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post #1 of 10
7/1/09 at 9:31pm
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I have been wondering for so long! I walked out in the middle of it a couple of months ago, and I have been dieing to see it since.

A brief synopsis of the first half of the movie is as follows:

There are a bunch of dudes robbing a bank, and they drill into a large safe during the dead of night. Some man is standing watch. Two women, both british (I believe. They are certainly european, and I think this entire film is based in some european metropolis.) are walking home along the sidewalk drunk. As they walk over the bank, the bank robbers have to stop drilling, and they wander home.

I believe the movie them flashes to one of the women, I think she was the protagonist, as she enters her apartment and confronts her boyfriend on what relationship issues. All the while, the boyfriend could really care less, and is working on an "Urban Sound" music thingy.

I forgot a bunch of stuff inbetween here and the next segment... but!

I remember that the companion chick is a voice actress who is out of work.

They both end up trying to blackmail some people, who I believe are the bank robbers. They end up almost getting killed, hiding in the park for drops, etc etc.

Thanks for any help you can give me here!
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post #2 of 10
7/1/09 at 10:15pm
The movie is The Bank Job, starring Jason Statham. It takes place primarily in London.

Out of curiosity, why did you walk out in the middle of it in the first place if you're dying to see it now?
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post #3 of 10
7/2/09 at 12:31am
 Some of that doesn't sound like The Bank Job.  The voice actress bit, and someone trying to blackmail the bank robbers.
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post #4 of 10
7/2/09 at 6:00pm
That was my first thought, but I don't think The Bank Job is right.     That film takes place in the early 70's so the Urban Music part doesn't seem to work, the blackmail comes from a different direction, and the Vault entry isn't interrupted by a random passerby.   I just can't think of any recent Bank Robbery film that comes close -- Inside Man, Swordfish, Ocean's 11+,
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post #5 of 10
7/2/09 at 6:49pm
Reading closer, it looks like you guys are right. I'm clueless too, then.
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post #6 of 10
7/3/09 at 1:40pm
Thread Starter 

Yup, not The Bank Job. It stars two women, and I believe that it may be a foreign flick, but it had to have been distributed in the U.S. somehow.

Ya, I did not walk out of it in theatres! :) It was either on Starz Cinema, or IFC, which makes it much more elusive than your standard blockbuster mainstream distributed movie like most of Statham's things.

 

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post #7 of 10
7/3/09 at 2:04pm
I've totally seen that movie but damn if I could tell you what it was. But I wanted to say that because I never recognize these obscure "what movie is this" films, and I was really surprised to remember it.

EDIT; aw man, I tracked my movie down but it doesn't sound the same anymore, but it was similar;

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0253126/



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post #8 of 10
7/3/09 at 5:19pm
Zach, that movie may no be the correct one, but it sounds like an absolute hoot.   Mary McCormack and Minnie Driver team up.

I just love the description on the IMDB page -- AbFab meets Starsky and Hutch.   I might have to track it down.  RottenTomato at 20% though -- I'm not too hard to please so still might have to search.

Actually, looking at the Amazon description, this may be the right movie afterall.

"Supremely silly and entirely entertaining, High Heels and Low Lifes begins with a high-tech bank robbery--into the middle of which stumble Shannon (Minnie Driver) and Frances (Mary McCormack), who have gone out and gotten drunk because Shannon's boyfriend forgot her birthday. Thanks to this same boyfriend's surveillance equipment (on which he was creating his "urban noise symphony installation"), they end up with a cell phone number belonging to one of the thieves and decide to experiment with blackmail--an experiment that soon gets them into deep trouble. None of this is remotely plausible, but the breezy script keeps taking surprising twists, Driver and McCormack are an engaging duo (and they run to and fro in tight, stylish outfits), and the movie is directed with flair. Fun, frivolous, and unexpected. --Bret Fetzer "
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post #9 of 10
7/4/09 at 9:54am
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That is the movie! Big thanks!
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post #10 of 10
7/6/09 at 8:16pm
"wonderingperson, merman"

aren't new member supposed to have a real name included with the "fake name"?
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