Four young men mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious heists in U.S. history.Four young men mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious heists in U.S. history.Four young men mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious heists in U.S. history.
- Awards
- 10 wins & 22 nominations
Betty Jean Gooch
- The Real Betty Jean 'BJ' Gooch
- (as Betty Jean 'BJ' Gooch)
Karen Wheeling Reynolds
- Female Art Professor
- (as Karen Reynolds)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDuring filming the actors were not allowed to meet their real life counterparts because the director feared they would sympathise and/or play them in a certain light.
- GoofsAt the end of the movie, when it is explaining what each character is up to now, the text says that Charles Allen II is "writing a book on prison workout regimes." Some people regard this as a mistake and think the word should be "regimens". However, all major dictionaries recognize the use of "regime" to mean "regimen".
- Quotes
Warren Lipka: You're taught your entire life that what you do matters and that you're special. And that, there are things you can point towards that would... which'll show that you're special, that show you're different, when, in all reality, those things... don't matter. And you're not special.
- Crazy creditsPreceding the opening credits is this quote: "We must suppose that American animals...slowly migrated by successive generations from the outer world into the deeper and deeper recesses of the Kentucky caves." Attribution is to Charles Darwin, from his seminal work, "On the Origin of Species."
- ConnectionsFeatured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Amazing Movies You Missed This Spring (2018)
- SoundtracksSound of da Police
Written by Showbiz (as Rodney Lemay), KRS-One (as Lawrence Parker), Eric Burdon, Chas Chandler (as Bryan Chandler), Alan Lomax
Performed by KRS-One
Published by Universal Music Publishing Ltd.
Used by kind permission of Carlin Music Corp.
By permission of Concord Music Publishing
Courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment Inc. Licensed by Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
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It could have been much better
This is novice director/writer Bart Layton's first full length film - previous credits are mainly documentaries, and this was the downfall for this film.
The almost 2 hour length felt like 3 hours and really dragged out with the overly slow pace and unnecessary slo-mo scenes. Adding the real characters made this film feel like part documentary part film, which was annoying. It took away from the stories suspense and thrill as well as the great acting from the lead cast.
Not sure why Bart chose this route, but had he not done so, this film would have been much better. The actual characters should have been introduced towards the end, or as an extra featurette in the DVD release, and he should have just focused on the films story instead of breaking the suspense each time the real life characters popped up.
The almost 2 hour length felt like 3 hours and really dragged out with the overly slow pace and unnecessary slo-mo scenes. Adding the real characters made this film feel like part documentary part film, which was annoying. It took away from the stories suspense and thrill as well as the great acting from the lead cast.
Not sure why Bart chose this route, but had he not done so, this film would have been much better. The actual characters should have been introduced towards the end, or as an extra featurette in the DVD release, and he should have just focused on the films story instead of breaking the suspense each time the real life characters popped up.
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- Top_Dawg_Critic
- Aug 15, 2018
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- Also known as
- Amerikan Soygunu
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- Production companies
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,856,954
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $134,793
- Jun 3, 2018
- Gross worldwide
- $4,080,073
- Runtime1 hour 56 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2:39 : 1
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