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The Italian Job is a 2003 American heist action film directed by F. Gary Gray and starring Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Jason Statham, Seth Green, Mos Def and Donald Sutherland. An American remake of the 1969 British film, but with an original story, the plot follows a motley crew of thieves who plan to steal gold from a former associate who double-crossed them. Despite the shared title, the plot and characters of this film differ from those of its source material; Gray described the film as an homage to the original .

Most of the film was shot on location in Venice and Los Angeles, where canals and streets, respectively, were temporarily shut down during principal photography. Distributed by Paramount Pictures, The Italian Job was theatrically released in the United States on May 30, 2003, and grossed over $176 million worldwide. Critical response was largely positive, with publications comparing it favorably to the original film while highlighting the action sequences, performances of the cast and humor. A sequel, The Brazilian Job, has reportedly been in development since 2004, but has yet to be produced as of 2022.

Plot

John Bridger, a professional safecracker, has assembled a team to steal $35 million worth of gold bullion from a safe in Venice, held by Italian gangsters who had stolen it weeks earlier. The team includes professional fixer Charlie Croker, computer expert Lyle or Napster , wheelman Handsome Rob, inside man Steve, and explosives expert Left Ear. The heist is successful, but as they drive towards Austria with the bullion, they are stopped by men loyal to Steve, who had turned on them and takes the bullion for himself. Steve kills John when the latter admonishes him, and Rob drives the van over a bridge into the waters below to protect the others, using air tanks from the heist to stay alive. Steve leaves them for dead.

A year later in Philadelphia, Charlie learns that Steve has resurfaced under a new identity and is laundering the gold through a Ukrainian jeweler named Yevhen to finance his lavish lifestyle in Los Angeles. Charlie gathers the team, and also recruits John s daughter Stella, a skilled private safe expert, offering her the chance to get revenge on Steve for her father s death. They stake out Steve s mansion, and Stella, disguising herself as a cable technician, is able to map out its interior, allowing them to determine the location of Steve s safe containing the remaining bullion. Steve, unaware of Stella s identity, asks Stella to go out on a date with him. Charlie and Stella devise a plan using explosives to blow the safe while Steve is away on his supposed date, using three heavily modified Mini Coopers to transport the gold out of the mansion. Charlie enlists the help of supplier Skinny Pete for the explosives and mechanic Wrench to make the modifications on the cars.

During one of Steve s visits to Yevhen, Yevhen accidentally reveals that he knows about the Venice heist. To cover his tracks, Steve kills Yevhen, whose cousin, Mashkov, the leader of a Ukrainian crime family, traces the information about the gold back to Skinny Pete via Yevhen s ex-employee Vance.

The group embark on the night of the planned heist but discover that Steve s neighbors are having a party. As the explosives would draw attention, they cancel their plan. Stella, still having to meet Steve, inadvertently gives away her identity by using similar phrases to her father. When the team arrives to help protect her, Steve taunts them, saying that he still has the upper hand, but he secretly plans to transport the gold to Mexico City by a private plane from Los Angeles International Airport after transporting it there in an armored car. Napster hears of this through his tap on Steve s phone, and Charlie and his gang make a new plan to steal the gold en route to the airport by hijacking the city s traffic control system to force the armored car to a planned spot where they will execute the heist.

On the day of transport, they are surprised when three armored trucks leave Steve s mansion, but Napster is able to determine which one carries the bullion and manipulates the traffic accordingly. Knowing that Steve is monitoring the transport by helicopter, they get the car to the target spot and then create a diversion as they detonate explosives to drop the part of the road with the car into a subway tunnel below. After opening the truck, they find a different safe from the one that held the gold before. Although she struggles initially, Stella cracks the safe, and they load up the Coopers with the gold, now revealed to amount to $27 million. They race from the subway to the Los Angeles River and through the city, pursued by Steve s henchmen on motorcycles, with Napster creating a green wave to evade traffic. Stella, Handsome Rob, and Left Ear head to the Union Station, while Charlie decides to lure Steve away on his helicopter. Steve tries to kill Charlie by having his helicopter pilot destroy Charlie s Mini Cooper, but he disables Steve s helicopter by damaging its tail rotor with his car, forcing it to land.

Steve carjacks a Ford Bronco to follow Charlie to Union Station, where the cars are loaded onto a train car with the help of Wrench. Steve bribes Wrench to let him in, but finds Charlie and the others waiting. He brandishes a gun and demands his gold back, but Mashkov arrives with some armed men and disarms him. Charlie explains that he has offered Mashkov part of the gold and Steve in exchange for helping with security protection (it is implied that Skinny Pete put him in touch). Stella punches Steve in the face as revenge. Mashkov then takes him away, implying he intends to not kill Steve, but torture him for killing Yevhen. The group boards the train as it departs to New Orleans, and celebrate in John s honor. The epilogue shows them all having used their share of the gold for their own desired purposes; Handsome Rob purchases an Aston Martin Vanquish, getting pulled over by a beautiful policewoman, Left Ear buys a mansion in Andalusia with a room for his shoe collection, while Napster buys a powerful stereo capable of blowing a woman s clothes off. Meanwhile, Charlie takes John s advice about finding someone he wants to spend the rest of his life with, and he and Stella travel to Venice together.

