Tower Heist (2011)

Cast: Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck, Alan Alda, Matthew Broderick, Judd Hirsch

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Description: Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy lead an all-star cast in Tower Heist, a comedy caper about working stiffs who seek revenge on the Wall Street swindler who stiffed them. After the workers at a luxury Central Park condominium discover the penthouse billionaire has stolen their retirement, they plot the ultimate revenge: a heist to reclaim what he took from them. Queens native Josh Kovacs (Stiller) has managed one of the most luxurious and well-secured residences in New York City for more than a decade. Under his watchful eye, nothing goes undetected. In the swankiest unit atop Josh's building, Wall Street titan Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda) is under house arrest after being caught stealing two billion from his investors. The hardest hit among those he defrauded? The tower staffers whose pensions he was entrusted to manage. With only days before Arthur gets away with the perfect crime, Josh's crew turns to petty crook Slide (Murphy) to plan the nearly impossible to steal what they are sure is hidden in Arthur's guarded condo. Though amateurs, these rookie thieves know the building better than anyone. Turns out they've been casing the place for years, they just didn't know it.

Release Date: 11/4/2011

Genre: Comedy

Studio: Universal Pictures

Offical Website: http://www.towerheist.net

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Release Dates:

Country	Release Type	Date
United States	Theatrical Wide Release	11/4/2011
Italy	Theatrical Wide Release	11/25/2011
United Kingdom	Theatrical Wide Release	11/4/2011
Spain	Theatrical Wide Release	11/4/2011
United States	DVD/Blu-ray Release	2/21/2012

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11/06/2011 @ 12:00 AM

Cheerfully crappy schlock.

Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com

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11/04/2011 @ 12:00 AM

Made me laugh and held my interest more than it should have, given how sloppy it is. Call it an acceptable bit of B-minus work from a C student.

Eric D. Snider, Film.com

So what if it's sheer petty escapist enjoyment? Tower Heist delivers the laughs in desperate times.

Tom Long, Detroit News

Alan Alda plays the billionaire, and his oleaginous smarm is so good that you almost wish Alda were starring in a hard-edged movie about Madoff instead of this goofy heist picture that takes way too long getting to the heist.

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor

This is, of course, Hollywood schlock, directed by shlock-master Brett Ratner. But it's also a surprisingly effective social drama.

Robert Levin, The Atlantic

Highly recommended if you want to watch an assortment of rich movie stars feel your pain.

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader

The latest comedy-action film from director Brad Ratner is a shaggy affair, but it's intermittently inspired in its action sequences and the comic business of its sprawling cast.

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

Between the protracted setup and the fizzled execution, however, Tower Heist finds a nice comic groove in the job's planning stages, when Murphy finally bursts onto the scene and pings jokes off his timid counterparts.

Scott Tobias, NPR

You really want these poor schlubs to get their very justified revenge - just like you want to like this movie. It co-opts you from the very start.

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

Tower Heist feigns being an Ocean's 11 for schmucks, but plays like a retread of 48 Hours.

Scott Bowles, USA Today

\Tower Heist\ is an improbably satisfying action comedy, the kind of wax-on-wax-off, slickly machined Hollywood widget that meets its audience's expectations without once aspiring to exceed them.

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

It's a cunningly engineered movie that's as much fun as \Ocean's 11,\ a tale of a Renoir of ripoff who matches skills with freewheeling, improvisational rivals -- the Jackson Pollocks of plunder.

Kyle Smith, New York Post

Another thing Ratner is good at is not wasting our time when he runs out of ideas. But he leaves us smiling, if not believing our own eyes.

Peter Howell, Toronto Star

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11/03/2011 @ 12:00 AM

The most that can be said for Tower Heist, the new action comedy from Brett Ratner, is that it's a middlingly well-done evocation of the big-budget caper you remember with vague fondness from long-ago matinees at the mall.

Dana Stevens, Slate

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Brett Ratner In Talks For Midnight Run 2

He may direct the developing sequel Depending on your feelings towards the man and his films, this news will either have you high-fiving the nearest available pet / loved one / friend / stranger or contemplating building an apocalypse shelter out of old tin cans and cardboard boxes: Brett Ratner is now in negotiations to direct Universals long-gestating Midnight Run sequel. The return of Robert De Niro (who has been looking to make this happen for a while now) and Charles Grodins mismatched buddy comedy duo is a truly divisive issue. Some are itching to see more of Jack Walsh and Jonathan Mardukas while others would prefer that all involved simply be happy with the 1998 original. Universal is ploughing ahead with the idea, which, if pulled off well, could be one for the ages. Role Models co-writer Tim Dowling was hired early in 2010 to punch out a draft, but now De Niro (Read More)

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