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Heist (2001)
Front Cover Actor
Gene Hackman Joe Moore
Danny DeVito Bergman
Delroy Lindo Bobby Blane
Sam Rockwell Jimmy Silk
Rebecca Pidgeon Fran
Ricky Jay Don "Pinky" Pincus
Patti LuPone Betty Croft
Jim Frangione D. A. Freccia
Movie Details
Director David Mamet
Studio Warner Brothers
Language English
Running Time 107 mins
Country USA
Color Color
Plot
Esteemed writer/director David Mamet fashioned this homage to the elegant, character-driven "tough guy" genre pictures of Warner Bros. in the 1930s and '40s, even using vintage scores in the soundtrack. Gene Hackman stars as Joe Moore, an accomplished thief whose career is jeopardized after he's caught on security cameras during a job. Broke, Joe and his associates Bobby (Delroy Lindo) and Pinky (Ricky Jay) are blackmailed by their longtime fence Bergman (Danny DeVito) into jacking Swiss gold bars from an airplane. As they plot the complicated score, Joe and his crew become suspicious of the relationship between Joe's young wife Fran (Rebecca Pidgeon) and Bergman's nephew Jimmy Silk (Sam Rockwell), who has been planted on the crew to keep an eye on them for his uncle. Betrayals and backstabbings are the order of the day as Joe gets closer to the payday of a lifetime. In an effort to reinforce the solid storytelling of classic crime dramas, Mamet eschewed the use of computers or high-tech gadgetry in the complicated plot. Heist (2001) co-stars Patti LuPone. — Karl Williams
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Format DivX
Region Region 1
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