The Others
Like The Others, it builds dread through a family’s increasingly unstable sense of safety, though Lumet’s threat comes from human choices rather than supernatural uncertainty.
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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a shattering climax.
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What it’s about — and how it feels
Two brothers’ plan to rob their parents’ jewelry store turns family loyalty into a chain of debts, betrayals and consequences. Sidney Lumet fractures the story across shifting timelines and points of view, letting the same choices acquire new weight as the pressure closes in; the performances keep the damage intimate, rooted in a family struggling to face what it has done.
Fractured, shifting timelineFamily loyalty under strainCrime with intimate consequencesBleak, pressure-building drama
Where it stands
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Details
- Directed by
- Sidney Lumet
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- Starring
- Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney
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More on your wavelength
Three titles that echo something distinctive in this one, with a quick note on the connection.
The Green Mile
Both films place moral reckoning inside a family-shaped drama, but The Green Mile widens its frame to prison life and supernatural mercy, while Lumet stays close to a robbery’s fallout.
About Time
Each turns on people confronting the weight of their choices, but About Time approaches that question through warmth, romance and time travel, unlike Lumet’s tightly wound family tragedy.