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| THE TOWN |
Year: 2010
USA: Warner Bros Pictures
UK: Warner Bros Pictures International UK
Cast: Ben Affleck, Jon Hamm, Rebecca Hall, Jeremy Renner,
Blake Lively, Pete Postlethwaite, Chris Cooper, Titus Welliver,
Slaine, Owen Burke, Dennis McLaughlin, Corena Chase, Brian Scannell,
Kerri Dunbar
Director: Ben Affleck
Country: USA
USA & UK: 124 mins
USA Rated: R for strong violence, pervasive language, some
sexuality and drug use
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong language, violence,
infrequent sex and hard drug use
USA Release Date: 17 September 2010
UK Release Date: 24 September 2010
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Synopsis
There are over 300 bank robberies in Boston every year. Most of the
professionals live in one square mile neighbourhood called
Charlestown. However, Doug MacCray (Ben Affleck) is not cut from the
same cloth as his fellow thieves and had a chance of escaping from
his father's criminal ways. Instead Doug heads up a band of brutal
bank robbers who take exactly what they want then get out clean.
Doug's crew are his family particularly Jem (Jeremy Renner) who
almost like a brother.
During the gang's last heist, Jem takes the bank manager, Claire
Keesey, hostage but when they accidentally discover soon afterwards
that she also lives in Charlestown, Jem is worried she might be a
problem and wants to see if she a threat to them. Knowing how
ruthless Jem can be, Doug takes control and following Claire he
decides to deliberately chats her up. Claire is completely unaware
that Doug was one of the burglars that had terrorised her at the
bank a short while ago and responds to this charming stranger. As
their relationship develops into a passionate romance, Doug wants to
make a fresh start and quit the town.
Meanwhile Federal Agent Frawley (Jon Hamm) is closing in on Doug's
ruthless gang and pressure mounts on him with Jem increasingly
questioning his loyalty to them. Doug realises that escaping from
his crew is not going to be easy, and could even entangle Claire and
put her life in danger. Any choices Doug once had have now gone
leaving one - betray his friends or lose the woman he loves!
Based on the novel Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan, Ben Affleck
direct and stars in THE TOWN, a dramatic thriller about robbers and
cops, friendship and betrayal, love and hope and escaping a past
that has no future. The film co-stars Jon Hamm (MAD MEN), Rebecca
Hall (VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA), Jeremy Renner (THE HURT LOCKER),
Blake Lively (THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELLING PANTS), Pete
Postlethwaite (IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER), Titus Welliver (GONE BABY
GONE) and Chris Cooper (ADAPTATION).
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