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Before The Devil Knows You're Dead Details

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  • Rated:
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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.

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  • 8 out of 9 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    he's 82 you know.

    This recieved rave reviews on it's cinema release,not least I think down to the director Sidney lumet being 82.

    The first hour of the film I think is put together pretty well. But as I got further into it I started to find the little flash backs some what annoying. As it moved into the second hour I started to think this is actually pretty dull. Finally the last twenty minutes just turns bonkers. Not as great as they tell you. But not a complete stinker. Just a 'so what?'

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    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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