Focus

20152015
RR
1h 45min

Will Smith and Margot Robbie in Focus (2015)

Focus

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Comedy Crime Drama

In the midst of veteran con man Nicky's latest scheme, a woman from his past - now an accomplished femme fatale - shows up and throws his plans for a loop.In the midst of veteran con man Nicky's latest scheme, a woman from his past - now an accomplished femme fatale - shows up and throws his plans for a loop.In the midst of veteran con man Nicky's latest scheme, a woman from his past - now an accomplished femme fatale - shows up and throws his plans for a loop.

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Awards
- 3 nominations

Will Smith and Margot Robbie in Focus (2015)

Will Smith and Margot Robbie in Focus (2015)

Margot Robbie in Focus (2015)

Will Smith in Focus (2015)

Margot Robbie in Focus (2015)

Rodrigo Santoro in Focus (2015)

Rodrigo Santoro and Margot Robbie in Focus (2015)

Will Smith and Margot Robbie in Focus (2015)

BD Wong in Focus (2015)

BD Wong and Margot Robbie in Focus (2015)

Gerald McRaney and Rodrigo Santoro in Focus (2015)

Will Smith in Focus (2015)

Margot Robbie Through the Years

Margot Robbie Through the Years

Take a look back at Margot Robbie's career on and off the screen.

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Hitch

6.6

The Pursuit of Happyness

8.0

The Pursuit of Happyness

Hancock

6.4

Now You See Me

7.2

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

6.5

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Australian Psycho

6.6

Australian Psycho

Now You See Me 2

6.5

Now You See Me 2

Lucy

6.4

I Am Legend

7.2

Focus

6.7

The Hangover

7.7

Seven Pounds

7.6

Nicky Spurgeon is an extremely accomplished con man who takes an amateur con artist, Jess, under his wing. Nicky and Jess become romantically involved, and with Nicky's profession of being a liar and a cheater for a living, he realizes that deception and love are things that don't go together. They split, only to see each other three years later... And things get messy.

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Taglines
- Never Drop The Con.
Genres
Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated R for language, some sexual content and brief violence
Parents guide

Trivia
Margot Robbie was vacationing with her brother on an island in Croatia when she got the call that the directors wanted her to audition. She had arrived at the hotel at 6 a.m., and needed to catch a flight the same day. She packed everything in 20 minutes and took a catamaran to the main island, then a bus to the airport. She waited in the airport for six hours, flew to France, then got a six-hour flight to New York. When she arrived in New York, she found out her luggage had been lost. However, she got to the audition on time, wearing denim shorts, a t-shirt, and no makeup. When Will Smith arrived late, saying he "was coming from Queens", Robbie said "Yeah? Well, I just came from an island off Croatia and I'm here on time." Robbie believes that reply got her the role.

Goofs
When Farhad arrives to Buenos Aires and talks to Jess about being a lesbian, she holds a white cup on her right hand. Immediately after Farhad says that "every time she speaks he smells vagina", Jess isn't holding the cup anymore, but it reappears in the next cut.

Quotes
Nicky: It's about distraction. It's about focus. The brain is slow and it can't multitask. Tap him here, take from there.

Connections
Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Will Smith/Rosamund Pike/Jack White (2015)

Soundtracks
I'm A Manchild
Written and Performed by Bruno Hovart
Courtesy of Soulab Records

Top review

7/10

Never drop the con.

Focus is a con movie and it's at its best when it's trying to con you into believing you know what is going to happen. The plot unfolds at a steady pace and you are left guessing what is going to follow. There are many twists and it's hard to keep up, as you would expect.

The regular cons work best in the first half, when the movie is trying to be fun and entertaining. During the second half of the movie the plot deepens and works around character development. That's when Will Smith and Margot Robbie come to life, they are at their best when they are given more to work with and they keep the movie interesting. However the movie gets caught juggling too many cons which by the end of the movie may feel just a bit flat; but still make for an unexpected and enjoyable finale.

Definitely worth watching. PS. The directors did a good job showing the importance of FOCUS in keeping the camera Focused at the right place.

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pantekhis_iacovos
Mar 12, 2015

In the end scene, the piano music in the background sounds very like Keane's Somewhere only we know - but that track isn't listed in the music credits...

Budget
- $50,100,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
- $53,862,963
Opening weekend US & Canada
- $18,685,137
- Mar 1, 2015
Gross worldwide
- $158,762,963

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Runtime
- 1h 45min
Color
- Color
Sound mix
- Dolby Digital
- Datasat
Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1

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