Tag Archives: robbery gone awry

Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

IMDB Rating: 8.10
1539 votes

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Storyline
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.
Actors
AndyPhilip Seymour Hoffman
HankEthan Hawke
CharlesAlbert Finney

The Lookout

IMDB Rating: 7.50
1822 votes

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Storyline
An admired high school hockey player (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) with a bright future foolishly takes a drive in the night with his girl friend and two other friends with his headlights off with devastating results. The former athlete is left with a brain injury that prevents him from remembering many things for extended periods of time. To compensate, he keeps notes in a small notebook to aid him in remembering what he is to do. He also lives with a blind friend (Jeff Daniels) who aids him. Obviously, with the mental incapacitation, he is unable to have meaningful work. Thus he works as a night cleaning man in a bank. It is there he comes under the scrutiny of a gang planning to rob the bank. The leader (Matthew Goode) befriends him and gets him involved with a young woman (Isla Fisher) who further reels him in. After they get close and after reeling him in with his own failures, the bank plan unfolds. Confused but wanting to escape his current existence, he initially goes along with the scheme. After realizing he is being used, he attempts to stop the robbery, which of course immediately goes awry. Bruce McGill and Alberta Watson also co-star as the young man's parents, who still search for the person that was there before the tragic crash.
Actors
LewisJeff Daniels
Chris PrattJoseph Gordon-Levitt
Gary SpargoMatthew Goode

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

IMDB Rating: 7.80
24288 votes

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Storyline
A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role...
Actors
Harry LockhartRobert Downey Jr.
Gay PerryVal Kilmer
Harmony Faith LaneMichelle Monaghan

Panic Room

IMDB Rating: 7.00
28292 votes

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Storyline
After her divorce, Meg Altman and her daughter Sarah move into an old-fashioned house with one very modern addition: a "panic room" which is virtually impossible to break into, designed for refuge during a home invasion. In their first night in the house a trio of thieves do break in and Meg and Sarah rush into the panic room. However, the intruders are looking for something inside the panic room, and given the recent move the room's hotline to the police hasn't been hooked up yet. Worse, Sarah is diabetic and the room doesn't contain any sugar...
Actors
Meg AltmanJodie Foster
Sarah AltmanKristen Stewart
BurnhamForest Whitaker