Cast

  • Mark Wahlberg as Charlie Croker, the team s leader and master thief. He seeks revenge for the murder of his mentor, John Bridger.
  • Charlize Theron as Stella Bridger, John s daughter and a professional safe-cracker. She uses tools and technology to open safes, in contrast to her father who opened them by feel.
  • Edward Norton as Steve Frazelli, a thief who turned on Charlie s crew and left them for dead after stealing the gold from them.
  • Donald Sutherland as John Bridger, Stella s father and safe-cracker who is pulled in by Charlie for one more job.
  • Jason Statham as Handsome Rob, the team s wheelman and a charming ladies man.
  • Seth Green as Lyle, the team s computer expert. He claims he is the real inventor of Napster, insisting that Shawn Fanning stole the idea from him.
  • Mos Def as Gilligan Left Ear , the team s demolition and explosives expert.
  • Franky G as Wrench, a mechanic who Rob contacts to engineer the Minis to carry the gold. He later joins the team for the heist.
  • Boris Lee Krutonog as Yevhen, a jewelry store owner with ties to the Ukrainian mafia. He s a conspiracy theorist who is buying the stolen gold bars from Steve.
  • Aleksander Krupa as Mashkov, a member of the Ukrainian mafia family and Yevhen s cousin. He operates a junkyard as a base as he searches for Yehven s killer.

Production

Development

Neal Purvis and Robert Wade wrote a draft of a remake of the 1969 British crime film The Italian Job which was rejected by Paramount. Screenwriting team Donna and Wayne Powers were subsequently commissioned to write a remake. The duo viewed the original film, which neither had seen before, only once because wanted to get a sense of what it was about in regards to its tone. Over the course of two years and through 18 drafts, they developed a screenplay which was described by director F. Gary Gray as inspired by the original. Gray, Powers and Powers, and executive producer James Dyer identified the most prominent similarities as the trio of Mini Coopers used by the thieves, as well as the titular heist involving the theft of gold bullion. Some sequences of the film were storyboarded and previsualized by Gray before production began.

Casting

Gray had been interested in working with Wahlberg since seeing his performance in Boogie Nights (1997). After reading the script for The Italian Job, Gray contacted Wahlberg, who fell in love with it after reading it himself. Green was also attracted to the project because of the script. Theron was Gray s first choice for the character of Stella Bridger, and Wahlberg also recommended her for the role. She spent time with a safecracker in preparation for the role. Gray s casting director Sheila Jaffe suggested Statham for the role of getaway driver Handsome Rob, and Gray agreed with her choice. Norton took the role of Steve Frazelli, due to a contractual obligation he had to fulfill. Wahlberg, Theron, and Statham attended special driver s training sessions at Willow Springs International Motorsports Park for nearly a month during pre-production.

Filming

Gray and cinematographer Wally Pfister worked together to develop a visual style for the film before production began. They viewed car commercials and magazine photographs, as well as chase sequences from The French Connection (1971), Ronin (1998), and The Bourne Identity (2002) as visual references. Pfister wanted dark textures and undertones and strong contrast ; he collaborated with production designer Charlie Wood on the color palette, and the two would confer with Gray on their ideas. This was Wally Pfister s first experience using the Super 35 format since Paramount preferred that the film not be shot in the anamorphic format, despite Pfister s wishes to do so. However, Gray still wanted a widescreen aspect ratio, just like the origin, so they chose to shoot the film in Super 35 for a 2.39:1 aspect ratio. Once principal photography began, Gray frequently utilized dollies, as well as Steadicams and a Technocrane, to keep the cameras almost constantly moving.

Most of The Italian Job was shot on location, at sites Pfister scouted over 12 weeks during pre-production, but some scenes were filmed on sets. The Venice building where the film s opening heist sequence takes place, the van from which the thieves survey Steve Frazelli s mansion, a hotel room, and the LACMTA Red Line subway tunnel were sets constructed at Downey Studios in California. For the scene in which an armored truck falls through Hollywood Boulevard and into the subway tunnel below, Pfister set up seven cameras to capture the vehicle s ~30 foot (9.1 m) descent. Three hundred cars were used to simulate the traffic jam at the intersection of Hollywood and Highland, which was controlled by the production crew for a week. Three of the 32 custom-built Mini Coopers used during principal photography were fitted with electric motors since combustion engines were not allowed in the subway tunnels, where some scenes were shot. Other Mini Coopers were modified to allow for camera placement on and inside the vehicles. The director remarked that part of the cast.

Gray wanted the film to be as realistic as possible; accordingly, the actors did most of their own stunts, and computer-generated imagery was used very sparingly. The second unit, under director Alexander Witt and cinematographer Josh Bleibtreu, filmed establishing shots, the Venice canal chase sequence, and the Los Angeles chase sequence over a period of 40 days. Filming on location posed some challenges. The opening heist sequence in Venice, Italy, was strictly monitored by the local authorities, due to the high speeds the boats were driven at. The frigid temperatures at Passo Fedaia in the Italian Alps created problems during production: The guns would jam, and if you could imagine not being able to walk 40 feet with a bottle of water without it freezing, those are the conditions we had to work in, Gray remarked. Pedestrians had to be allowed to use the sidewalks of Hollywood Boulevard between takes. Also, scenes which took place on freeways and city streets were only filmed on weekends.

