The Lookout (2007) (R)

Quicklook Rating★★★

synopsis

"The Lookout" marks Academy Award®-nominated screenwriter Scott Frank’s ("Out of Sight"), directorial debut. The intelligent crime drama is centered around Chris, a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.

details

Drama
1 hr. 38 min.
Opened March 30th, 2007

director

Scott Frank

writer

Scott Frank

MovieGoer Review

In a genre full of Memento wannabes, The Lookout is a very good Memento-lite--not less effective than that film but, for better and worse, less self-serious.

Story

The Lookout begins like what might seem a teen horror ... MORE

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synopsis

"The Lookout" marks Academy Award®-nominated screenwriter Scott Frank’s ("Out of Sight"), directorial debut. The intelligent crime drama is centered around Chris, a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.

details

Drama
1 hr. 38 min.
Opened March 30th, 2007

director

Scott Frank

writer

Scott Frank

MovieGoer Review

In a genre full of Memento wannabes, The Lookout is a very good Memento-lite--not less effective than that film but, for better and worse, less self-serious.

Story

The Lookout begins like what might seem a teen horror ... MORE