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

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.

tensebleaknonlineargrittysuspensefultragicvisceralunflinching

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)

Trailer

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