
The Bank Job
Release Date: March 7, 2008
Studio: Lionsgate
Director:
Roger
Donaldson
Screenwriter:
Dick
Clement,
Ian La
Frenais
Starring:
Jason
Statham,
Saffron
Burrows,
Stephen
Campbell Moore,
Daniel Mays,
James
Faulkner,
Alki David,
Michael
Jibson,
Richard Lintern,
Don
Gallagher,
David
Suchet
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R (for sexual content,
nudity, violence, and language)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by the infamous 1971 robbery that took
place at the Lloyds Bank in Marylebone London, Lionsgate's "The Bank Job"
stars Jason Statham ("Transporter," "Snatch," "Crank," "The Italian Job")
and Saffron Burrows ("Klimt," "Enigma"). The highly-charged heist thriller
tautly interweaves high-level corruption, murder and sexual scandal in 1970s
England.
A car dealer with a dodgy past and new family, Terry (Statham) has always
avoided major-league scams. But when Martine (Burrows), a beautiful model
from his old neighborhood, offers him a lead on a foolproof bank hit on
London's Baker Street, Terry recognizes the opportunity of a lifetime.
Martine targets a roomful of safe deposit boxes worth millions in cash and
jewelry. But Terry and his crew don't realize the boxes also contain a
treasure trove of dirty secrets - secrets that will thrust them into a
deadly web of corruption and illicit scandal that spans London's criminal
underworld, the highest echelons of the British government, and the Royal
Family itself...the true story of a heist gone wrong... in all the right
ways. |