Release

Box-office performance

The Italian Job premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on May 11, 2003, and was theatrically released in the United States on May 30, 2003, along with Finding Nemo and Wrong Turn. In its opening weekend, the film grossed $19.5 million, ranking at #3. Paramount re-released the film on August 29, and by the time its theatrical release closed in November 2003, the film had grossed $106.1 million in the United States and Canada, and $69.9 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $176.1 million. It was the highest-grossing film produced by Paramount in 2003.

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, The Italian Job holds an approval rating of 73% based on 183 reviews, with an average rating of 6.4/10. The site s critics consensus reads, Despite some iffy plot elements, The Italian Job succeeds in delivering an entertaining modern take on the original 1969 heist film, thanks to a charismatic cast. Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews from mainstream critics, calculated an average score of 68 out of 100 based on 37 critics, indicating generally favorable reviews . Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of B+ on an A+ to F scale.

Stephanie Zacharek, writing for Salon.com, liked the reinvention of the plot and the style and execution of the action sequences, specifically those involving the trio of Mini Coopers, which she wrote were the stars of the film. BBC reviewer Stella Papamichael gave The Italian Job 4 stars out of 5, and wrote that the revenge plot adds wallop lacking in the original . Los Angeles Times reviewer Kevin Thomas praised the opening Venice heist sequence and the characterization of each of the thieves, but felt that the Los Angeles heist sequence was arguably stretched out a little too long . Roger Ebert gave the film 3 stars out of 4, writing that the film was two hours of mindless escapism on a relatively skilled professional level . Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle concurred, describing The Italian Job as pure but smart entertainment plotted and executed with invention and humor . Reviewer James Berardinelli also gave the film 3 stars out of 4, and said that Gray had discovered the right recipe to do a heist movie: keep things moving, develop a nice rapport between the leads, toss in the occasional surprise, and top with a sprinkling of panache . Variety s Robert Koehler compared The Italian Job to The Score (2001), another finely tuned heist pic which also featured Edward Norton in a similar role.

David Denby, writing for The New Yorker, praised Norton s performance, as well as those of Seth Green and Mos Def, and the lack of digital effects in the action sequences. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B− grade, comparing it positively to the 2000 remake of Gone in 60 Seconds, as well as the 2001 remake of Ocean s Eleven. New York Daily News reviewer Jack Mathews gave The Italian Job 2.5 stars out of 4, writing that the action sequences and plot twists were a vast improvement from the original, and that the Los Angeles heist sequence was clever and preposterous . Mike Clark of USA Today also questioned the probability of the Los Angeles heist sequence and wrote that the film was a lazy and in-name-only remake , giving it 2 stars out of 4. Peter Travers, writing for Rolling Stone, gave The Italian Job 1 star out of 4, describing the film as a tricked-out remake of a heist flick that was already flat and formulaic in 1969 . Travers enjoyed the comic relief in Green s and Def s characters, and added that Norton s was he most perversely magnetic performance outside of the Mini Coopers, but felt that there was a lack of logic in the film.

Home media

The Italian Job was released on DVD by Paramount Home Entertainment October 7, 2003, and includes five bonus features on different aspects of the film s production, in addition to six deleted scenes. It was released on HD DVD August 8, 2006 and on Blu-ray Disc October 24, 2006.

Accolades

F. Gary Gray won a Film Life Movie Award for Best Director at the 2004 American Black Film Festival. Clay Cullen, Michael Caines, Jean Paul Ruggiero and Mike Massa won an award for Best Specialty Stunt at the 2004 Taurus World Stunt Awards for the boat chase through the canals of Venice. The Italian Job was nominated for the 2003 Saturn Award for Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film, but lost to Kill Bill. In April 2009, IGN named the film s Los Angeles chase sequence one of the top 10 car chases of the 21st Century.

Analysis

Criminologist Nicole Rafter saw The Italian Job as part of a revival of the heist film around the start of the 21st century, along with The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) and Ocean s Eleven (2001), both of which were also remakes of 1960s heist films. In describing his theory of a team film genre, film scholar Dr. Jeremy Strong writes that The Italian Job could be categorized as such, along with The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Great Escape (1963), The Dirty Dozen (1967), and more recently The Usual Suspects (1995) and Mission: Impossible (1996). He states that

a team film involves a group working towards a particular objective. However, goal-orientation is a widely shared plot attribute of many texts and genres and it is also the case that the overwhelming majority of films involve a plurality of interacting characters. An element that distinguishes the team film then is that a heightened significance is afforded to the group as the means by which a given objective is attempted. From film to film there is variation in the extent to which particular central characters may determine events and take up screen time but team films are recognizable by their insistence upon the relationship between group and goal.

Strong additionally makes a direct comparison between The Italian Job and Mission: Impossible, citing the plot device of a first task that elucidates the roles and skills of team members but which is sabotaged by betrayal, necessitating a re-constitution of the team.

The use of BMW s then-new line of retro-styled Minis in the film was mentioned by critics and business analysts alike as a prime example of modern product placement, or more specifically brand integration . Film critic Joe Morgenstern called The Italian Job the best car commercial ever . Zacharek and Mathews both noted the cars prominence in their reviews of the film, also writing that their presence served as a connection to the 1969 film upon which it was based. BusinessWeek reported in April 2004 that sales of the Mini in 2003—the year in which The Italian Job was theatrically released—had increased 22 percent over the previous year.

