Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

Director:

Sidney Lumet

Guionista (WGA):

Kelly Masterson (written by)

Release Date:

26 septiembre 2007 (France)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

Frase comercial:

No one was supposed to get hurt.

Plot:

When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelery store the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that sends them, their father and one brother's wife hurtling towards a shattering climax.

Plot Keywords:

Pillow | Drug Use | Doggystyle Sex | Nonlinear Timeline | Filicide

Awards:

5 wins & 11 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

In a back-and-forth style, Sydney Lumet's psychological crime thriller is good to watch…

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Cast

Philip Seymour Hoffman	...	Andrew 'Andy' Hanson
Ethan Hawke	...	Henry 'Hank' Hanson
Albert Finney	...	Charles Hanson
Marisa Tomei	...	Gina Hanson
Rosemary Harris	...	Nanette Hanson
Aleksa Palladino	...	Chris Lasorda
Michael Shannon	...	Dex
Amy Ryan	...	Martha Hanson
Brian F. O'Byrne	...	Bobby Lasorda
Blaine Horton	...	Justin
Arija Bareikis	...	Katherine
Leonardo Cimino	...	William
Lee Wilkof	...	Jake
Damon Gupton	...	Doctor
Adrian Martinez	...	Security Guard

También conocida como:

Antes que el diablo sepa que estás muerto (Argentina) (festival title) [es]
Antes que el diablo sepa que has muerto (Mexico) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for a scene of strong graphic sexuality, nudity, violence, drug use and language.

Duración:

117 min | Canada:123 min (Toronto International Film Festival)

País:

USA | UK

Idioma:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Clasificación:

USA:R | Germany:16 | Finland:K-15 | Sweden:15 | Taiwan:R-18 | UK:15 | Ireland:16 | Italy:VM14 | Malaysia:18PL | Argentina:16 | Canada:18A | Australia:MA | France:U

Filming Locations:

Bayside, Queens, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Linsefilm

Trivialidades:

In the original script, Gina and Andrew Hanson had a child. Sidney Lumet removed this character from the final script.

Goofs:

Factual errors: When Charles phones the police department looking for Detective Barrett to check up on his wife's case, the phone is answered by the greeting "22nd Precinct". The 22nd Precinct is the NYPD Central Park Precinct in Manhattan. Follow-up on a case out of Westchester, where the crime took place, would either be a Brooklyn precinct since we learned that Bobby LaSorda was from Red Hook, Brooklyn or with the Midtown North Precinct (also known as the 18th), the home of NYC's diamond district, the most likely known destination for the would-be stolen loot within local NY law enforcement. There would be no reason to phone the Central Park Precinct.

Quotes:

Andrew 'Andy' Hanson: The thing about real estate accounting is that you can, you can, add down the page or across the page and everything works out. Everyday, everything adds up. The, the total is always the sum of its parts. It's, uh, clean. It's clear. Neat, absolute. But my life, it, uh, it doesn't add up. It, uh... Nothing connects to anything else. It's, uh... I'm not, I'm not the sum of my parts. All my parts don't add up to one... to one me, I guess.
Justin: Get a shrink or a wife.
Andrew 'Andy' Hanson: Uh, I got a wife.
Justin: Get a shrink.

Movie Connections:

References Blame It on Rio (1984)

In a back-and-forth style, Sydney Lumet's psychological crime thriller is good to watch…

After a cold sex scene, between Andy and Gina, in South America, we know that Andy is a payroll manager who finds himself in a hard economic situation where he badly needs some extra money… We also discover that he has been stealing from his job and using the money to his drug habits… He's also attempting to keep up with his wife, who just might be having an affair…

To solve all their problems, he persuades his brother—a likable loser—to join him in a plan to steal their own parent's small store… Their parents are happily married and proprietors of a jewelry store situated in New York's Westchester County… Sixty thousand dollars is all they'll need to get their life out of desperation…

Three main characters are important in this movie…

First the two brothers… Each of them is a complex individual, threatened with multiple motivations, and sunk into doubts and disappointments… The two are desperate characters, financially and emotionally…

Andy is selfish… He feels that he has never had the love of his father… He is the corrupting influence, turning his brother into an assailant, and his beautiful woman into an adulteress…

Hank is a puppet too weak to resist his brother's wishes… His ex-wife is one of the reasons he needs money as he owes her hundreds in child support…. He longs to regain the confidence he once had with his father…

The third character is their weary and deplorable father Charles Hanson (Albert Finney), especially in the haunting climactic scenes…

Telling you more about the details could lessen the impact of the film, and therefore the entertainment...

Tomei's performance conveys great depth and emotion even with her look, her touch, her particular move…

Lumet's direction is firm, fresh and brutal.