West Virginia family man Jimmy Logan teams up with his one-armed brother Clyde and sister Mellie to steal money from the Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina. Jimmy also recruits demolition expert Joe Bang to help them break into the track’s underground system. Complications arise when a mix-up forces the crew to pull off the heist during a popular NASCAR race, while also trying to dodge a relentless FBI agent.
HEIST
THE KILLING
Career criminal Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) recruits a sharpshooter (Timothy Carey), a crooked police officer (Ted de Corsia), a bartender (Joe Sawyer) and a betting teller named George (Elisha Cook Jr.), among others, for one last job before he goes straight and marries his fiancee, Fay (Coleen Gray). But when George tells his restless wife, Sherry (Marie Windsor), about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.
HELL OR HIGH WATER – R
Toby is a divorced father who’s trying to make a better life for his son. His brother Tanner is an ex-convict with a short temper and a loose trigger finger. Together, they plan a series of heists against the bank that’s about to foreclose on their family ranch. Standing in their way is Marcus, a Texas Ranger who’s only weeks away from retirement. As the siblings plot their final robbery, they must also prepare for a showdown with a crafty lawman who’s not ready to ride off into the sunset.
FISH CALLED WANDA -R
In London, four very different people team up to commit armed robbery, then try to doublecross each other for the loot.
OCEANS ELEVEN – PG13
New Year’s Eve in Las Vegas. Roulette wheels spin, cards snap, slots chime, champagne fizzes, shows go on…and the lights go out. It’s the perfect time to steal a kiss or a $25 chip. But for Danny Ocean (Frank Sinatra) and 10 partners in crime, it’s the ideal moment to steal millions. Sinatra and off-screen pals Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop, play army buddies who scheme to knock out power to the Vegas strip, electronically rig five big casino vaults and raid them all on the same night.
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THE GETAWAY R
A recently released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry.
FANTASTIC MR. FOX
An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers’ retaliation.
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RESERVOIR DOGS – R
After a simple jewelery heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant. The movie opens with six men dressed in dark suits (Mr. Blonde, Mr. Blue, Mr. Brown, Mr. Orange, Mr. Pink and Mr. White) eating breakfast at a diner, accompanied by Joe Cabot (Lawrence Tierney) and his son, “Nice Guy” Eddie (Chris Penn). Mr. Brown (Quentin Tarantino) discusses his comparative analysis of Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” and “True Blue” while the rest listen. When they are going to leave the diner, Mr. Pink (Steve Buscemi) expresses his anti-tipping policy. Everyone disagrees with him, but Mr. Orange (Tim Roth). Then they leave the diner accompanied by “Little Green Bag” by George Baker Selection.
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