Possible sequel

There are a couple of scripts that have been written, but in the last six years since we made, Paramount s hierarchy has changed hands four times and it s never seemed to be a priority for the studio to make the movie…. There s enough of a fan outcry for it, but we just haven t been able to get the studio to greenlight it.

—Seth Green on the proposed sequel, September 7, 2008

A sequel to The Italian Job, tentatively titled The Brazilian Job, was in development by the summer of 2004, but has since faced multiple delays. Principal photography was initially slated to begin in March 2005, with a projected release date in November or December 2005. However, the script was never finalized, and the release date was pushed back to sometime in 2006, and later summer 2007.

Writer David Twohy approached Paramount Pictures with an original screenplay entitled The Wrecking Crew, and though the studio reportedly liked the idea, they thought it would work better as a sequel to The Italian Job. Gray was slated to return as director, as well as most, if not all, of the original cast. At least two drafts of the script had been written by August 2007, but the project had not been greenlit.

In March 2008, in an interview, Jason Statham said that somebody should just erase it from IMDb…. and put it back on there when it s fully due and ready. It s one of those things that s just sitting around. Producer Donald De Line revealed in June that a script for The Brazilian Job had been developed and budgeted, but a lot of things were happening with various management changes and it got tabled. Describing its story, he said it starts in Brazil, the set up is in Rio and the picture moves to Belgium where there’s something involving diamonds. However, Green stated that September that the sequel was unlikely in the near future.

On March 9, 2009, De Line said that have a version at Paramount that we re talking very serious about , additionally mentioning that the cast was interested in the project. Neal Purvis and Robert Wade had been working on a draft of the sequel that year. The Daily Record reported in September that Theron was signed up for the film. That October, Gray said that he enjoyed making The Italian Job and hoped that he would still be interested in directing the sequel if the script became finalized and mentioned that it would be dependent upon scheduling.

In January 2010, Twohy was quoted in an interview as saying The Brazilian Job probably isn t happening. I wrote it years ago, and they just keep rolling it over on IMDb. Paramount—what can I say? When asked about the sequel that June, Green said The Brazilian Job doesn t exist actually and called it a wonderful myth of IMDb. However, the next month, Mark Wahlberg said that sequel production was active again.

The Italian Job is a 2003 American heist action film directed by F. Gary Gray and starring Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Jason Statham, Seth Green, Mos Def and Donald Sutherland. An American remake of the 1969 British film, but with an original story, the plot follows a motley crew of thieves who plan to steal gold from a former associate who double-crossed them. Despite the shared title, the plot and characters of this film differ from those of its source material; Gray described the film as an homage to the original .

Most of the film was shot on location in Venice and Los Angeles, where canals and streets, respectively, were temporarily shut down during principal photography. Distributed by Paramount Pictures, The Italian Job was theatrically released in the United States on May 30, 2003, and grossed over $176 million worldwide. Critical response was largely positive, with publications comparing it favorably to the original film while highlighting the action sequences, performances of the cast and humor. A sequel, The Brazilian Job, has reportedly been in development since 2004, but has yet to be produced as of 2022.

Plot

John Bridger, a professional safecracker, has assembled a team to steal $35 million worth of gold bullion from a safe in Venice, held by Italian gangsters who had stolen it weeks earlier. The team includes professional fixer Charlie Croker, computer expert Lyle or Napster , wheelman Handsome Rob, inside man Steve, and explosives expert Left Ear. The heist is successful, but as they drive towards Austria with the bullion, they are stopped by men loyal to Steve, who had turned on them and takes the bullion for himself. Steve kills John when the latter admonishes him, and Rob drives the van over a bridge into the waters below to protect the others, using air tanks from the heist to stay alive. Steve leaves them for dead.

A year later in Philadelphia, Charlie learns that Steve has resurfaced under a new identity and is laundering the gold through a Ukrainian jeweler named Yevhen to finance his lavish lifestyle in Los Angeles. Charlie gathers the team, and also recruits John s daughter Stella, a skilled private safe expert, offering her the chance to get revenge on Steve for her father s death. They stake out Steve s mansion, and Stella, disguising herself as a cable technician, is able to map out its interior, allowing them to determine the location of Steve s safe containing the remaining bullion. Steve, unaware of Stella s identity, asks Stella to go out on a date with him. Charlie and Stella devise a plan using explosives to blow the safe while Steve is away on his supposed date, using three heavily modified Mini Coopers to transport the gold out of the mansion. Charlie enlists the help of supplier Skinny Pete for the explosives and mechanic Wrench to make the modifications on the cars.

During one of Steve s visits to Yevhen, Yevhen accidentally reveals that he knows about the Venice heist. To cover his tracks, Steve kills Yevhen, whose cousin, Mashkov, the leader of a Ukrainian crime family, traces the information about the gold back to Skinny Pete via Yevhen s ex-employee Vance.

The group embark on the night of the planned heist but discover that Steve s neighbors are having a party. As the explosives would draw attention, they cancel their plan. Stella, still having to meet Steve, inadvertently gives away her identity by using similar phrases to her father. When the team arrives to help protect her, Steve taunts them, saying that he still has the upper hand, but he secretly plans to transport the gold to Mexico City by a private plane from Los Angeles International Airport after transporting it there in an armored car. Napster hears of this through his tap on Steve s phone, and Charlie and his gang make a new plan to steal the gold en route to the airport by hijacking the city s traffic control system to force the armored car to a planned spot where they will execute the heist.

