Inside Man Page #4

Synopsis: From a cell, a man tells us he has planned the perfect bank robbery; he invites us to watch. An efficient gang enters a Manhattan bank, locks the doors, and takes hostages. They work deliberately, without haste. Detective Frazier is assigned to negotiate, but half his mind is occupied with the corruption charges he is facing. The bank's president has something to protect in a safe deposit box, so he brings in Madeleine White, a high-power broker with a hidden agenda. With an army of police surrounding the bank, the thief, the cop, and the plutocrat's fixer enter high-stakes negotiations. Why are the robbers asking for a plane, if they are so competent and they know they won't get one? Why aren't they in more of a hurry? If the job's perfect, why is the thieves' leader in a cell?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Spike Lee
Production: Universal Pictures
  6 wins & 11 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
76
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
R
Year:
2006
129 min
$88,439,515
Website
5,706 Views


The way this works, Mr Frazier,

is I deal with Mr Grossman.

So if you need anything,

you can speak with him, okay?

No, it's not okay, Captain.

Detective Grossman is away on vacation,

so Detective Frazier

is the big dick today, all right?

Now, if you need anything,

you can speak to me, all right?

I guess it'll have to be.

That's the way it's gonna be.

You got vests for us?

- Berk!

Yo!

- Get these guys some vests!

- Okay.

- And check them into the command log.

- Okay.

You know what?

I'm gonna get out of your hair

and let you get control

of this crime scene, okay?

You'll let me know when you're ready

with a detailed briefing?

- Okay.

- We're gonna take a walk down to the diner.

Don't go in the bank without calling us first,

all right? Okay?

- All right.

- Good to see you, Captain.

Shouldn't we be in there?

Let's give him some time. See what he does.

Come on.

Until he secures his position

and gets the physical layout,

he'll only dump on us.

If the show starts, he'll call us.

Trust me. I've seen him work.

Your call, Keith.

Can you get that for me?

I guess it is, isn't it?

That's the one thing I learnt

from Grossman,

is these guys don't have much respect

for what we do.

- How do you mean?

- Well, to them it's a tactical situation.

Us being here means there's

a mental side to it that they don't get.

- Told you, you could handle this.

- Yeah.

I keep waiting for someone higher up

on the food chain to show up and say,

"Here's what we do. "

What happened at the hospital?

Guy shot himself, shot his girlfriend.

Thank you.

I told you, I've got

a heart condition.

Get up.

Put down

your f***ing weapons!

- Don't move! Don't move!

- Don't shoot! Don't shoot!

- Don't move! Don't move! Come here!

- I haven't got...

- Come here, come here, come here!

- I work in the bank!

On your knees! Down on your knees now!

- They sent me out here!

- Now!

- He said stay away!

- Cuff him.

If you come near the bank,

he'll throw out two dead bodies!

- Who said this? Who?

- I don't know who!

The guy with the big f***ing gun!

- That's who!

- All right, get on your feet. Let's go.

- There's four of them in there!

- Come on.

Christ!

- Calm down!

- Let's go!

- Am I gonna be on TV?

- Yeah. A big star. Let's go. Come on.

Was it a time when I thought

I might not see my family again? Yeah.

Yeah, I thought about it.

I mean, at first, I wasn't...

It was too much to think about at that point.

You know, with a gun in your face,

but after a while I...

You know, I thought about...

Yeah.

My wife, you know,

not seeing my wife again.

My kids. I got a 10-year-old son,

Yeah, I thought about it, man.

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Russell Gewirtz

Russell Gewirtz (born 1967 in Great Neck, New York) is an American screenwriter, best known for writing the screenplay for Spike Lee's Inside Man. more…

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