The Town R
Welcome to the bank robbery capital of America.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 17, 2010
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ben Affleck, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner & Rebecca Hall | |
Performer: | Pete Postlethwaite, Chris Cooper & Blake Lively | |
Directed by | Ben Affleck | |
Screenwriting by | Ben Affleck, Aaron Stockard & Peter Craig | |
Composition by | David Buckley & Harry Gregson-Williams | |
Director of Photography: | Robert Elswit |
Entertainment Reviews:
3.5 stars out of 4 -- [A] gripping human drama disguised as a blazing heist film that comes on like gangbusters.
Rolling Stone
The ending, which could have swerved differently, is as realistic as it can be and it's just "right" at different levels.
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San Diego Entertainer
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Affleck gets the tone mostly right (his use of natural lighting in the film's final stretch is impressive), but he has yet to completely find his footing as a director.
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The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)
In between terrific action set pieces, The Town lightens the anxiety with some chewy, funny moments.
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The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
John Hamm, playing a character who should not have existed in the script, gives a performance so bad he looks as puzzled to be there as Jeremy Renner looks pissed.
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n+1
4.5 stars out of 5 -- This taut story about a guy trying to get out of the criminal life into which he was born is loaded with action, but it's also so smartly written that a complex character study rests at its heart.
Box Office
So this isn't fresh, exactly, but it is tense and exciting and well performed and you do end up caring about the people you've been manipulated into caring about. I ask you: what more could you want from a trip to the cinema?
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The Spectator
Description by OLDIES.com:
Ben Affleck follows his acclaimed Gone Baby Gone directorial debut by directing, co-writing and starring in a taut thriller about robbers and cops, friendship and betrayal, love and hope and escaping a past that has no future. He plays Doug MacRay, leader of a Boston bank robber gang but not cut from the same cloth as his fellow thieves. When Doug falls into a passionate romance with the bank manager (Rebecca Hall) briefly taken hostage in their last heist, he wants out of this life and out of the town. As the Feds close in and the crew questions his loyalty, he has one of two choices: betray his friends or lose the woman he loves. Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively, Titus Welliver, Pete Postlethwaite and Chris Cooper also star.
Product Description:
Boston bank robber Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck) falls for a woman his gang had previously taken hostage after feigning a chance meeting with her to ensure that she can't identify them in Affleck's adaptation of author Chuck Hogan's novel PRINCE OF THIEVES. The son of a tough Charlestown, MA thief, Doug passed on his chance to walk the straight and narrow in favor of becoming a career bank robber. Not only is Doug's crew one of the most ruthless in Boston, but they're also one of the best; they never leave a trace of evidence, and always make a clean break. Over the years, Doug's fearless partners in crime have become something of a surrogate family to him; Jem (Jeremy Renner), the most dangerous of the bunch, is the closest thing Doug has ever had to a brother. But a divide begins to open between the two career criminals when Jem takes bank manager Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall) hostage during a particularly tense heist, and the group subsequently discovers that she hails from their own tight-knit suburb. When Jem proposes that the gang make an effort to find out just how much Claire recalls about the crime, Doug fears that his volatile partner may do more harm than good and volunteers himself for the job. Later, Doug turns on the charm while pretending to bump into Claire by chance, and becomes convinced that she doesn't suspect him of being the same man who just robbed her bank. As the feds turn up the heat on the gang, Doug finds himself falling for Claire, and searching desperately for a means of cutting his ties to his criminal past. But with each passing day, Jem grows increasingly suspicious of Doug's true motivations. Now caught between two worlds with no chance of turning back, Doug realizes that his only hope for finding a happy future is to betray the only family he's ever known.
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- Sales Rank: 35,651
- UPC: 883929106288
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