On the day of transport, they are surprised when three armored trucks leave Steve s mansion, but Napster is able to determine which one carries the bullion and manipulates the traffic accordingly. Knowing that Steve is monitoring the transport by helicopter, they get the car to the target spot and then create a diversion as they detonate explosives to drop the part of the road with the car into a subway tunnel below. After opening the truck, they find a different safe from the one that held the gold before. Although she struggles initially, Stella cracks the safe, and they load up the Coopers with the gold, now revealed to amount to $27 million. They race from the subway to the Los Angeles River and through the city, pursued by Steve s henchmen on motorcycles, with Napster creating a green wave to evade traffic. Stella, Handsome Rob, and Left Ear head to the Union Station, while Charlie decides to lure Steve away on his helicopter. Steve tries to kill Charlie by having his helicopter pilot destroy Charlie s Mini Cooper, but he disables Steve s helicopter by damaging its tail rotor with his car, forcing it to land.

Steve carjacks a Ford Bronco to follow Charlie to Union Station, where the cars are loaded onto a train car with the help of Wrench. Steve bribes Wrench to let him in, but finds Charlie and the others waiting. He brandishes a gun and demands his gold back, but Mashkov arrives with some armed men and disarms him. Charlie explains that he has offered Mashkov part of the gold and Steve in exchange for helping with security protection (it is implied that Skinny Pete put him in touch). Stella punches Steve in the face as revenge. Mashkov then takes him away, implying he intends to not kill Steve, but torture him for killing Yevhen. The group boards the train as it departs to New Orleans, and celebrate in John s honor. The epilogue shows them all having used their share of the gold for their own desired purposes; Handsome Rob purchases an Aston Martin Vanquish, getting pulled over by a beautiful policewoman, Left Ear buys a mansion in Andalusia with a room for his shoe collection, while Napster buys a powerful stereo capable of blowing a woman s clothes off. Meanwhile, Charlie takes John s advice about finding someone he wants to spend the rest of his life with, and he and Stella travel to Venice together.

Cast

  • Mark Wahlberg as Charlie Croker, the team s leader and master thief. He seeks revenge for the murder of his mentor, John Bridger.
  • Charlize Theron as Stella Bridger, John s daughter and a professional safe-cracker. She uses tools and technology to open safes, in contrast to her father who opened them by feel.
  • Edward Norton as Steve Frazelli, a thief who turned on Charlie s crew and left them for dead after stealing the gold from them.
  • Donald Sutherland as John Bridger, Stella s father and safe-cracker who is pulled in by Charlie for one more job.
  • Jason Statham as Handsome Rob, the team s wheelman and a charming ladies man.
  • Seth Green as Lyle, the team s computer expert. He claims he is the real inventor of Napster, insisting that Shawn Fanning stole the idea from him.
  • Mos Def as Gilligan Left Ear , the team s demolition and explosives expert.
  • Franky G as Wrench, a mechanic who Rob contacts to engineer the Minis to carry the gold. He later joins the team for the heist.
  • Boris Lee Krutonog as Yevhen, a jewelry store owner with ties to the Ukrainian mafia. He s a conspiracy theorist who is buying the stolen gold bars from Steve.
  • Aleksander Krupa as Mashkov, a member of the Ukrainian mafia family and Yevhen s cousin. He operates a junkyard as a base as he searches for Yehven s killer.

Production

Development

Neal Purvis and Robert Wade wrote a draft of a remake of the 1969 British crime film The Italian Job which was rejected by Paramount. Screenwriting team Donna and Wayne Powers were subsequently commissioned to write a remake. The duo viewed the original film, which neither had seen before, only once because wanted to get a sense of what it was about in regards to its tone. Over the course of two years and through 18 drafts, they developed a screenplay which was described by director F. Gary Gray as inspired by the original. Gray, Powers and Powers, and executive producer James Dyer identified the most prominent similarities as the trio of Mini Coopers used by the thieves, as well as the titular heist involving the theft of gold bullion. Some sequences of the film were storyboarded and previsualized by Gray before production began.

Casting

Gray had been interested in working with Wahlberg since seeing his performance in Boogie Nights (1997). After reading the script for The Italian Job, Gray contacted Wahlberg, who fell in love with it after reading it himself. Green was also attracted to the project because of the script. Theron was Gray s first choice for the character of Stella Bridger, and Wahlberg also recommended her for the role. She spent time with a safecracker in preparation for the role. Gray s casting director Sheila Jaffe suggested Statham for the role of getaway driver Handsome Rob, and Gray agreed with her choice. Norton took the role of Steve Frazelli, due to a contractual obligation he had to fulfill. Wahlberg, Theron, and Statham attended special driver s training sessions at Willow Springs International Motorsports Park for nearly a month during pre-production.

