Film Excess - Free Ukraine - Stop Putin - End the war NOW!!: Going in Style (2017) - Flip the bird to banks with game veteran stars

3/30/2021

Going in Style (2017) - Flip the bird to banks with game veteran stars

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Three beloved veteran stars walking away with poorly secured loot makes up this bright poster for Zach Braff's Going in Style

When a retired bank customer witnesses a successful heist during a time in which he is forced out of his home, because his pension has been canceled, he gets a smart idea...

Going in Style is written by Theodore Melfi (Winding Roads (1999)) and directed by great New Jerseyite filmmaker Zach Braff (Garden State (2004)). It is a remake of Martin Brest's same-titled 1979 heist comedy hit starring George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg.

It is Braff's best work yet as a director by far, and perhaps the year's most welcome, funny and heart-warming film about a jolly good time. SPOILER It is good also because it doesn't splash despondently together in a fix about the world's regrettable constitution today but instead shows us that people are generally good and helpful, although there are greedy bastards in banks and elsewhere that are keen to defraud their next man. The sympathetic analysis of the modern world here gives rise to three adorable veteran stars giving these miscreants a solid knock in the head:

Michael Caine (California Suite (1978)) has his best part in many years and is downright fabulous. Morgan Freeman (Dreamcatcher (2003)) and Alan Arkin (Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)) are also both delightful; and so is Ann-Margret (Carnal Knowledge (1971)), the actress playing the stewardess, Matt Dillon (Deuces Wild (2002)) and John Ortiz (Take the Lead (2006)) as the helpful latino criminal. Christopher Lloyd (Clubhouse (2004-05)) is a bit caricatured as an Alzheimers patient, and Joey King (Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)) as Caine's granddaughter is unnatural and not credibly written, but Going in Style is wonderful and unpretentious all the same.

Zach Braff: Garden State (2004) - Braff's hugely overrated deadweight debut (writer/director/co-star)

Watch a trailer for the film here

Cost: 25 mil. $

Box office: 84.9 mil. $

= Box office success (returned 3.39 times its cost)

[Going in Style premiered 1 April (Beaune Film Festival, France) and runs 96 minutes. Shooting took place in New York in August 2015 - ?. The film opened #4, behind holdover hits The Boss Baby and Beauty and the Beast and fellow new release Smurfs: The Lost Village, to an 11.9 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it spent another 3 weekends in the top 5 (#5-#5-#4) and grossed 45 mil. $ (53 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were Germany with 4.2 mil. $ (4.9 %) and the UK with 3.9 mil. $ (4.6 %). Braff has returned as director on two TV-series and with a short. Caine returned in Dear Dictator (2017); Freeman in Madam Secretary (2015-17) and theatrically in Just Getting Started (2017); and Arkin in Get Shorty (2017, TV-series), with a voice performance in Dumbo (2019), The Kominsky Method (2018-19) and physically and theatrically in Spenser Confidential (2020). Going in Style is rotten at 47 % with a 5.40/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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William Friedkin has died

Born in Chicago, Friedkin accrued TV credits prior to his advance to the big screen as the director of Good TImes (1967), The Birthday Party (1968), The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968) and The Boys in the Band (1970) before his major breakthrough, The French Connection (1971), for which he won his only Oscar. He followed it up with the even bigger smash, The Exorcist (1973), arguably the best horror film of all time, for which he was Oscar-nominated. Later credits include Sorcerer (1977), Cruising (1980), To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), Rampage (1987), Rules of Engagement (2000), Killer Joe (2011) and The Devil and Father Amorth (2017, documentary). Friedkin passed away at age 87. R.I.P.

Louise Fletcher has passed away

Born in Alabama to deaf parents, Fletcher got her first credits in late-1950s TV-series.She took a 10 year-long sabbatical to devote her time to motherhood after the release of A Gathering of Eagles, but then came back and soon saw her career's most important part, as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), for which she won her sole Oscar. Later credits include Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), The Lucky Star (1980), Brainstorm (1983), Two Moon Junction (1988), Cruel Intentions (1999), A Perfect Man (2013) and many more. Fletcher passed away at age 88. R.I.P.

