DVD: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

[AnalBreeze]

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Product Details

Actors: Albert Finney, Rosemary Harris, Ethan Hawke, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei

Directors: Sidney Lumet

Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen

Language: English

Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Number of discs: 1

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Studio: IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT

DVD Release Date: April 15, 2008

Run Time: 112 minutes

[AnalBreeze]

I think this movie looks great!

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Amazon.com
Sidney Lumet’s Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead is an exceptionally dark story about a crime gone wrong and the complicated reasons behind it. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke are outstanding as brothers whose mutual love-hate relationship subtly colors their agreement to rob their own parents’ jewelry store, and more explicitly affects the anxious aftermath of their villainy when their mother (Rosemary Harris) ends up shot. Hoffman’s steely, emotionally locked-up Andy, despite pulling down six figures as a corporate executive, is supporting an expensive drug habit while trying to leave the country with his depressed wife, Gina (Marisa Tomei). Hank (Hawke), a whipped dog of low intelligence, owes back alimony and child support to his ex-spouse. Both men need money and agree to rip off their parents' business, a decision that goes awry and puts both men in various kinds of jeopardy while their mother remains comatose and their father (Albert Finney) lurches along trying to make sense of anything. Writer Kelly Masterson's screenplay employs a perhaps now-overly-familiar time-shifting tactic, jumping around the chronology of the story's events and replaying scenes from different vantage points. The effect is a little tedious but successfully deconstructs the film's drama in a way that shows how such terrible events are directly linked to family dysfunction, old wounds between parent and child, between siblings, that fester into full-blown tragedy. Eighty-three-year-old director Lumet (Serpico) employs bleached colors and scenes of blunt sexuality and violence, adding to the moral rudderlessness and banality of this airless world. If Devil feels a little reductive and insistently grim, it is also a generally persuasive work by an old master. --Tom Keogh

[KillBill20]

I've been looking forward to this one for a while now. I can't wait to watch it!

~Kyle

[dop]

Anybody here seen it? it just opened in my favorite 20 pesos cinema(thats like a dollar fiddy) so I was thinking of going later today, its either that or Eastern Promisses wich ive seen but not on the cinema...

[Horrorholic]

Anybody here seen it?

Yeah, its good. Seeing Marisa Tomei's tits alone is worth the $1.50.

[dop]

Maaaan, I loved this one, the editing is amazing and the story griped me by the balls and didnt let go, nearly everyone of the characters in this movie is scum yet such a good script and acting leaves you having empathy for them. No easy task.

And well... yea, Tomei's tits were definatley worth the ticket alone, I had to go to IMDB to see if I remembered her being in her mid 40s rigth, what a flawless rocking body.

[AnalBreeze]

No kidding, right!
Never seen her naked before and Holy Cow...
she's like nude the whole film! And looking very good I might add!

Pretty good movie also!

[Athena]

Huh. You know, I picked this movie up last night, read the back, and chose to walk away from it. Perhaps its synopsys does it little justice? I may have to revisit this one.

[AnalBreeze]

If you go to Imdb and look this movie up, Everyone hates it!
I thought it was great and would watch it again or buy it! Give it a shot! ;)

[Athena]

Yeah...I wouldn't go to Imdb or Rotten Tomato or anything to gauge a movie by the reviews. I stick to sites like this and BD because I figure folks these places have taste similar to mine, so their reviews will be more applicable. :)