Filming

Gray and cinematographer Wally Pfister worked together to develop a visual style for the film before production began. They viewed car commercials and magazine photographs, as well as chase sequences from The French Connection (1971), Ronin (1998), and The Bourne Identity (2002) as visual references. Pfister wanted dark textures and undertones and strong contrast ; he collaborated with production designer Charlie Wood on the color palette, and the two would confer with Gray on their ideas. This was Wally Pfister s first experience using the Super 35 format since Paramount preferred that the film not be shot in the anamorphic format, despite Pfister s wishes to do so. However, Gray still wanted a widescreen aspect ratio, just like the origin, so they chose to shoot the film in Super 35 for a 2.39:1 aspect ratio. Once principal photography began, Gray frequently utilized dollies, as well as Steadicams and a Technocrane, to keep the cameras almost constantly moving.

Most of The Italian Job was shot on location, at sites Pfister scouted over 12 weeks during pre-production, but some scenes were filmed on sets. The Venice building where the film s opening heist sequence takes place, the van from which the thieves survey Steve Frazelli s mansion, a hotel room, and the LACMTA Red Line subway tunnel were sets constructed at Downey Studios in California. For the scene in which an armored truck falls through Hollywood Boulevard and into the subway tunnel below, Pfister set up seven cameras to capture the vehicle s ~30 foot (9.1 m) descent. Three hundred cars were used to simulate the traffic jam at the intersection of Hollywood and Highland, which was controlled by the production crew for a week. Three of the 32 custom-built Mini Coopers used during principal photography were fitted with electric motors since combustion engines were not allowed in the subway tunnels, where some scenes were shot. Other Mini Coopers were modified to allow for camera placement on and inside the vehicles. The director remarked that part of the cast.

Gray wanted the film to be as realistic as possible; accordingly, the actors did most of their own stunts, and computer-generated imagery was used very sparingly. The second unit, under director Alexander Witt and cinematographer Josh Bleibtreu, filmed establishing shots, the Venice canal chase sequence, and the Los Angeles chase sequence over a period of 40 days. Filming on location posed some challenges. The opening heist sequence in Venice, Italy, was strictly monitored by the local authorities, due to the high speeds the boats were driven at. The frigid temperatures at Passo Fedaia in the Italian Alps created problems during production: The guns would jam, and if you could imagine not being able to walk 40 feet with a bottle of water without it freezing, those are the conditions we had to work in, Gray remarked. Pedestrians had to be allowed to use the sidewalks of Hollywood Boulevard between takes. Also, scenes which took place on freeways and city streets were only filmed on weekends.

Release

Box-office performance

The Italian Job premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on May 11, 2003, and was theatrically released in the United States on May 30, 2003, along with Finding Nemo and Wrong Turn. In its opening weekend, the film grossed $19.5 million, ranking at #3. Paramount re-released the film on August 29, and by the time its theatrical release closed in November 2003, the film had grossed $106.1 million in the United States and Canada, and $69.9 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $176.1 million. It was the highest-grossing film produced by Paramount in 2003.

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, The Italian Job holds an approval rating of 73% based on 183 reviews, with an average rating of 6.4/10. The site s critics consensus reads, Despite some iffy plot elements, The Italian Job succeeds in delivering an entertaining modern take on the original 1969 heist film, thanks to a charismatic cast. Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews from mainstream critics, calculated an average score of 68 out of 100 based on 37 critics, indicating generally favorable reviews . Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of B+ on an A+ to F scale.

Stephanie Zacharek, writing for Salon.com, liked the reinvention of the plot and the style and execution of the action sequences, specifically those involving the trio of Mini Coopers, which she wrote were the stars of the film. BBC reviewer Stella Papamichael gave The Italian Job 4 stars out of 5, and wrote that the revenge plot adds wallop lacking in the original . Los Angeles Times reviewer Kevin Thomas praised the opening Venice heist sequence and the characterization of each of the thieves, but felt that the Los Angeles heist sequence was arguably stretched out a little too long . Roger Ebert gave the film 3 stars out of 4, writing that the film was two hours of mindless escapism on a relatively skilled professional level . Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle concurred, describing The Italian Job as pure but smart entertainment plotted and executed with invention and humor . Reviewer James Berardinelli also gave the film 3 stars out of 4, and said that Gray had discovered the right recipe to do a heist movie: keep things moving, develop a nice rapport between the leads, toss in the occasional surprise, and top with a sprinkling of panache . Variety s Robert Koehler compared The Italian Job to The Score (2001), another finely tuned heist pic which also featured Edward Norton in a similar role.

David Denby, writing for The New Yorker, praised Norton s performance, as well as those of Seth Green and Mos Def, and the lack of digital effects in the action sequences. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B− grade, comparing it positively to the 2000 remake of Gone in 60 Seconds, as well as the 2001 remake of Ocean s Eleven. New York Daily News reviewer Jack Mathews gave The Italian Job 2.5 stars out of 4, writing that the action sequences and plot twists were a vast improvement from the original, and that the Los Angeles heist sequence was clever and preposterous . Mike Clark of USA Today also questioned the probability of the Los Angeles heist sequence and wrote that the film was a lazy and in-name-only remake , giving it 2 stars out of 4. Peter Travers, writing for Rolling Stone, gave The Italian Job 1 star out of 4, describing the film as a tricked-out remake of a heist flick that was already flat and formulaic in 1969 . Travers enjoyed the comic relief in Green s and Def s characters, and added that Norton s was he most perversely magnetic performance outside of the Mini Coopers, but felt that there was a lack of logic in the film.

