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Synopsis: New York City is subsumed in arctic winds, dark nights, and white lights, its life unfolds, for it is an extraordinary hive of the imagination, the greatest house ever built, and nothing exists that can check its vitality. One night in winter, Peter Lake (Colin Farrell), orphan and master-mechanic, attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side. Though he thinks the house is empty, the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the love between Peter, an Irish burglar in his early 20's, and Beverly Penn (Jessica Brown Findlay), a young girl, who is dying.
Director(s): Akiva Goldsman
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
31
Rotten Tomatoes:
13%
PG-13
Year:
2014
118 min
$10,628,616
Website
1,531 Views


All right, let's go.

Horse.

Horse.

Come on.

Horse, it's gonna be light soon.

We need to get out of town.

Pearly's got a hundred eyes

looking after us.

Come on.

Come on.

Hor...

You're just getting greedy now.

Fine.

But this is our last score.

Don't know who's a bigger fool:

A horse who won't listen to his master,

or a master who listens to his horse.

God, make me cold.

Hello, you beauty.

James...

James the Lesser, Bartholomew...

Squeaks.

What?

It squeaks.

Age.

You have a gun.

Right.

What are you doing here?

I was just robbing the place,

you know.

Or that was the idea, anyway.

Is that still your intention?

Uh...

No.

No, it isn't.

Well, then...

I suppose the polite thing to do

would be to offer you a cup of tea.

Wow.

You did understand

the part about me...

coming here to steal

from you, yeah?

It's my father, technically.

I broke in.

Where?

He takes epic measures

to bar entry.

Well, actually, you left the door to

the roof wedged open. So I just...

- Did I?

- Yeah.

I must stop doing that.

Yeah.

I mean, you should be scared.

Well, I'm not.

No, I can see that.

The tea is lovely.

It's called Lapsang Souchong.

It's black and from China.

It's too hot for me to drink...

but the smell always reminds me

of London.

I've never been to London.

I didn't think so. No. Heh.

I was born there.

What's wrong with you,

if you don't mind me asking?

Consumption.

I'm 21 and I've never been kissed

on the mouth.

Sorry, that came out wrong.

I don't know anyone, you see.

I can't go out. I can't dance.

I sleep in a tent on the roof to keep

my body temperature within reason.

I have maybe...

according to one doctor who came up

from Baltimore, a year and a half.

In Boston, they said six months.

But that was eight months ago...

so really, I'm already

two months dead.

I'm Peter Lake.

And where are you from, Peter Lake?

A boat.

- A boat?

- Yeah.

I never knew my parents.

Boat washed up ashore in Brooklyn.

So I was told.

And you steal things.

I do steal things. Yeah,

from time to time.

It wasn't always that way, though.

I always wanted to be a mechanic.

You know, I always had a knack...

for fixing things,

getting to the insides of things.

Like safes.

Well, that's how it

ended up, anyways.

Lately, I've been having a bit

of a disagreement with an old boss.

I should imagine disputes in your

line of work are hard to settle.

Challenging, yeah.

What's the best thing

you've ever stolen?

I'm beginning to think I

haven't stolen it yet.

Aren't you the charmer.

It's been lovely.

Lovely to meet you, Peter Lake.

Listen, I have to leave New York.

A few months at most.

Let that disagreement blow over.

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Akiva Goldsman

Akiva J. Goldsman (born July 7, 1962) is an American film and television writer, director, and producer. He received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the 2001 film, A Beautiful Mind, which also won the Oscar for Best Picture. more…

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