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Tower Heist

(No longer in theaters)

Rating: PG-13 — for language and sexual content
Director: Brett Ratner Cast: Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Matthew Broderick, Tea Leoni, Casey Affleck
Running Time: 104 minutes
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Genre

Action/Adventure, Comedy

Producer

Brian Grazer, Eddie Murphy, Kim Roth

Distributor

Universal Pictures

Release Date

Nov 4, 2011

Release Notes

Nationwide

Official Website

www.towerheist.net

Review

The Occupy Wall Street people will get a populist boost from Tower Heist, a shameless but exuberantly well-done caper comedy about employees of an apartment building for the super-wealthy who band together to rob the smug Madoffian billionaire (Alan Alda) who gobbled up, among other things, their pension fund. Ben Stiller, as a micromanager with a chip on his shoulder, and Eddie Murphy, as a calculating street thief, show off two of the best fastballs in comedy, and Téa Leoni’s best scene as an FBI agentï¿½drunk, both sloppy and bluntï¿½makes you wish she had more. The screenplay (credited to Ted Griffin and Jeff Nathanson) is packed with nifty gags, and director Brett Ratner stages a sequence involving a sports car dangling from the top of a skyscraper that makes us all Scottie Ferguson in Vertigo, our eyes making like yo-yos. — David Edelstein