in November 2013 on the National Geographic Channel. more…

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