![]() JOIN NOW Last day to watch on Netflix: July 1 Tower Heist Comedy Starring: Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck Watch all you want. Exciting Available to rent or buy Rent HD $4.29 Buy HD $14.69 More purchase options Tower Heist 2011 | Maturity Rating: PG-13 | 1h 44m | Comedies When a group of workers at a ritzy Manhattan condo realize their boss has swindled them out of their pensions, they vow to reap their own justice.Directed by Brett Ratner Writing Credits Cast (in credits order) verified as complete Produced by Music by Christophe Beck Cinematography by Dante Spinotti … director of photography Editing by Mark Helfrich Casting By Kathleen Chopin Production Design by Kristi Zea Art Direction by Nicholas Lundy Set Decoration by Diane Lederman Costume Design by PG-13 2011, Comedy/Adventure, 1h 45m 67% Tomatometer 201 Reviews 48% Audience Score 50,000+ Ratings What to know Critics Consensus Tower Heist is a true Brett Ratner joint: little brains to this… Tower Heist When a group of hard-working guys find out they’ve fallen victim to their wealthy employer’s Ponzi scheme, they conspire to rob his high-rise residence. Director Brett Ratner Writers Adam Cooper Bill Collage Ted Griffin Tower Heist is a 2011 American heist comedy film directed by Brett Ratner, written by Ted Griffin and Jeff Nathanson, based on a story by Bill Collage, Adam Cooper and Griffin and starring Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy with Casey Affleck, Alan Alda, Matthew Broderick, Judd Hirsch, Téa Leoni, Michael Peña, and Gabourey Sidibe in supporting roles. In this economy, we’re all “The Help.Broadband Select from the list of servers belowħ20p Choose Server 1 1080p Choose Server 2 4K Choose Server 3 HD Choose Server 4ġh 44m IMDb RATING 6.2 /10 148K YOUR RATING Rate POPULARITY 4,515 242 Play trailer 2:02 27 Videos 85 Photos Action Comedy Crime When a group of hard-working guys find out they’ve fallen victim to their wealthy employer’s Ponzi scheme, they conspire to rob his high-rise residence. And in “Tower Heist,” the caper itself becomes secondary when the message hits this close to home. The one-liners pop and the cast delivers. He plays online chess with Josh, but he never lets him forget his place, demanding that Josh personally deliver his meals because “I don’t want the help spitting in my coffee.” Tea Leoni stages a “Flirting With Disaster” reunion with Stiller as an FBI agent on the Shaw case who’s ready to flirt with Josh, especially after she’s had a few drinks.Īlda (another “Flirting” vet) makes a great patronizing patrician. The film’s funniest bits involve Stiller and Murphy remembering their preschool past: “Little seizure boy! Little seizure boy wants to rob somebody!” They need Eddie Murphy, the Murphy of 1983’s “Trading Places” - manic, mouthy and menacing, a guy who can teach them how to pick a lock or lift a wallet. He’ll help with the heist.īut if they’re after Shaw’s hidden millions, they need more than people who know the building and who know Wall Street. He’s lost his job, his home and his wife. Matthew Broderick is type-cast as a nebbish laid-off Merrill Lynch manager evicted from The Tower. ![]() And Peà a, of “The Lincoln Lawyer,” is a hoot. Gabourey Sidibe (“Precious”) is hilariously on the make as a Jamaican maid who lost her savings and may lose her work visa if she can’t find a husband. Guys like fund manager Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda) are kept in coddled comfort. No client has to open his or her own door, no cheating husband ever has to worry he won’t be warned the wife is coming home early. “We’re all about discretion here,” Josh lectures the new guy (Michael Peà a). And Josh has drilled and drilled his staff on anticipating his tenants’ every need. A cast of comedy specialists deliver their comic specialties to perfection, delivering double-takes and one liners so well that you don’t notice how clunky the actual caper in this caper comedy is.īen Stiller is Josh, the ever-efficient building manager in “the priciest real estate in North America,” New York’s swank high-rise condo complex, The Tower. “Tower Heist” is a winning “Robin Hood and his Merry Doormen” comedy about getting even. Talk about Eddie Murphy, funny again after all these years. Talk about being in sync with the national mood. Talk about ripped from today’s headlines. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close MenuĪ comedy about working-class stiffs who stick it to the Wall Street type who stole their savings?
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