The Old Man & the Gun (2018)

Directed by

David Lowery

Genre

drama film, biographical film, crime comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 1,508 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An aging bank robber keeps escaping from prison and pulling heists. A detective tries to catch him while a woman he meets is drawn to his charm.

gentlenostalgiclightheartedunderstatedwrycharmingbittersweetleisurely

What happens

The Old Man & the Gun is a 2018 American biographical crime film written and directed by David Lowery, about Forrest Tucker, a career criminal and prison escape artist. The script is loosely based on David Grann's 2003 article in The New Yorker titled "The Old Man and the Gun", which was later collected in Grann's 2010 book The Devil and Sherlock Holmes. The film stars Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Danny Glover, Tika Sumpter, Tom Waits and Sissy Spacek. Redford, then 82 years old, announced his intention to retire from acting after completion of the film. Redford's brief appearance in Avengers: Endgame (2019) was filmed before he made The Old Man & the Gun. It was his final filmed movie role before his death in 2025. The film had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2018, and was theatrically released in the United States by Fox Searchlight Pictures on September 28, 2018. It received mostly positive reviews from critics, and Redford was nominated for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy at the 76th Golden Globe Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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