| | | The are no partners in crime.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Dolby, Digital Audio, English, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound, French
Career thief Nick Wells (Robert De Niro) is about to mastermind a nearly impossible theft that will require his joining forces with a clever young accomplice (Edward Norton). The unlikely alliance, arranged by Nick's longtime friend and fence, Max (Marlon Brando), interrupts Nick's plan to retire from crime and settle down with his fiancee, Diane (Angela Bassett). Even worse, it requires that Nick violate his most important rule: Always work alone.
"A top-drawer heist movie that ratchets up the tension inch by careful inch." Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
"A perfect 10 of a movie." Desson Howe, Washington Post
"'The Score' snaps and crackles with extraordinary acting from three great stars." Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper and the Movies
"...an ingenious suspense caper." Gene Shalit, Today
"'The Score' is the best pure heist movie in recent years." Roger Ebert. Chicago Sun-Times
"All-star cast scores high." Leah Rozen, People
Editor's Note
Every thief dreams of the big heist that will allow him to leave the business of crime behind. Every thief except Nick (Robert De Niro), a cool, methodical safecracker who never takes on long-shot jobs until his longtime partner, Max (Marlon Brando), offers him the big score--to filch a priceless scepter from the Montreal customs house. Wary about the job, Nick and the hotheaded customs house "insider," Jackie (Edward Norton), begin to dissect the elaborate details of entering the building, avoiding the security measures, blowing the safe, and escaping with the scepter. But as in every thrilling crime caper, plans go awry. Skilled comic director Frank Oz is clearly comfortable working with the best method actors from the past three generations. Brando's Max bursts with joyful cynicism, while De Niro is Brando's perfect foil, so collected that every smile seems like a revelation. Norton's Jackie is far more expressive, but it is Norton's smallest movements--holding a gaze a half beat too long--that hint at the secret motives pulsing beneath his skin. Smooth like the scotch Nick likes to drink, and swirling with tension, THE SCORE provides the real payoff to the audience.
| Features | The Making-Of The Score | | Commentary by Director Frank Oz and Director of Photography Rob Hahn | | Widescreen Edition | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1, English & French Dolby Digital Surround | | Subtitles: English | | Theatrical Trailer | | Additional Footage | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | The Score - DVD Review By: Christopher Null - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 9/4/2009 5:42 PM | |
The Score is the heist film I've wanted to see for a long time. Not since James Caan burned that safe open in 1981's Thief has a safecracking been so tense and meticulously designed. And with the triple threat of Ed Norton, Robert De Niro, and -- God bless him -- Marlon Brando, The Score is in some excellent hands. The story is a familiar one. De Niro plays the likable Nick Wells, an expert safecracker who has clearly done well living a life of crime....read the full review |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Paramount |
| Release Date: 1/4/2005 |
| Running Time: 124 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2001 | | Catalog ID: 339214 | | UPC: 00097363392149 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew | Angela Bassett | | Edward Norton | | Marlon Brando | | Robert De Niro | | Margery Simpkin - Casting by | | Aude Bronson-Howard - Costume Designer | | Frank Oz - Directed by | | Frank Oz - Director | | Rob Hahn - Director of Photography | | Richard Pearson - Editor | | Budd Carr - Executive Music Producer | | Bernie Williams & Adam Platnick - Executive Producers | | Howard Shore - Music by | | Howard Shore - Musical Score | | Gary Foster & Lee Rich - Produced by | | Gary Foster, et al. - Producer | | Jackson De Govia - Production Designer | | Kario Salem, et al. - Screenplay | | Kario Salem, Lemm Dobbs & Scott Marshall Smith - Screenplay by | | Daniel E. Taylor, et al. - Story By | | Kario Salem & Dan Taylor - Story by |
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| | Professional Reviews | Variety
"THE SCORE is as close to a hat tick as any mainstream Hollywood entertainment in some time. Restoring the seductive style to the no-nonsense procedural heist movie to complete luster....[A] meticulously detailed thriller....A supremely solid movie..." 07/16/2001 p.18-23Entertainment Weekly
"...Smart, tense, clever, and methodical....This is the sort of movie you enjoy exactly because of its gadgety obsessiveness and deft clockwork design..." 07/20/2001 p.40-1 Rolling Stone
"...Brando -- his eyes alive with mischief -- is the life of the movie..." 08/02/2001 p.70 Los Angeles Times
"...A top-drawer heist movie that ratchets up the tension inch by careful inch....Engrossing..." 07/13/2001 p.1 Sight and Sound
"...There's an undeniable pleasure in seeing De Niro taking to crime in earnest once more....And for Brandologists there's one more performance for the collection..." 10/01/2001 p.58-9 Chicago Sun-Times
"...THE SCORE is the best pure heist movie in recent years..." 07/13/2001 p.35 Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
...the best pure heist movie in recent years... [the movie] has the patience to build real suspense instead of trying to substitute cheap thrills... Who would have guessed that Frank Oz, a onetime Muppeteer whose work has been mostly in comedy, could direct a noir caper that's so lean and involving? - Roger Ebert
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