Before the Devil Knows You're Dead [Blu-ray] From:Rosemary Harris , Philip Seymour Hoffman , Ethan Hawke , Marisa Tomei , Albert Finney , Image Ent. , Sidney Lumet , Image Entertainment ,
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Image Ent.
EAN: 0014381491258
Format: AC-3
Format: Color
Format: Dolby
Format: NTSC
Format: Widescreen
Weight: 100 hundredths-pounds
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Packaged Height: 50 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 670 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 15 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 530 hundredths-inches
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-04-15
Running Time: 117 minutes
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Product Description:
Image Ent. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead [Blu-ray] Sidney Lumets Before the Devil Knows Youre Dead isan exceptionally dark story about a crime gone wrong and the complicated reasons behind it. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke are outstanding asbrothers 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. Hoffmans 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 differentvantage 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 persuasivework by an old master.
Customer Reviews:
 Mining The Depths Of Stupidity, 2008-10-06
Listen, Man. This sure had all the indicators of a promising few hours, with the cast and director having proved themselves through the years. It's impossible to feel any sympathy for any of the characters in this film, 'cuz they're all either too selfish or stupid to exist. Good acting? Sure, but to what end? The movie jumps back & forth in a very distracting manner, and Hawke's character is darn dumb I wanted to rip him outta the TV and strangle him. Believability is shot early on in this lame attempt at suspense. Several loose ends, but really it don't matter, because at least the agony is over. Marisa's lovely presence is the only reason I sat through it to the end. Lame, lame, lame otherwise. Wanna sey Hoffman in something worthwhile, get Love Liza or Owning Mahoney. Avoid this stinkbomb.
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