Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, and Marisa Tomei star in director Sidney Lumet's thriller concerning two brothers who hatch a plan to rob their parent's jewelry store. When the job goes awry, the entire family is set on a collision course with tragedy. Andy (Hoffman) is an ...more

Heists aren't solely the territory of slick crime lords and Tarantino characters. Unschooled amateurs, those clueless oafs you see being cuffed and driven away in cop cars on the six o'clock news, also dabble in robbery, usually with far less panache, as is the case in Sidney Lumet's Before The Devil Knows You're Dead. Andy (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Hank Hanson (Ethan Hawke) are the latter, a pair of down on their luck brothers who devise a haphazard plan to stick up their parents' suburban ...more