Home media

The Italian Job was released on DVD by Paramount Home Entertainment October 7, 2003, and includes five bonus features on different aspects of the film s production, in addition to six deleted scenes. It was released on HD DVD August 8, 2006 and on Blu-ray Disc October 24, 2006.

Accolades

F. Gary Gray won a Film Life Movie Award for Best Director at the 2004 American Black Film Festival. Clay Cullen, Michael Caines, Jean Paul Ruggiero and Mike Massa won an award for Best Specialty Stunt at the 2004 Taurus World Stunt Awards for the boat chase through the canals of Venice. The Italian Job was nominated for the 2003 Saturn Award for Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film, but lost to Kill Bill. In April 2009, IGN named the film s Los Angeles chase sequence one of the top 10 car chases of the 21st Century.

Analysis

Criminologist Nicole Rafter saw The Italian Job as part of a revival of the heist film around the start of the 21st century, along with The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) and Ocean s Eleven (2001), both of which were also remakes of 1960s heist films. In describing his theory of a team film genre, film scholar Dr. Jeremy Strong writes that The Italian Job could be categorized as such, along with The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Great Escape (1963), The Dirty Dozen (1967), and more recently The Usual Suspects (1995) and Mission: Impossible (1996). He states that

a team film involves a group working towards a particular objective. However, goal-orientation is a widely shared plot attribute of many texts and genres and it is also the case that the overwhelming majority of films involve a plurality of interacting characters. An element that distinguishes the team film then is that a heightened significance is afforded to the group as the means by which a given objective is attempted. From film to film there is variation in the extent to which particular central characters may determine events and take up screen time but team films are recognizable by their insistence upon the relationship between group and goal.

Strong additionally makes a direct comparison between The Italian Job and Mission: Impossible, citing the plot device of a first task that elucidates the roles and skills of team members but which is sabotaged by betrayal, necessitating a re-constitution of the team.

The use of BMW s then-new line of retro-styled Minis in the film was mentioned by critics and business analysts alike as a prime example of modern product placement, or more specifically brand integration . Film critic Joe Morgenstern called The Italian Job the best car commercial ever . Zacharek and Mathews both noted the cars prominence in their reviews of the film, also writing that their presence served as a connection to the 1969 film upon which it was based. BusinessWeek reported in April 2004 that sales of the Mini in 2003—the year in which The Italian Job was theatrically released—had increased 22 percent over the previous year.

Possible sequel

There are a couple of scripts that have been written, but in the last six years since we made, Paramount s hierarchy has changed hands four times and it s never seemed to be a priority for the studio to make the movie…. There s enough of a fan outcry for it, but we just haven t been able to get the studio to greenlight it.

—Seth Green on the proposed sequel, September 7, 2008

A sequel to The Italian Job, tentatively titled The Brazilian Job, was in development by the summer of 2004, but has since faced multiple delays. Principal photography was initially slated to begin in March 2005, with a projected release date in November or December 2005. However, the script was never finalized, and the release date was pushed back to sometime in 2006, and later summer 2007.

Writer David Twohy approached Paramount Pictures with an original screenplay entitled The Wrecking Crew, and though the studio reportedly liked the idea, they thought it would work better as a sequel to The Italian Job. Gray was slated to return as director, as well as most, if not all, of the original cast. At least two drafts of the script had been written by August 2007, but the project had not been greenlit.

In March 2008, in an interview, Jason Statham said that somebody should just erase it from IMDb…. and put it back on there when it s fully due and ready. It s one of those things that s just sitting around. Producer Donald De Line revealed in June that a script for The Brazilian Job had been developed and budgeted, but a lot of things were happening with various management changes and it got tabled. Describing its story, he said it starts in Brazil, the set up is in Rio and the picture moves to Belgium where there’s something involving diamonds. However, Green stated that September that the sequel was unlikely in the near future.

On March 9, 2009, De Line said that have a version at Paramount that we re talking very serious about , additionally mentioning that the cast was interested in the project. Neal Purvis and Robert Wade had been working on a draft of the sequel that year. The Daily Record reported in September that Theron was signed up for the film. That October, Gray said that he enjoyed making The Italian Job and hoped that he would still be interested in directing the sequel if the script became finalized and mentioned that it would be dependent upon scheduling.

In January 2010, Twohy was quoted in an interview as saying The Brazilian Job probably isn t happening. I wrote it years ago, and they just keep rolling it over on IMDb. Paramount—what can I say? When asked about the sequel that June, Green said The Brazilian Job doesn t exist actually and called it a wonderful myth of IMDb. However, the next month, Mark Wahlberg said that sequel production was active again.

