Word: heist
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...boss as a menacing, broad-shouldered man's man takes a hit in the new thriller Confidence, in which DUSTIN HOFFMAN portrays a quirky crime king of questionable sexuality. Hoffman's character, the King, hires a con man played by Ed Burns to perform a complex heist. "[The director, writer and I] tried to figure out how I could achieve this sense of a frightening character," Hoffman says, "and the idea of sexual ambiguity intrigued me." Hoffman also took some inspiration from choreographer Bob Fosse, with whom he worked on 1974's Lenny. In a Confidence scene that Hoffman improvised...
...GOOD THIEF. Neil Jordan, who hasn’t directed a feature since 1999’s The End of the Affair, ends his absence with this heist film, based upon Jean-Pierre Melville’s jazzy 1955 noir Bob le Flambeur. Nick Nolte, who weathered a well-publicized DUI arrest last year, does nothing to rehabilitate his image by starring as a graying, heroin-addicted gambler who tries to rob a casino. Holding the film together are a passel of modern noir/heist elements—the prostitute, the chummy detective, the technology whiz, exotic locations and lush cinematography...
...GOOD THIEF. Neil Jordan, who hasn’t directed a feature since 1999’s The End of the Affair, ends his absence with this heist film, based upon Jean-Pierre Melville’s jazzy 1955 noir Bob le Flambeur. Nick Nolte, who weathered a well-publicized DUI arrest last year, does nothing to rehabilitate his image by starring as a graying, heroin-addicted gambler who tries to rob a casino. Holding the film together are a passel of modern noir/heist elements—the prostitute, the chummy detective, the technology whiz, exotic locations and lush cinematography...
...eyes of much of the world, Sheriff Bush has become an outlaw cowboy. With a posse of American capitalists, Bush wants a bloody shootout and sizable heist that will ruffle petticoats across the global village...
...Dark Man X, n?e Earl Simmons) has a few platinum CDs, including It's Dark and Hell Is Hot, and a tattoo on his back that elegizes his pet dog. Here he plays Tony Fate, a gentleman thief whose latest heist, a handful of black diamonds, gets him in trouble with some mean malefactors (Hawaii-born Mark Dacascos and Kelly Hu). The black diamonds turn out to be plutonium pellets that could Destroy the World. DMX has charisma enough for the job, performing tough scenes and teary ones with equal facility...