Inside Man
Crime, Mystery
Universal Studios  (2006) 129 mins R

7.7 (65,502 votes)
"A heist thriller like you've never seen." -- Jim Ferguson, ABC

Academy Award® winner Denzel Washington, Academy Award® nominee Clive Owen and Academy Award® winner Jodie Foster star in this intense and explosive crime thriller. The perfect bank robbery quickly spirals into an unstable and deadly game of cat-and-mouse between a criminal mastermind (Owen), a determined detective (Washington), and a power broker with a hidden agenda (Foster). As the minutes tick by and the situation becomes increasingly tense, one wrong move could mean disaster for any one of them. From acclaimed director Spike Lee comes the edge-of-your-seat, action-packed thriller The Wall Street Journal calls "a heist film that's right on the money."...

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Cast and Crew
Denzel Washington  ......  Detective Keith Frazier
Jodie Foster  ......  Madeleine White
Clive Owen  ......  Dalton Russell
Christopher Plummer  ......  Arthur Case
Willem Dafoe  ......  Captain John Darius
Chiwetel Ejiofor  ......  Detective Bill Mitchell
Director  .....  Spike Lee
Producer  .....  Brian Grazer; Jonathan Filley
Writer  .....  Russell Gewirtz
Notes
Goofs:
Continuity: In the scene were the 'hostage' is dragged kicking and screaming by his ankles through the rooms of the bank, he pulls a pile of books over that are stacked next to the doorway. Later in the film when the police storm the building, the books are neatly stacked back at the side of the door. (more)

Trivia:
Two actors from Dog Day Afternoon (1975) were cast as a homage to that film, with parallels. Marcia Jean Kurtz plays a hostage named Miriam in each film, and Lionel Pina delivers pizza in both. (more)

Filming Locations:
New York City, New York, USA (more)

Quotes:
[first lines]
Dalton Russell: My name is Dalton Russell. Pay strict attention to what I say because I choose my words carefully and I never repeat myself. I've told you my name: that's the Who. The Where could most readily be described as a prison cell. But there's a vast difference between being stuck in a tiny cell and being in prison...
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Awards:
5 wins & 7 nominations (more)