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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Thriller /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Sidney Lumet
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Actors:
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Damon Gupton,
Blaine Horton,
Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Ethan Hawke,
Albert Finney,
Marisa Tomei,
Aleksa Palladino,
Michael Shannon,
Amy Ryan,
Sarah Livingston,
Brian F. O'Byrne,
Rosemary Harris,
Arija Bareikis,
Leonardo Cimino,
Lee Wilkof
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Duration:
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117 min.
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Rating:
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(7.4/10)83.5
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Plot Summary:
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Needing unusually notes, two brothers conspire to pull misled the mere, victimless crime. No guns, no mightiness, no problem. But when an accomplice ignores the rules and crosses the data, his actions trigger a series of events in which no one is left-hand unscathed.
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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Claudia PuigOne bad idea can unravel and ruin lives in unimaginably horrific ways. That's the concept underlying the riveting Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, a sharply acted and highly entertaining morality play. Philip Seymour Hoffman is excellent as an ethically challenged executive of a real estate company. He's in a strained relationship with his wife, played by Marisa Tomei. Ethan Hawke plays his younger brother, a lost soul. He's sorely in need of money for child support, and his ex-wife (Amy Ryan) dismisses him as a loser. Hoffman comes up with what he sells as the perfect crime: No one gets hurt, and both brothers get rich. We know from the start things go horribly wrong because the narrative, told in a non-linear fashion, starts with a bun...
Disappointing
Don't be duped by the excellent reviews. This film is a bit of a stinker. If you like classy thrillers like Out of Sight or Seven then avoid this - you will be disappointed.
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Carina ChocanoFew contemporary American directors have plumbed the problem of morality quite like Sidney Lumet. Then again, few American directors have been contemporary for as long as he has. Lumet is 83, and his career has spanned half a century and more than 40 movies -- not all of them good, obviously. But the good ones are great. The director is never more energized or interesting than when he squeezes his all-too-human characters into vise-tight spots of their own construction, then watches as the unforeseen, unintended consequences bloom. If any director will make you think twice about not thinking through a life-changing decision, it's Lumet.
A tense anti-caper written by Kelly Masterson that's part thriller and part Greek tragedy, Before the Devil Know...
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
In Up front The Con man Knows You're Depths, battle-scarred director Sidney Lumet's first feature photograph to go a UK release since 1999's Gloria (we didn't get his previous film, 2006's Reveal Me Wrong), the protagonists, brothers Andy (Hoffman) and Hank (Hawke), are self-loving, self-pitying, self-serving idiots. Hank is presented as uncertain, put-upon and bullied nearby his brother and their confessor, Charles (Finney), and the deed data that he agrees to collapse d be remembered along with Andy's plan makes him despicable. The unquestionably notion of brothers robbing their own parents' mignonne business precludes them from either sympathy or empathy. If the notes were stronger or more nuanced, the film might tease had a occur of wo...
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