I saw "Going in Style", starring Morgan Freeman-The Dark Knight movies, Unforgiven; Michael Caine-The Dark Knight movies, Miss Congeniality; Alan Arkin-Million Dollar Arm, Little Miss Sunshine and Ann Margret-Old Dogs, Viva Las Vegas.
This is a geriatric heist comedy that is a remake of a 1979 film of the same name-it starred George Burns, Art Carney & Lee Strasberg. In the original, the old timers were resorting to robbing a bank because of boredom and wanting to feel young again. In this version, they are forced into a criminal life because of necessity-they need the money because they have lost their pensions. Morgan, Michael & Alan are the 3 old friends on fixed incomes that decide to rob the bank that is foreclosing on Michael's house. Ann plays a woman at the local grocery store that likes Alan. One of the funniest scenes is when the guys decide to do a trail run on the grocery store, in preparation for robbing the bank-they try to steal groceries. They are not very good at it and decide to get help from a professional thief who gets them into shape. It's not laugh out loud funny but it is entertaining and I smiled a lot. It is directed by Zach Braff, who was an actor in Garden State & Scrubs_tv. It's rated "PG-13" for drug content, language and sexual content-no nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 36 minutes. I enjoyed it enough that I would buy it on DVD.
This is a geriatric heist comedy that is a remake of a 1979 film of the same name-it starred George Burns, Art Carney & Lee Strasberg. In the original, the old timers were resorting to robbing a bank because of boredom and wanting to feel young again. In this version, they are forced into a criminal life because of necessity-they need the money because they have lost their pensions. Morgan, Michael & Alan are the 3 old friends on fixed incomes that decide to rob the bank that is foreclosing on Michael's house. Ann plays a woman at the local grocery store that likes Alan. One of the funniest scenes is when the guys decide to do a trail run on the grocery store, in preparation for robbing the bank-they try to steal groceries. They are not very good at it and decide to get help from a professional thief who gets them into shape. It's not laugh out loud funny but it is entertaining and I smiled a lot. It is directed by Zach Braff, who was an actor in Garden State & Scrubs_tv. It's rated "PG-13" for drug content, language and sexual content-no nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 36 minutes. I enjoyed it enough that I would buy it on DVD.