Plot
Two common criminals get more than they bargained for after kidnapping the wife of a corrupt real-estate developer who shows no interest in paying the $1 million dollar ransom for her safe return.

Release Year: 2013

Rating: 6.6/10 (352 voted)

Critic's Score: 66/100

Director: Daniel Schechter

Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Mos Def, Isla Fisher

Storyline
Two common criminals get more than they bargained for after kidnapping the wife of a corrupt real-estate developer who shows no interest in paying the $1 million dollar ransom for her safe return.

Writers: Elmore Leonard, Daniel Schechter

Cast:
Jennifer Aniston - Mickey Dawson
Mos Def - Ordell Robbie (as Yasiin Bey)
Isla Fisher - Melanie
Will Forte - Marshall Taylor
Mark Boone Junior - Richard Monk
Tim Robbins - Frank Dawson
John Hawkes - Louis Gara
Clea Lewis - Tyra Taylor
Charlie Tahan - Bo Dawson
Kevin Corrigan - Ray
Leonard Robinson - Officer Dixon
Kevin Porter Young - Officer Kenny
Alex Ladove - Pamela Taylor
Jenna Nye - Shelly Taylor
Jill Abramovitz - Jan

Official Website: Official site

Country: USA

Language: English

Release Date: 29 August 2014

Filming Locations: Greenwich, Connecticut, USA

Box Office Details

Budget: $12,000,000 (estimated)

Runtime: 98 min

Trivia:
This film was previously in development at 20th Century Fox in 1986 with Diane Keaton as Mickey Dawson but the project was shelved after being deemed too similar to Ruthless People (1986). See more »

Goofs:
The brand of golf ball used in the Bahamas scene is "Noodle Long and Soft" which were introduced 25 years after the setting of the picture. See more »

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I'm partial to Dutch Leonard movies, "Jackie Brown/Rum Punch" and "Get Shorty" were terrific. His stories are character based and his plots are simply threads that allow his weird and wild characters to be revealed. I liked this picture on the TIFF big screen last night. but the Jackie and Shorty films accomplished this with superior casting, while "Life of Crime" is more "Big Bounce" than these two. The bad guys are well formed, Ordell, Louie & Richard are all well portrayed. And Tim Robbins reproduces well the object of his personal disaffection for the past few decades - the ugly, lying hypocritical capitalist. But Anniston is a vaporous Mickey. She seems unaffected by any events surrounding her, not her husband's drunkenness and philandering, nor his hiding of vast sums of money or even his plans to divorce her. If she's a victim of traumatic stress, she doesn't even pull this off. Every hair on her head stays in place even after being kidnapped and almost raped. So she is the weak link in an otherwise watchable kidnapping caper pic.

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