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The Lookout (2007)

The Lookout poster
Directed by
Scott Frank
Genre
drama film, heist film, crime thriller film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 39m
Rated
R
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 721 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A former high school hockey star suffers a brain injury from a car accident and now works as a janitor at a bank. He gets pulled into a heist plot by a former classmate.

tensemelancholicdeliberatesomberatmosphericintrospectivedarkly realistic

What happens

The Lookout is a 2007 American crime film written and directed by Scott Frank, in his directorial debut, and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Bruce McGill, and Isla Fisher. The film was released by Miramax Films on March 30, 2007. While it received positive reviews the film was nevertheless a box-office bomb, grossing $5.4 million against a $16 million budget. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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