Taglines: There are no partners in crime.
The Score movie storyline. After nearly being caught on a routine burglary, master safe-cracker Nick Wells decides the time has finally come to retire from his criminal activities. He is enticed into taking one final score by his fence Max. The job, worth a $4 million payoff to Nick, is to steal a sceptre, a French national treasure stored in the ultra-secure basement of the Montréal Customs House. The sceptre was discovered by Customs agents being smuggled into the US through Canada. Max introduces Nick to Jack Teller, an ambitious thief who has infiltrated the Customs House and gained information regarding security by pretending to be an intellectually disabled janitor.
Nick’s trusted associate Steven hacks into the Custom House’s security system to obtain the bypass codes, allowing them to temporarily manipulate the alert protocols of the system during the heist. Steven is caught, however, by a corrupt systems administrator who extorts Nick for $50,000 for the information. More complications arise when they are forced to move up their timetable after the Customs House becomes aware of the true value of the sceptre and adds extra closed-circuit television cameras and infrared detectors to monitor the basement room while preparing to return it to its rightful owners.
The Score is a 2001 Canadian-American crime thriller film directed by Frank Oz and starring Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Angela Bassett, and Marlon Brando in his final film role. It was the only time that Brando and De Niro appeared onscreen together (although both played the same role of Don Vito Corleone, in The Godfather saga, they never appeared together). The screenplay was based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from a story by Daniel E. Taylor and Emmy-winner Kario Salem.
The Score (2001)
Directed by: Frank Oz, Robert De Niro
Starring: Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Marlon Brando, Angela Bassett, Gary Farmer, Jamie Harrold, Paul Soles, Richard Waugh, Marie-Josée Colburn, Cassandra Wilson
Screenplay by: Daniel E. Taylor, Kario Salem, Lem Dobbs
Production Design by: Jackson De Govia
Cinematography by: Rob Hahn
Film Editing by: Richard Pearson
Costume Design by: Aude Bronson-Howard
Sct Decoration by: K.C. Fox, Charles-David Deschenes
Art Direction by: Claude Paré, Tom Reta
Music by: Howard Shore
MPAA Rating: R for language.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: July 13, 2001
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