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Overview
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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Russell Gewirtz (written by)
Release Date:
24 March 2006 (USA)
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Tagline:
It looked like the perfect bank robbery. But you can't judge a crime by its cover.
Plot:
A cop has to talk down a bank robber after the criminal's perfect heist spirals into a hostage situation. full summary | full synopsis
Plot Keywords:
Bank
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Detective
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Hostage
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Safe Deposit
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Negotiation
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Awards:
4 wins
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7 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(90 articles)
Fuqua & Spike Lee Adapting 'Miss: Better Living Through Crime'
(From FirstShowing.net. 18 November 2009, 12:02 PM, PST)
Antoine Fuqua and Spike Lee Team Up for Adaptation of Graphic Novel Miss: Better Living Through Crime
(From Collider.com. 17 November 2009, 10:39 PM, PST)
(From FirstShowing.net. 18 November 2009, 12:02 PM, PST)
Antoine Fuqua and Spike Lee Team Up for Adaptation of Graphic Novel Miss: Better Living Through Crime
(From Collider.com. 17 November 2009, 10:39 PM, PST)
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High time the academy gives Spike Lee some respect!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Denzel Washington | ... | Detective Keith Frazier |
 | Clive Owen | ... | Dalton Russell |
 | Jodie Foster | ... | Madeleine White |
 | Christopher Plummer | ... | Arthur Case |
 | Willem Dafoe | ... | Captain John Darius |
 | Chiwetel Ejiofor | ... | Detective Bill Mitchell |
 | Carlos Andrés Gómez | ... | Steve |
 | Kim Director | ... | Stevie |
 | James Ransone | ... | Steve-O |
 | Bernie Rachelle | ... | Chaim (as Bernard Rachelle) |
 | Peter Gerety | ... | Captain Coughlin |
| Victor Colicchio | ... | Sergeant Collins |
| Cassandra Freeman | ... | Sylvia |
| Peter Frechette | ... | Peter Hammond |
| Gerry Vichi | ... | Herman Gluck |
Additional Details
MPAA:
Rated R for language and some violent images.
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Runtime:
129 min | Turkey:116 min (TV version)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
USA:R |
Ireland:15A |
UK:15 |
Germany:12 |
Australia:MA |
Netherlands:12 |
Iceland:16 |
South Korea:15 |
Finland:K-15 |
Hong Kong:IIB |
Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) |
Denmark:11 |
Brazil:14 |
Argentina:13 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Malaysia:18PL |
Malaysia:U (edited version) |
Sweden:11 |
Hungary:16 |
Italy:T |
Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) |
Singapore:NC-16 (re-rating) |
Singapore:PG (cut) |
Mexico:B15
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Trivia:
Spike Lee decided to cast Amir Ali Said after watching him perform in a "Chappelle's Show" (2003) skit.
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Goofs:
Continuity: In the end when Frazier returns home to his girlfriend, his lapel badge changes from one lapel to the other
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Quotes:
[first lines]
Dalton Russell: My name is Dalton Russell. Pay strict attention to what I say because I choose my words carefully and I never repeat myself. I've told you my name: that's the Who. The Where could most readily be described as a prison cell. But there's a vast difference between being stuck in a tiny cell and being in prison...
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Dalton Russell: My name is Dalton Russell. Pay strict attention to what I say because I choose my words carefully and I never repeat myself. I've told you my name: that's the Who. The Where could most readily be described as a prison cell. But there's a vast difference between being stuck in a tiny cell and being in prison...
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Inside Men: Denzel & Spike - Man to Man (2006) (TV)
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Soundtrack:
Chaiyya Chaiyya - Bollywood Joint
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FAQ
What is the music used in the opening credits?How did the robbers learn of Arthur Case's dark past?
Why do the robbers dig a hole in the storeroom?
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Whether I was into the subject or not, there's always a filmmaker at work in a Spike Lee film... he's one moviemaker who never loses sight of being a filmmaker first and foremost, and he's absolutely outdone himself with INSIDE MAN, a taut thriller which avoids the colloquialism that alienated mainstream audiences from some of his earlier work.
If you've seen the trailer or heard anything about this pic, you have been misled. Everything I heard left me feeling like yeah, OK, I'm going for Denzel. Denzel vs. Clive Owen will be interesting.
From the first shots and opening credits, you are submerged in artistic vision, and a finely honed piece of work the likes of which I haven't seen in years. I'd almost give this one a ten.. and I don't hand out tens freely. I do not want to spoil this. You have to walk in cold, and let this film grab you by the short and curlies.
This is one film where there isn't a spare frame or wasted cheap shot. Every zinger zings, and there are laughs too, laughs at merciful intervals to break the tension and remind an audience on the edges of its seats that movie-going's supposed to be entertaining, dammit. The cinematography is brilliant, and the music is fantastic - true cinematic score, true genius. I can't praise this one enough.
Christopher Plummer is superb, in what is (perhaps coincidentally) an ironic bit of casting. Jodie Foster rises to a challenging persona with aplomb and ease, and my only complaint of the entire exercise is that her character's name 'Madeline White' is perhaps a little cliché. Beyond that, there isn't a filmmaker alive who brings New York to the screen with anything approximating Spike Lee's vision.
It seems there hasn't been a lot of junket for this one, and that Spike Lee's presence has been downplayed... as if the studio downplayed the fact that this is a Spike Lee film slightly, until the word was out that this film is over and beyond what an audience might already expect from one of his films.
So... let me just say.. man o man this is a cinematic mind-blowing amazing one and a half hours... it's brilliant, tight, funny, articulate, intense, and high time the academy gives Spike Lee some respect.