Jean-Luc Godard has passed away

Born in Paris, France, Godard lived much of his life in Switzerland. He wrote for French film criticism magazine Cahiers du Cinema and became foundational for the New French Wave that inspired new waves in scores of other countries across the world with his Breathless (1960). Later credits include A Woman Is A Woman (1961), Vivre Sa Vie (1962), Le Petit Soldat (1962), Contempt (1963), Alphaville (1965), Pierrot le Fou (1965), 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967), Weekend (1967), Every Man for Himself (1980), King Lear (1987), Century of Cinema (1995, documentary), Goodbye to Language (2014) and many more. Godard died of assisted suicide at age 91. R.I.P.

Wolfgang Petersen has died

James Caan has died

Caan was born the son of Jewish immigrants from Germany in New York. He got his start on TV in the early 1960s. His credits include El Dorado (1966), The Rain People (1969), Brian's Song (1971, TV movie), The Godfather (1972), - for which he earned his only Oscar nomination, - Slither (1973), The Gambler (1974), Funny Lady (1975), Rollerball (1975), Silent Movie (1976), Hide in Plain Sight (1980), - the only film he also directed, - Thief (1981), Misery (1990), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), Bottle Rocket (1996), Eraser (1996), Dogville (2003), Elf (2003), Las Vegas (2003-07), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) and many more. Caan passed away at age 82. R.I.P.

Jean-Louis Trintignant has died

Born in Vaucluse, France, Trintignant's theatrical debut as an actor was in If All the Guys in the World... (1955). Later credits include ...And God Created Woman (1956), The Seven Deadly Sins (1961), Inferno (1964), A Man and A Woman (1966), My Love, My Love (1967), A Man to Kill (1967), The Great Silence (1968), Z (1969), The Assassination (1972), Three Colors: Red (1994), Amour (2012), Happy End (2017) and many more. He also wrote and directed two films in the 1970s. Trintignant passed away at age 91. R.I.P.

Ray Liotta has died

Adopted from an orphenage at a young age, Liotta got hooked on acting in high school. He had various TV credits in the late 1970s and early 80s, with his film debut in The Lonely Lady (1983). Later credits include Something Wild (1986), Field of Dreams (1989), Goodfellas (1990), Cop Land (1997), Hannibal (2001), Blow (2001), Narc (2002), John Q (2002), Identity (2003), Observe and Report (2009), Youth in Revolt (2009), The Details (2011), Killing THem Softly (2012), The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), Shades of Blue (2016-18), The Simpsons (2018, TV-series), Marriage Story (2019), The Many Saints of Newark (2021), Black Bird (2022, TV-series) and many more. Liotta passed away at age 67 in his sleep while on production in the Dominican Republic. R.I.P.

Philip Baker Hall has died

Born in Ohio, Hall didn't start acting until he was 30. His long list of credits include Zabriskie Point (1970), Miami Vice (1987, TV-series), Midnight Run (1988), Ghostbusters II (1989), Cheers (1993, TV-series), Hard Eight (1996), The Rock (1996), Air Force One (1997), Boogie Nights (1997), Seinfeld (1991-98), Rush Hour (1998), The Insider (1999), Magnolia (1999), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Bruce Almighty (2003), Dogville (2003), The Zodiac (2005), Zodiac (2007), Curb Your Enthusiasm (2004-09), Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011), Modern Family (2011-12) and many more. Hall passed away at age 90. R.I.P.

William Hurt has passed away

Born in Washington D.C., Hurt's first film role was the lead in Altered States (1980). Later credits include Body Heat (1981), The Big Chill (1983), Gorky Park (1983), Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), for which he earned his only Oscar as Best Actor; Chilrdren of a Lesser God (1986), for which he was also Oscar-nominated; Broadcast News (1987), for which he was again Oscar-nominated; Smoke (1995), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), A History of Violence (2005), for which he was again Oscar-nominated; The Good Shepherd (2006), Into the Wild (2007), Robin Hood (2010) and many more. Hurt passed away at age 71. R.I.P.

Ivan Reitman has passed away

Born in Chechoslovakia, now Slovakia, Reitman's family fled the Soviet regime to Austria, then Toronto, when he was 4 years old. Reitman broke into movies as a director with Foxy Lady (1971). Later credits include Cannibal Girls (1973), Meatballs (1979), Stripes (1981), Ghostbusters (1984), Twins (1988), Ghostbusters II (1989), Kindergarten Cop (1990), Junior (1994), Father's Day (1997), Evolution (1998), No Strings Attached (2011), Draft Day (2014) and more. Reitman's son Jason Reitman is also a great filmmaker. Reitman passed away at age 75. R.I.P.

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