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The Bank Job (2008)

R  |   |  Crime, Drama, Thriller  |  7 March 2008 (USA)
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Martine offers Terry a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London's Baker Street. She 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.

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Storyline

Business is slow for Terry Leather, a London car dealer, married with children. He's an artful dodger, so Martine, a former model with a thing for him, brings him her scheme: a bank's alarm is off for a couple weeks, so let's tunnel into the vault. He assembles a team, not realizing her real goal is a safe-deposit box with compromising photos of a royal: she needs the photos to trade for avoiding a jail sentence - and MI-5, or is it MI-6, is pulling the strings two steps removed. A Trinidadian thug, a high-end bordello owner, and a pornographer also have things stored in the vault, so the break-in threatens many a powerful personage. Is there any way these amateurs can pull it off? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>

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The true story of a heist gone wrong... in all the right ways.

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Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Release Date:

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Also Known As:

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Box Office

Budget:

$20,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£951,013 (UK) (29 February 2008)

Gross:

$30,028,592 (USA) (30 May 2008)
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Mick Jagger:  As a bank employee. See more »

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The underground train used in the film would have been used only on the newly opened Victoria Line and would have looked brand new in 1971. In 1971, both the Northern Line (Tottenham Court Road) and Bakerloo Line (Edgware Road to Paddington) would have had red underground trains possibly dating from the 1930s to the 1950s. See more »

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Eddie Burton: [while drilling a mileage meter back] Another Terry Leather low mileage gem.
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References Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983) See more »

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History of Jamaica
Written by Erlando Neil & Nkrumah Manley Thomas
Performed by Early B
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Administered by Universal Music Publishing Pty Ltd
Licensed Courtesy of Acid Jazz Records
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26 February 2008 | by (United Kingdom) – See all my reviews

I'm old enough to remember this robbery well, and the film does a great credit to a very true story, Jason Statham is Terry a very small time hood with a car lot (like Arthur Daly) who get lured into this bank Job by one time girl friend Martine (Safron Burrows-who l saw in Enigma) she is very beautiful, along with some mates they do the robbery, masterminded by Peter Bowels, a long way from his smooth Richard De Vere days in To The Manor Born, mind you he's still smoothie in this film, also along for the ride is David Suchet as a London Porn King, and Georgia Taylor one of the Battersby girls from Coronation Street. The film moves at a hell of a pace, and slowly builds to a great climax, l don't want to give away any of the plot all l can say is go and see this film, l admit l went to a pre-release night, but l might even go and see it again it's that good, l give it 9 out of 10


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