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Synopsis: In New York, the experienced art thief, Keith Ripley, invites the bold thief from Miami, Gabriel Martin, to team up with him. He plans the heist of two valuable mysterious antique Faberge eggs, located in a safe, of the well protected Russian jewelry Romanov. Each egg is worth twenty million dollars on the black market, and Ripley needs his cut to free himself from his debt to a powerful mobster, known as Nicky. The reluctant Gabriel agrees to participate, after having a one night stand with Ripley's goddaughter Alexandra Karolin. Meanwhile, the persistent Lieutenant Weber, who has unsuccessfully tried to put Ripley in jail for twenty years, figures out how to anticipate the movements of the criminal in order to catch him.
Director(s): Mimi Leder
Production: First Look Studios
 
IMDB:
6.0
R
Year:
2009
104 min
256 Views


Stalking?

Well... if you had given me

your number, I would have called first.

Those are two

very flawed assumptions.

Do you have a vase?

I just took these

from a roadside shrine...

and I think they need some, huh...

water.

Huh...

- May I use that... huh, thing over there?

- Sure...

I... I've noticed this... huh,

Russian nightclub, down the block, huh...

Riga Rose

or something like that.

Why don't we meet there

after work?

I'm busy.

- I'll wait.

- I won't show.

I'll take my chances.

Do svldanja, Alexandra.

Research. Keith Ripley.

'93, the Brooklyn Museum.

'94, the Diamond District Warehouse

and then in '95...

I'm very familiar

with Ripley's life story, Michaels.

In fact, I busted him twice.

Both times he walked

because of good lawyering.

Exactly, so I thought

why not swing for the fences?

Murder one, Victor Korolenko.

Thinkin ' of the Brighton Beach steam bath?

Forget it. There was no...

- No body. But we've got a ton of forensics.

- And no witnesses.

Nobody there admitted

to seeing a thing.

I was this close to convincing

Korolenko to take witness protection,

in exchange for giving up Ripley.

But Ripley got to him first.

I can't prove it.

Right, okay. I see, I see... okay.

No...

what you don't see, Michaels,

is why Ripley got involved

in a small-time caper,

like grabbin ' a few diamonds

off of some couriers on a subway.

And neither did I.

Until I read

the Dutch guy's statement.

Those diamonds

came from Romanov's.

You mean Ripley and his new partner

are planning to take down Romanov's?

Ah... come on.

Like that could ever happen.

Not even Ripley

could take down a place like that.

Wanna bet?

- Hi.

- Hi.

- You know this place very well.

- I never said I didn't.

Let's face it,

you didn't see the nightclub.

You saw the flyer in the fax

and then you made an assumption.

Yeah. Guilty. So I did.

Never assume anything,

especially down here.

- How mysterious.

- What?

How mysterious.

- Can I buy you a drink?

- I don't drink.

Another assumption.

You wanna dance?

Yeah.

I'm willing to make a fool of myself.

Why not?

Here.

- And for him.

- Thank you.

Thanks.

I thought all Russians drank.

Translation,

we're a race of suicidal alcoholics.

No... I didn't mean that. No.

Actually, we are.

Cheers.

- Nastravila?

- Nastravise

Nastravise?

Mm'mm

So... how is it...

working for the lawyer?

- Huh... I'm a lawyer, too, you know.

- Oh.

Maybe I won't say another word,

because everthing I say is wrong.

- Well, you don't know until you try.

- True.

Besides, my father warned me

about being a lawyer.

He told me I should try and do

something honest with my life.

As if he would know.

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Ted Humphrey

Ted Humphrey is an American television and film writer and producer. He has worked in both capacities on the series The Nine and The Unit and the legal dramas Shark and The Good Wife. He was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for best new series for The Good Wife in 2010, as well as a 2010 Emmy Award for Best Drama Series for The Good Wife. In 2011 he was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Episodic Drama Writing for the episode. more…

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