Tagline: Who will walk away?
Life should be easy after a sterling career as a master thief. Though he is now retired to an island paradise with his partner in crime (Salma Hayek), trouble comes looking for Max Burdett (Pierce Brosnan) when his former nemesis from the FBI (Woody Harrelson) shows up with news of a big score rumored to be on the horizon.
A new cat-and-mouse game of friendship, suspicion and thievery is afoot. Filmed on location in the Caribbean, After the Sunset is directed Brett Ratner and produced by Beau Flynn and executive produced by Tripp Vinson. The high-stakes action comedy After The Sunset begins where most great heist movies end — with a pair of master thieves escaping to a tropical paradise to enjoy the spoils of their labor. But when an FBI agent, who has pursued them, becomes convinced that they are actually plotting to pull off a million-dollar theft from a nearby “diamond cruise,” a riveting game of cat and mouse begins.
Max “The King of Alibis” Burdett (Pierce Brosnan) and his beautiful accomplice Lola (Salma Hayek) have come to Paradise Island in the Bahamas, fresh off their final big score in which they lifted the second of the three famous Napoleon diamonds. With their financial future set, the couple is ready to relax and enjoy their hard-earned riches. But Stan (Woody Harrelson), the FBI agent who has spent years in dogged but failed pursuit of Max, refuses to believe that his nemesis is actually calling it quits.
He thinks that Max and Lola are actually plotting to steal the third Napoleon diamond — one of the three largest non-flawed diamonds in the world — which is coincidentally scheduled to arrive on Paradise Island as part of a touring cruise ship exhibition. Since he has no jurisdiction in the Caribbean country, Stan teams with a local cop (Naomie Harris) and sets out to catch the sly Max and Lola in the act, while at the same time a local gangster (Don Cheadle) has his own plans for the diamond.
When the longtime adversaries meet up in paradise, Max quickly turns the tables and befriends the frustrated detective, showing him that Paradise Island has no shortage of pleasures to offer. But in order for Stan to figure out exactly what Max and Lola are up to, he will have to navigate all the twists and double-crosses of an action-packed story of friendship, suspicion and thievery.
After the Sunset is a 2004 action comedy film starring Pierce Brosnan as Max Burdett, a master thief caught in a cat-and-mouse game with FBI agent Stan Lloyd, played by Woody Harrelson. The film was directed by Brett Ratner.
The film opened at #3 in the North American box office, earning $11,100,392 in its opening weekend, with its widest release in 2,819 theaters. It grossed $28,331,233 domestically and $33,016,564 in international markets, adding up to a worldwide gross of $61,347,797.
The film shot in the Bahamas. With the majority of the script set on an island in the Caribbean, the filmmakers decided to shoot in The Bahamas, Basing their production out of Kerzner International’s Atlantis resort in Nassau, cast and crew flew in from Los Angeles, Miami and New York City to commence filming.
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After the Sunset (2004)
Directed by: Brett Ratner
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Woody Harrelson, Salma Hayek, Naomie Harris, Obba Babatunde, Don Cheadle, Chris Penn, Troy Garity, Mykelti Williamson, Robert Curtis Brown
Screenplay by: Paul Zbyszewski
Production Design by: Geoffrey Kirkland
Cinematography by: Dante Spinotti
Film Editing by: Mark Helfrich
Costume Design by: Rita Ryack
Set Decoration by: Jennifer Williams
Art Direction by: Steve Arnold
Music by: Lalo Schifrin
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexuality, violence and language.
Distributed by: New Line Cinema
Release Date: November 12, 2004
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