Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
- Directed by
- Sidney Lumet
- Genre
- drama film, film noir, action film, heist film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 7.1 of 10 from 1,745 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Two brothers plan a robbery of their parents' jewelry store. The heist goes horribly wrong and sets off a chain of devastating events for the family.
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What happens
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead is a 2007 American crime thriller film directed by Sidney Lumet. The film was written by Kelly Masterson, and stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Marisa Tomei, and Albert Finney. The title comes from the Irish saying: "May you be in heaven a full half-hour before the devil knows you're dead". The film unfolds in a nonlinear narrative, repeatedly going back and forth in time, with some scenes shown repeatedly from differing points of view. It was the last film Lumet directed before his death in 2011. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead premiered at Deauville on September 6, 2007 before being released by ThinkFilm on October 26, 2007. The film appeared on 21 critics' end-of-the-year top ten lists indexed by Metacritic and was selected as one of 2007's ten best American films by the American Film Institute, at the 2007 AFI Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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