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7.4When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is facing.
Cast
- Denzel Washington as Keith Frazier
- Clive Owen as Dalton Russell
- Jodie Foster as Madeleine White
- Christopher Plummer as Arthur Case
- Willem Dafoe as John Darius
- Chiwetel Ejiofor as Bill Mitchell
Themes
- new york city
- hostage
- ultimatum
- heist
- police detective
- bank robbery
- hostage situation
- nypd
- manhattan, new york city
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Ratings
IMDb
7.6/10
422,850 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
86%
Metacritic
76/100
- Year
- 2006
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 5 wins & 12 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Spike Lee
- Written by
- Russell Gewirtz
- Produced by
- Brian Grazer
- Starring
- Denzel Washington Clive Owen Jodie Foster Christopher Plummer Willem Dafoe Chiwetel Ejiofor
- Cinematography
- Matthew Libatique
- Edited by
- Barry Alexander Brown
- Music by
- Terence Blanchard
- Production companies
- Universal Pictures Imagine Entertainment 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks
- Distributed by
- Universal Pictures
- Release dates
- March 20, 2006 ( 2006-03-20 ) ( New York City ) March 24, 2006 ( 2006-03-24 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 129 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $45–60 million
- Box office
- $184.4 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 129
- FilmAffinity ID
- 858463
- Official website
- www.uphe.com/movies/inside-man
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- publication date
- 2006-03-24
- title
- Inside Man
- review score
- 86%
- capital cost
- 45000000
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Article
Inside Man is a 2006 American crime thriller film directed by Spike Lee and written by Russell Gewirtz. It centers on an elaborate bank heist-turned-hostage situation on Wall Street. The film stars Denzel Washington as Detective Keith Frazier, the NYPD's hostage negotiator, Clive Owen as Dalton Russell, the mastermind who orchestrates the heist, and Jodie Foster as Madeleine White, a Manhattan fixer who becomes involved at the request of the bank's founder Arthur Case (Christopher Plummer) to keep something in his safe deposit box protected from the robbers.
Gewirtz spent five years developing the premise before working on what became his first original screenplay. After he completed the script in 2002, Imagine Entertainment purchased it to be made by Universal Pictures, with Imagine co-founder Ron Howard attached to direct. After Howard stepped down, his business partner Brian Grazer began looking for a new director and ultimately hired Lee. Principal photography took place on location in New York City from June to August 2005. With a $45–60 million budget, it is Lee's most expensive film.