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When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelery store the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that sends them, their father and one brother's wife hurtling towards a shattering climax. Read more

Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, Marisa Tomei
Director Sidney Lumet
Genres Drama, Thriller

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Before The Devil Knows You're Dead

When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelery store the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that sends them, their father and one brother's wife hurtling towards a shattering climax.

Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, Marisa Tomei, Rosemary Harris, Aleksa Palladino, Michael Shannon, Amy Ryan
Director Sidney Lumet
Studio ENTERTAINMENT IN VIDEO RENTAL
Run time DVD: 1 hr 57 mins
Blu-ray: 1 hr 57 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 15.gif
Collections New releases
Genres Drama, Thriller
Language English
Released DVD: 05 May 2008
Blu-ray: unknown
Production year: 2007
Format DVD
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  • Things fall apart, as any student of crime will tell you. And if you want to make God laugh, tell him your... read more »

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  • 102 out of 115 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    were the critics paid to like this one!

    This is bad bad bad. Everyone in it is an idiot and you don't care one bit about a single person in the film. Look for something else, I think you will be glad.

      • A customer from London
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  • 2 out of 3 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    This dragged on a lot

    When you check the film sleeve for the running time half way through the movie you know it isn't going well! This is a film about a robbery of a jewellery store by two brothers that goes terribly wrong. There are a few moments of underlying humour and the acting is all quite acceptable. However, the pace is just so very slow and the let's see the same thing from different perspectives and pretend to be all creative is completely old and unoriginal now. The characters themselves are quite unlikeable (even to themselves!), but whereas with films like Margot at the Wedding the characters remain interesting, these do not. They are all whiney and self-involved to the extent that they actually get on your nerves. Often with films like this you can find yourself talking about them, discussing the themes etc., this one you just want to forget.

      • AngelC80 from Leicester
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    Eastern Promises - BLU-RAY Version

    Before The Devil Know's You're Dead

    • 08 Jan 2008

    Things fall apart, as any student of crime will tell you. And if you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans. Andy (Philip Seymour Hoffman) has a plan. He's in accounts, and he's been embezzling funds to feed his coke habit and keep his pretty wife happy, but he knows he can't go on indefinitely. What he doesn't know, is Gina (Marisa Tomei) has been two-timing him with his brother Hank (Ethan Hawke). If he had an inkling, Andy might have laid it out differently. Or maybe not. Hank needs... Read more

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