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9.1/10   33 votes
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Writer:
Scott Smith (writer)
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Crime only pays when you work alone.
Plot:
A safecracker is double-crossed by a gang of bankrobbers and must outwit them to steal back his share of the loot. full summary | add synopsis
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Superb casting - recommended more (26 total)

Cast

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Brian Battisti ... Mazeroski

Aydin Bikul ... Luis
Jahnika Blythe ... Teesha
Leona Butler ... Tom Shannon
Malcolm Dotson ... Wakefield
Joe Greenan ... Jackie
D. Michael Kane ... Stempel

John Kovacevich ... Cooper

Joe Mazza ... Billy
Cory McAbee ... Charlie
Frank Montelongo ... Frankie Jr.
Tony Morrissey ... Tiny
Vernon Nellis ... Bertuccio

Jon Polito ... Freddy Boon
Ray Ward ... Medford
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USA:93 min
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All of the graffiti backgrounds in the movie were spray-painted by underground artist David Choe. more

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1 out of 1 people found the following review useful.
Superb casting - recommended, 13 March 2005
9/10
Author: J G (garamendi14) from Los Angeles

Everyone is excellent in this non-stop indie. McAbee plays it taunt as a sketchy burglar, who strings along a C-list of incompetents to exact his revenge plot. Every actor is almost pitch perfect for the parts they play and the movie was very enjoyable overall. Newcomer Kane is suitably menacing as Stempel, and in my mind, this is as much his movie as McAbee's. Mr. Polito has to be one of my favorite actors working today, and his small scenes are laced with a slow leaking tension that literally comes around later in the film when a tea kettle starts its long wail. Throughout, there's a cloud of impending doom - sometimes it's real suspense, other times it's more like melancholy. But this festival film has to be one of the best 'don't tread on me' type movies in the last few years. Strong performances. Big laughs. Great quotable lines. Real moments of suspense. Some foul language. But HIGHLY recommended.

My Grade: A

Where I saw it: Cinequest

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