{"id":69626,"date":"2014-08-21T16:28:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T16:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2014\/08\/21\/tiff-2014-preview-american-heist\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T03:59:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T03:59:26","slug":"tiff-2014-preview-american-heist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/tiff-2014-preview-american-heist\/","title":{"rendered":"TIFF 2014 Preview: American Heist"},"content":{"rendered":"

TIFF 2014 Preview: American Heist<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

Making its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival is American Heist<\/strong>, a highly charged crime caper directed by Sarik Andreasyan.<\/p>\n

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Two brothers (Adrien Brody<\/strong> and Hayden Christensen<\/strong>) with troubled pasts become embroiled in a high-stakes bank robbery, in this indie action thriller also starring Jordana Brewster, Tory Kittles<\/strong> and Ako<\/strong>n.<\/p>\n

Set in present-day New Orleans, James (Hayden Christensen) has a checkered past, but he’s trying to put his life on the straight and narrow. He has a decent job in an auto shop, plans to start his own business, and there’s even the promise of love on the horizon. But one day, before his dream can become a reality, he opens his front door to find his older brother Frankie (Adrien Brody), recently released from a ten-year stretch in prison. Frankie has some money-making strategies of his own, and he needs James to help him one last time \u2014 in a spectacularly elaborate bank heist. Even though it’s Frankie’s influence that James is trying to escape, he finds himself drawn into the unsavoury plan due to a combination of guilt, greed, and misguided brotherly devotion.<\/p>\n\n

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