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The Lookout (2007) -- Chris (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in
The Lookout (2007) -- Chris (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in

Overview

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Director:
Scott Frank
Writer (WGA):
Scott Frank (written by)
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Release Date:
30 March 2007 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama | Thriller more
Tagline:
Whoever has the money has the power
Plot:
Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
1 win & 8 nominations more
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User Comments:
An absorbing study of depression and rehabilitation more (121 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Joseph Gordon-Levitt ... Chris Pratt

Jeff Daniels ... Lewis

Matthew Goode ... Gary Spargo

Isla Fisher ... Luvlee

Carla Gugino ... Janet

Bruce McGill ... Robert Pratt

Alberta Watson ... Barbara Pratt

Alex Borstein ... Mrs. Lange

Sergio Di Zio ... Deputy Ted
David Huband ... Mr. Tuttle

Laura Vandervoort ... Kelly
Greg Dunham ... Bone

Morgan Kelly ... Marty

Aaron Berg ... Cork

Tinsel Korey ... Maura
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for language, some violence and sexual content.
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Runtime:
99 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
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DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS
Certification:
USA:R | Germany:12 | Sweden:11 | Portugal:M/12 | South Korea:15 | Singapore:NC-16 | UK:15 | Malaysia:U | Argentina:13 | Philippines:PG-13 | Finland:K-13 (video rating) (2007)
Filming Locations:
Hartney, Manitoba, Canada more
Company:
Miramax Films more

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Trivia:
To help him play a brain damaged man, Joseph Gordon-Levitt did not get much sleep and worked out hard at the gym before shooting to help him appear disoriented. He also befriended people with brain damage and read "The Man with a Shattered World: The History of a Brain Wound". more
Goofs:
Factual errors: You cannot lock the keys inside a VW Jetta. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Chris Pratt: It only happens once a year, and then they die. It's like a mating ritual or something.
Kelly: Isn't that romantic?
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Movie Connections:
Featured in "Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: (2007-03-17)" (2007) more
Soundtrack:
Monkey on Your Back more

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70 out of 111 people found the following comment useful.
An absorbing study of depression and rehabilitation, 25 March 2007
Author: John DeSando (jdesando@columbus.rr.com) from Columbus, Ohio

So you want a good heist film? See Dog Day Afternoon, as tense a study in botched robbery and kidnapping to come out of the '70's as any. Don't think the sweet Lookout will carry the same tension because it so heavily relies on the character exposition of its protagonist, Chris (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), that the heist is just an artful ending to an absorbing study of depression and rehabilitation.

Chris, a rock-star hockey player in high school, terminates that celebrity with a reckless accident that leaves him impaired emotionally and physically. So he's easy prey for a gang that entices him to help them rob a rural Kansas bank, where he is a janitor. Up to the point of the gang contacting him, Chris tries heroically to perform actions in a logical sequence. But even his family, especially his father, is impatient with his arrested development, although they are generous in financially supporting him as he goes on the mend.

Writer/director Scott Frank rarely lets Chris out of the frame, to good effect, because the actor and his lamentable past draw us into his narrow world in sympathy but not pity. Chris is determined to arrange his life in a sequence, with the help of his notebook and roomie, a blind and perceptive, bearded, guitar-playing Jeff Daniels, whose lines provide humor and balancing perspective as Chris slips into the heist. Both actors exude realistic, humorous, world weary personas that perfectly reveal the ambivalence Chris brings to this life-defining crime.

The Lookout is a small film, released at dumping time right after the Oscars, but an invigorating study of humans under stress. It begs all of us to "lookout" where we are going, either on a lonely road with our lights turned off or in a plan to steal from farmers who have made life possible.

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