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The Italian Job
Charlie Croker pulled off the crime of a lifetime. The one thing that he didn't plan on was being double-crossed. Along with a drop-dead gorgeous safecracker, Croker and his team take off to re-steal the loot and end up in a pulse-pounding, pedal-to-the-metal chase that careens up, down, above and below the streets of Los Angeles.
2003 · Directed by F. Gary Gray · 110 min · Action · Crime · Screenplay in the scene database · 8 frames
Tagline
Get in. Get out. Get even.
Plot
Professional safecracker John Bridger's team has plans to steal $35 million worth of gold bars from a safe in Venice from Italian gangsters who had stolen it weeks earlier. Professional fixer Charlie Croker, computer expert Lyle or "Napster", wheelman Handsome Rob, explosives expert Left Ear, and inside man Steve comprise the team. Although the heist is successful, Steve double-crosses them as they drive towards Austria with the bullion, with another crew he takes it for himself and kills John. Rob drives the van over the bridge into the water to protect the others, using air tanks from the heist to stay alive. Steve leaves them for dead.
A year later in Philadelphia, Charlie finds Steve, under a new identity, laundering the gold through Ukrainian jeweler Yevhen to finance his lavish lifestyle in Los Angeles. Charlie gathers the team, and also recruits John's daughter Stella, a skilled private safecracker, offering her the chance to avenge her father's death. They stake out Steve's mansion, and Stella, disguised as a cable technician, maps out its interior and determines the location of Steve's safe containing the bullion. Unaware of Stella's identity, Steve asks her out on a date. The plan is to blow the safe while Steve is away on his supposed date, using three heavily modified Mini Coopers to transport the gold out of the mansion. Supplier Skinny Pete gets the explosives and mechanic Wrench modifies the cars.
On Steve's last visit to Yevhen, Yevhen accidentally reveals that he knows about the Venice heist, and Steve shoots him dead to cover his tracks. Mashkov, the leader of a Ukrainian crime family and Yevhen's cousin, traces the gold back to Skinny Pete via Yevhen's ex-employee Vance.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Donna Powers, Wayne Powers
- Cinematography: Wally Pfister
- Edited by: Richard Francis-Bruce, Christopher Rouse
- Music: John Powell
- Production design: Charles Wood
- Produced by: Donald De Line
Cast
- Mark Wahlberg as Charlie Croker
- Charlize Theron as Stella Bridger
- Edward Norton as Steve
- Seth Green as Lyle
- Jason Statham as Handsome Rob
- Yasiin Bey as Left Ear
- Donald Sutherland as John Bridger
- Olek Krupa as Mashkov
- Boris Lee Krutonog as Yevhen
- Fausto Callegarini as Italian Guard
Production
- Country: France, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: Ukrainian, English, Italian
- Studios: De Line Pictures, Working Title, Paramount Pictures, Peninsula Films
- Budget: $60,000,000
- Box office: $176,070,171
- Themes: gold, california, helicopter, hacker, venice, italy, chase, subway, master thief, safe, heist
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