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Subscribe to weekly newsletter » Casey Affleck, Matthew Broderick, Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy and a Ferrari. times & tickets Tower Heist in theaters Fandango BY ROGER EBERT / November 2, 2011 Search movie The Double Le Havre showtimes and buy If it had provided me with tickets. Like Crazy nothing else, "Tower Heist" cast & credits The Son of No One would have afforded me the Tower Heist sight of a solid gold Urbanized about us automobile being lowered Josh Ben Stiller A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas from the penthouse of the Slide Eddie Murphy more current releases » About the site » Trump Tower with Matthew Charlie Casey Affleck Broderick dangling from it. Arthur Shaw Alan Alda Site FAQs » one-minute movie reviews Sometimes you appreciate Mr. Fitzhugh Matthew such simple human Broderick Contact us » still playing spectacles. To be sure, Agent Denham Tea Leoni Email the Movie Trump Tower has been Enrique Michael Pena renamed "The Tower," and Answer Man » Odessa Gabourey Sidibe Dolphin Tale the man dangling from the Amigo Mr. Simon Judd Hirsch car isn't the Donald, but this Anonymous is an imperfect world. Bellflower on sale now Universal Pictures presents a film The Big Year This isn't a great heist directed by Brett Ratner. Written by Blackthorn movie for a lot of reasons, Ted Griffin and Jeff Nathanson. Boy Wonder beginning with the stupidity Running time: 104 minutes. Rated Brighton Rock Chasing Madoff of its heist plan and the PG-13 (for language and sexual impossibility of these Circumstance content). Conan the Barbarian characters ever being Contagion successful at anything more Printer-friendly » The Debt complex than standing in E-mail this to a friend » Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame line. There also is the Don't Be Afraid of the Dark Buy now » problem with Ben Stiller The Double being cast as the hero: He Drive was born to play the victim 50/50 of heists, not the gang leader. He's going against type. The victim Fireflies in the Garden here is played by Alan Alda, who is so loathsome he'd make a 5 Days of War dartboard for OWS parties. Footloose Fright Night Quibble, quibble. The movie is broad and clumsy, and the dialogue Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life cannot be described as witty, but a kind of grandeur creeps into the George Harrison: Living in the Material World A Good Old-Fashioned Orgy screenplay by Ted Griffin and Jeff Nathanson. It's the kind of story Buy now » Happy Happy where the executives at a pitch meeting feel they're being Le Havre bludgeoned over the head with box-office dollars. There is also the The Hedgehog novelty that here is a comedy that doesn't go heavy on the Higher Ground excremental, the masturbatory and symphonies of four-letter words. The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) Zero stars It's funny in an innocent screwball kind of way. The Ides of March In Time The story: Josh Kovacs (Ben Stiller) is the perfectionist building Jamie and Jessie are Not Together manager at the most luxurious condo skyscraper in New York, which Killer Elite providentially is on Columbus Circle, in the exact footprint of Trump Life, Above All Buy now » Tower. His team works flawlessly, beginning with the beloved Like Crazy doorman Lester (Stephen Henderson). The penthouse is owned by littlerock Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda), a financial wheeler-dealer, whose walls Love Crime Machine Gun Preacher display priceless modern art. His most prized possession is a bright Margin Call red 1953 Ferrari, once owned by Steve McQueen. It was taken apart Martha Marcy May Marlene piece by piece, he explains to FBI agent Claire Denham (Tea Leoni), Mighty Macs and assembled there. The Mill and the Cross Moneyball The FBI is on the job because Shaw has been running a Ponzi Mozart's Sister scheme, and among his loot are the pension plan and investments of Munger Road Buy now » the tower's employees. So dear old Lester and all the others are My Afternoons With Marguerite penniless. Enraged, Kovacs recruits a team to break into the Mysteries of Lisbon apartment. They're looking for a wall safe, but then discover Shaw's Norman Ferrari is solid gold: $65 million is hidden in plain sight. Obviously, One Day this requires stealing the car from the penthouse, where there's no One Lucky Elephant door or elevator that can handle it. Oranges and Sunshine Our Idiot Brother Paranormal Activity 3 The team: Lester, of course; Mr. Fitzhugh (Broderick), who is jobless, Phunny Business: A Black Comedy broke, has lost his family and being evicted from the building, and Puncture Buy now » characters played by Casey Affleck, Michael Pena, Gabourey Sidibe Rapt (her second film since her Oscar nomination) as a Jamaican whose Real Steel father would crack safes, and — well, Kovacs decides they need Restless someone more familiar with crime and enlists Slide (Eddie Murphy), a Resurrect Dead: Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles loud-talking dude from the street in his neighborhood. Murphy, in his The Rum Diary first role since 2009, is in full Eddie Murphy mode, with comic riffs Senna and astonished double takes. Seven Days in Utopia Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness I won't describe how they plan to get the car out of the building, The Skin I Live In especially as the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is passing directly The Son of No One Buy now » Special Treatment below. But let me share with you that I suffer from a fear of heights, Straw Dogs and the last thing you could get me to do is stand next to an open Take Shelter window on an floor upper of a high-rise and try to reach out and grab Texas Killing Fields a Ferrari. The notion that no one would notice a bright red car being The Thing lowered from the tower is preposterous, but realism is not the point. Tower Heist This movie would fall to pieces if it didn't hurtle headlong through its Trespass absurdist plot without ever pausing for explanations. Tucker and Dale vs. Evil Urbanized A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas Buy now» Viva Riva! 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