In New York, Andy Hanson is an addicted executive of a real estate office that has embezzled a large amount for his addiction and expensive way of life with his wife Gina. When an audit is scheduled in his department, he becomes desperate for money. His baby brother Hank Hanson is a complete loser that owes three months of child support to his daughter, and is having a love affair with Gina every Thursday afternoon. Andy plots a heist of the jewelry of their parent in a Saturday morning without the use of guns, expecting to find an old employee working and without financial damage to his parents, since the insurance company would reimburse the loss. On Monday morning, we would raise the necessary money he needs to cover his embezzlement. He invites Hank to participate, since he is very well known in the mall where the jewelry is located and could be recognized. However, Hank yellows and invites the thief Bobby Lasorda to steal the store, but things go wrong when their mother Nanette comes to work as the substitute for the clerk and Bobby brings a hidden gun. Nanette reacts and kills Bobby but she is also lethally shot. After the death of Nanette, their father Charles Hanson decides to investigate the robbery with tragic consequences.

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
  • Rating: (50,592 votes)
  • Taglines:No one was supposed to get hurt. » Loyalty. It's all relative. »
  • Runtime:117 minutes
  • Director: Sidney Lumet
  • Country:USA
  • Actors:
    Andy
    Philip Seymour Hoffman
    Hank
    Ethan Hawke
    Charles
    Albert Finney
    Gina
    Marisa Tomei
    Chris
    Aleksa Palladino
    Dex
    Michael Shannon
    Martha
    Amy Ryan
    Danielle
    Sarah Livingston
    Bobby
    Brían F. O'Byrne
    Nanette
    Rosemary Harris
  • Genres:Crime, Drama, Thriller
  • Producers:
    Belle Avery
    executive producer  
    Jane Barclay
    executive producer  
    David Bergstein
    executive producer  
    Michael Cerenzie
    producer  
    Austin Chick
    co-producer  
    Joel Corenman
    co-executive producer  
    Carol Cuddy
    line producer  
    William S. Gilmore
    producer  
    J.J. Hoffman
    executive producer  
    Eli Klein
    executive producer  
    Hannah Leader
    executive producer  
    Brian Linse
    producer  
    Jeffry Melnick
    executive producer  
    Paul Parmar
    producer  
    Guy Pham
    co-executive producer  
    Jeff G. Waxman
    co-producer  
    Sam Zaharis
    executive producer  
  • Plots: Needing extra cash, two brothers conspire to pull off the perfect, victimless crime. No guns, no violence, no problem. But when an accomplice ignores the rules and crosses the line, his actions trigger a series of events in which no one is left unscathed. Written by Carol Green
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
  • User's comment:Top notch by kosmasp

    Sydney Lumet, although one of the oldest active directors, still got game! A few years ago he shot "Find me guilty", a proof to everyone that Vin Diesel can actually act, if he gets the opportunity and the right director. If he had retired after this movie (a true masterpiece in my eyes), no one could have blamed him. But he's still going strong, his next movie already announced for 2009.

    But let's stay with this movie right here. The cast list is incredible, their performance top notch. The little nuances in their performances, the "real" dialogue and/or situations that evolve throughout the movie are just amazing. The (time) structure of the movie, that keeps your toes the whole time, blending time-lines so seamlessly, that the editing seems natural/flawless. The story is heightened by that, although even in a "normal" time structure, it would've been at least a good movie (Drama/Thriller). I can only highly recommend it, the rest is up to you! :o)


  • Quotes: Henry 'Hank' Hanson: [Bobby switches from folk music on the radio to heavy metal] What the fuck is this? Bobby Lasorda: You can listen to that faggoty shit all the way home. Right now, I got to get into character. Andrew 'Andy' Hanson: The thing about real estate accounting is that you can, you can, add down the page or across the page and everything works out. Everyday, everything adds up. The, the total is always the sum of its parts. It's, uh, clean. It's clear. Neat, absolute. But my life, it, uh, it doesn't add up. It, uh... Nothing connects to anything else. It's, uh... I'm not, I'm not the sum of my parts. All my parts don't add up to one... to one me, I guess.
  • Also known as: Antes que el diablo sepa que has muerto (Mexico), Antes que el diablo sepa que has muerto (Spain), Πριν ο Διάβολος Καταλάβει ότι Πέθανες (Greece), 7h58 ce samedi-là (France), Antes que el diablo sepa que estás muerto (Argentina - imdb display title), Antes que o Diabo Saiba que Morreste (Portugal), Antes que o Diabo Saiba que Você Está Morto (Brazil - imdb display title), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Denmark - DVD title), Dok djavo ne sazna da si mrtav (Serbia - imdb display title), Enne kui saatan surmast sotti saab (Estonia - imdb display title), Inainte sa afle diavolul ca ai murit (Romania - imdb display title), Mielőtt az ördög rádtalál (Hungary), Nez dábel zjistí, ze ses mrtvej (Czech Republic), Nim diabel dowie sie, ze nie zyjesz (Poland), Onora il padre e la madre (Italy), Prin o Diavolos katalavei oti pethanes (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), Relaciones peligrosas (Peru), Seytan duymadan önce (Turkey - Turkish title), Sono doyoubi, 7 ji 58'pun (Japan), Tödliche Entscheidung (Germany),

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