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Master filmmaker Sidney Lumet directs this absorbing
suspense thriller about a family facing the worst enemy of all –
itself. Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Andy, an overextended
broker who lures his younger brother, Hank (Ethan Hawke), into a
larcenous scheme: the pair will rob a suburban mom-and-pop jewelry
store that appears to be the quintessential easy target. The problem
is, the store owners are Andy and Hank’s actual mom and pop and, when
the seemingly perfect crime goes awry, the damage lands right at their
doorstep.
Oscar-winner Marisa Tomei plays Hoffman’s trophy wife,
who is having a clandestine affair with Hawke, and the stellar cast
also includes Albert Finney as the family patriarch who pursues justice
at all costs, completely unaware that the culprits he is hunting are
his own sons. A classy, classic heist-gone-wrong drama in the tradition
of “The Killing” and Lumet’s own “The Anderson Tapes,” BEFORE THE DEVIL
KNOW YOU’RE DEAD is smart enough to know that we often have the most to
fear from those who are near and dear.
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