Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thieves, Suspense, Detectives, Infidelity, Outlaws, Gore, Betrayal, Revenge, Police, Marriage, Tragedy, Murder, Hostage
Tagline: An epic tale of crime and obsession and two men on opposite sides of the law.
Plot: "Never have anything in your life you can't walk out on in thirty seconds..." is the motto of expert thief Neil McCauley (De Niro). After his next break-in, McCauley plans to retire from his outlaw life and move to New Zealand. However, Vincent Hanna (Pacino), a Los Angeles police detective, obsessively tracks McCauley's gang of thieves, who have left three security guards dead in an armored truck robbery. As the detective gets closer to tracking them down, the crooks plan another big heist, this time at a bank. Hanna soon gets a lead that helps him determine the identity of the criminal mastermind who engineered the thefts, and discovers McCauley is a man as driven and relentless as the detective himself.Although he doesn't have enough evidence against the thief to make an arrest, Hanna convinces McCauley to join him for coffee, at which point the two engage in casual conversation and discover that their lives are remarkably similar. However, each man makes it clear he'll kill the other if necessary. Though they know the police are closing in on them, McCauley and his men risk going through with the bank job. A violent shoot-out and car chase result, but the criminals escape. Hanna continues to pursue them unceasingly, at the expense of his already-crumbling marriage.
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| Directed by |
Michael Mann
Collateral, The Insider, The Last of the Mohicans |
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| Cast |
Al Pacino
The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, The Insider |
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 | Jon Voight
Pearl Harbor, Mission: Impossible, National Treasure |
 | Tom Sizemore
Saving Private Ryan, Pearl Harbor, Black Hawk Down |
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 | Elliot Goldenthal
Batman & Robin, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, Batman Forever |
 | Michael Brook
Affliction, An Inconvenient Truth, Albino Alligator | |
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