Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

THINKFilms' Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
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Rating: R
Release Date: Nov 2, 2007
Running Time: 117 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
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Andy, an overextended broker, lures his younger brother, Hank into a larcenous scheme: the pair will rob a suburban mom-and-pop jewelry store that appears to be the quintessential easy target. The problem is, the store owners are Andy and Hank's actual mom and pop. When the seemingly perfect crime goes awry, the damage lands right at their doorstep. In the meantime, Andy's trophy wife is having a clandestine affair with Hank, and the family patriarch, who is intent on pursuing justice at all costs, is completely unaware that the culprits he is hunting are his own sons.
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Proving why he's still an American classic, 83-year-old director Sidney Lumet turns in another brilliantly executed crime thriller. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead might be a downer but it's a real stunner.

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Sometimes the simplest of crimes are the ones that go the most awrya fact Andy (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and his younger brother Hank (Ethan Hawke) find out the hard way. You see, they both have money problems: Andy is an overextended payroll exec who has been embezzling from his… Continued

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rating  PETER TRAVERS - October 18, 2007
Give props to Sidney Lumet. His influence is everywhere. American Gangster is just the kind of film this prince of New York City would have directed in the 1970s. And Tony Gilroy's Michael Clayton owes much to Lumet's Network and The Verdict. So it's a kick that Lumet, 83, puts the younger mavericks to shame with a dynamite film that ranks with the year's best. The topic is a family coming apart. The Hanson brothers, Andy (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Hank (Ethan Hawke), are in debt and at each… Continued