Heist (film)

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Heist

Heist poster
Directed by David Mamet
Produced by Art Linson
Elie Samaha
Andrew Stevens
Written by David Mamet
Starring Gene Hackman
Danny DeVito
Delroy Lindo
Sam Rockwell
Rebecca Pidgeon
Ricky Jay
Music by Theodore Shapiro
Cinematography Robert Elswit
Editing by Barbara Tulliver
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date(s) November 9, 2001
Running time 107 min.
Country USA
Language English
Budget US$ 35 million
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Heist is a 2001 crime thriller written and directed by David Mamet. The film's cast includes Gene Hackman, Danny DeVito, Delroy Lindo, Sam Rockwell, Ricky Jay, and Rebecca Pidgeon.

Tagline: Love makes the world go 'round... Love of Gold.

Joe Moore (Hackman) heads a group of professional thieves, which includes Bobby Blane (Lindo), Don 'Pinky' Pincus (Jay), and Joe's wife Fran (Pidgeon). During a mid-morning robbery of a jewelry store, Joe's picture is captured on a security camera, leading him to choose an early retirement. That doesn't sit well with Bergman (DeVito), Joe's fence, who, after accruing a number of expenses in setting up another robbery, denies Joe and his crew their payment and presses them into taking on the other job -- the hijacking of a Swiss airplane carrying a large shipment of gold. With Bergman's hotheaded nephew Jimmy Silk (Rockwell) reluctantly brought into the fold, Joe and his crew agree to pull off the caper, but a series of shifting loyalties amongst thieves changes the whole complexion of their task.

Essentially a re-examination of Mamet's favorite device, the confidence game, the film was more of a success with critics than audiences. Roger Ebert is among the film's admirers, praising not only Mamet's trademark verbal constructions ("Everybody wants money -- that's why they call it money!") and restrained approach to on-screen gunplay, but also the care that the director takes in shaping the relationships between the principals. [1]

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