Rating: R
Genre:
Crime
Theatrical Release: 11/09/2001(USA)
Release Date: 03/12/2002
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD
Run Time: 109 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
Esteemed writer/director
David Mamet fashioned this homage to the elegant, character-driven "tough guy" genre pictures of
Warner Bros. in the 1930s and '40s, even using vintage scores in the soundtrack.
Gene Hackman stars as
Joe Moore, an accomplished thief whose career is jeopardized after he's caught on security cameras during a job. Broke,
Joe and his associates
Bobby (
Delroy Lindo) and
Pinky (
Ricky Jay) are blackmailed by their longtime fence
Bergman (
Danny DeVito) into jacking Swiss gold bars from an airplane. As they plot the complicated score,
Joe and his crew become suspicious of the relationship between
Joe's young wife
Fran (
Rebecca Pidgeon) and
Bergman's nephew
Jimmy Silk (
Sam Rockwell), who has been planted on the crew to keep an eye on them for his uncle. Betrayals and backstabbings are the order of the day as
Joe gets closer to the payday of a lifetime. In an effort to reinforce the solid storytelling of classic
crime dramas,
Mamet eschewed the use of computers or high-tech gadgetry in the complicated plot.
Heist (2001) co-stars
Patti LuPone.
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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