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Heist
Joe Moore has a job he loves. He's a thief. His job goes sour when he gets caught on security camera tape. His fence, Bergman, reneges on the money he's owed, and his wife may be betraying him with the fence's young lieutenant. Moore and his partner, Bobby Blane, and their utility man, Pinky Pincus, find themselves broke, betrayed, and blackmailed. Moore is forced to commit his crew to do one last big job.
2001 · Directed by David Mamet · 107 min · Action · Crime · Drama · Thriller · Screenplay in the scene database · 13 frames
Tagline
It isn't love that makes the world go round.
Plot
Joe Moore runs a ring of professional thieves, which includes Bobby Blane, Donnie "Pinky" Pincus and Joe's wife Fran. During a robbery of a New York City jewelry store, Joe takes off his mask in a successful effort to distract the store's last remaining employee, allowing his face to be captured by a security camera; he is unable to retrieve the video evidence before they have to flee. As both the picture and a witness can identify him, Joe retires from crime and plans to disappear on his sailboat with Fran.
This does not sit well with Joe's fence, Mickey Bergman, who runs a garment business as a front. Having accrued significant expenses in setting up another robbery, Bergman decides to withhold the payment of the jewelry heist from Joe and his crew, so that they go through with the next job – robbing an airplane carrying a large shipment of gold. Bergman further insists that his nephew, Jimmy Silk, be a part of the crew. Joe accepts, but a series of shifting loyalties changes the complexity of their task, including Jimmy's interest in Fran, along with Bergman and Jimmy's belief that Joe's skills are declining.
While setting up an element needed for the robbery, they are stopped by a passing police officer. While Joe and Bobby talk the officer into leaving, an agitated Jimmy draws his gun but is stopped by Pinky. Joe forces the team out of finishing the job by leading Jimmy to believe that Pinky did not destroy the getaway car, covered in the team's fingerprints. The deceit is discovered and Bergman forces them to finish the job.
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Crew
- Written by: David Mamet
- Cinematography: Robert Elswit
- Edited by: Barbara Tulliver
- Music: Theodore Shapiro
- Production design: David Wasco
- Produced by: Andrew Stevens, Elie Samaha, Art Linson
Cast
- Gene Hackman as Joe Moore
- Danny DeVito as Mickey Bergman
- Delroy Lindo as Bobby 'Bob' Blane
- Sam Rockwell as Jimmy Silk
- Rebecca Pidgeon as Fran Moore
- Ricky Jay as Don 'Pinky' Pincus
- Patti LuPone as Betty Croft
- Alan Bilzerian as Fast Food Customer
- Richard L. Friedman as Counterman
- Robert Lussier as Fast Food Cook
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Stolen Film Productions, Franchise Pictures, Indelible Pictures, Epsilon Motion Pictures
- Budget: $35,000,000
- Box office: $28,500,000
- Themes: receiving of stolen goods, blackmail, bank robber, crook couple, heist, double cross, jewelry heist, criminal gang, aging hero, gold heist
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