Year 2003
ReleaseDate 2003-05-30
RuntimeMins 111
RuntimeStr 1h 51min
Plot After being betrayed and left for dead in Italy, Charlie Croker and his team plan an elaborate gold heist against their former ally.
Awards Awards, 7 wins & 9 nominations
Directors F. Gary Gray
Writers Troy Kennedy-Martin, Donna Powers, Wayne Powers
Stars Donald Sutherland, Mark Wahlberg, Edward Norton
Produced by Tim Bevan,Guido Cerasuolo,Donald De Line,James Dyer,Eric Fellner,Wendy Japhet,Lynsey Jones
Music by John Powell
Cinematography by Wally Pfister
Film Editing by Richard Francis-Bruce,Christopher Rouse
Casting By Sheila Jaffe
Production Design by Charles Wood
Art Direction by Doug J. Meerdink,Mark Zuelzke
Set Decoration by Denise Pizzini
Costume Design by Mark Bridges
Makeup Department Enzo Angileri,Germicka Barclay,Christalee,Sterfon Demings,Tina Earnshaw,Frank Fontaine,Joan Giacomin,Andrea Jackson,Eileen Kastner-Delago,Donald Mowat,Shane Paish,Zoe Tahir,Brian A. Tunstall,Johnny Villanueva,Camille Henderson
Production Management Enrico Ballarin,Matthew J. Birch,Laura Cappato,Fabrizio Cerato,James Dyer,Stefano Dalla Lana,Kiki Morris,Paolo Rosada,David Sardi
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director Vincent Agostino,Kenny Bates,Consuelo Bidorini,Alex Corven,Bettina Godi,Doug Metzger,Richard Oswald,Timothy R. Price,Ethan Ross,Davide Sacchetti,David Sardi,Hillary Schwartz,Jeff Shiffman,Brian Steward,Cecilia Sweatman,Pat Wiss,Alexander Witt,Christopher Wolfe,Marco Zanon,James LaRocca
Art Department Doreen Austria,Daniele Bacciu,Beth Bajuk,Andrea Bari,James R. Bayliss,Michael A. Belgrave,Charles W. Belisle,David Benavides,Kelly Berry,Jon Billington,Jerry Brooks,Chris Buchinsky,Shane Buckallew,Craig Byrom,Rick Chavez,Don Tex Clark,Gary Clark,Ryan D. Compton,Jack Cornelius,Darrin Denlinger,John David Diersing,Michael Diersing,Timothy M. Earls,Sandro Ercolini,Francesco franco Ferrara,Chad Fontaine,James Fox,Scott Garrett,Trevor Goring,Scott E. Handt,Regina Henderson,Phillip A. Henry,Audrey A. Johnson,Kent H. Johnson,Kyra Kowasic,Mark Kudra,Janet Kusnick,George Lee,Robert Lucas,Jim Magdaleno,Robert Cass McEntee,Martin Milligan,Joe Monaco,Joseph Musso,Marny Nahrwold,Richard Rocky Nichols,Greg Papalia,Stephen Pietropaolo,Brent Regan,Michael Reichman,Bruce Richter,Greg Rocco,Priscilla Rossi,Darlene Salinas,David Sandefur,Hugo Santiago,Ralph Sarabia,Kenneth Sayers,Jeff Shewbert,Danielle Simpson,Hunter Lee Soik,David Sues,Karen Teneyck,Sally Thornton,Kenneth Turek,Ely Vegh,Susanna Codognato,David Keir,Scott Lafferty,Gary Lock,Jim Orr,Bob West,Frank White
Sound Department Douglas B. Arnold,Fernando Ascani,Bob Baron,Bryan Bowen,Dick Bray,Raul A. Bruce,Fred Burke,Ed Callahan,Roberto Cappannelli,Gail Carroll-Coe,Victor Ray Ennis,John P. Fasal,Tammy Fearing,Frank Fleming,Kevin Globerman,Jeff Gomillion,Mark Gordon,Robert Gravenor,Robin Harlan,Teddy Hiraoko,Ethan Holzman,Chris Jenkins,Kenneth L. Johnson,Michael Kamper,Doc Kane,Randy Kelley,Susan Kurtz,Sarah Monat,Frank A. Montaño,Ronnie Morgan,Alex Names,Chris Navarro,Thomas O Neil Younkman,Mark Ormandy,Willard Overstreet,Michele Perrone,Vic Radulich,Alan Rankin,Philip Rogers,Randy Singer,Thomas W. Small,Frank Smathers,Mark P. Stoeckinger,Mike Szakmeister,Travis Tan,Eric Thompson,Nancy Truman,Christopher Walmer,Christopher T. Welch,Peter Zinda,Douglas J. Schulman
Special Effects by Eric Allard,Bart Barber,Gary D. Bierend,Chris Brenczewski,Darrell Burgess,Tony Chavez,Antonio Corridori,Giovanni Corridori,Maurizio Corridori,Stefano Corridori,Mike Edmonson,Michael Gaspar,Michael Holland,Woody Lawhon,Dave T. MacDonald,Barry McQueary,Joe D. Ramsey,Mark Yuricich
Visual Effects by Paal Anand,Scott Anderson,Roger Andersson,Geoffrey Baumann,Melissa Best,Cosmas Paul Bolger Jr.,Chris Bond,Jason Booth,Jean-Luc Bouchard,Danny Bouffard,Tatjana Bozinovski,Matt Broeska,Suzanne Buirgy,Jeremy Buttell,Patrick Clancey,Sarah Coatts,Chad E. Collier,Emanuele Comotti,Matt Davis,Kent Demaine,Sean Devereaux,Peter Donen,Yann Doray,Tim Drnec,Conrad Dueck,Tim Everitt,Chia Evers,Mark Freund,Jammie Friday,Derry Frost,Colin Gagnon,Ben Grossmann,Christopher Gwynne,Scott Harper,Chris Harvey,Claas Henke,Brad Herman,Chris Holmes,Joel Hynek,Bruce Jones,Lincoln Kupchak,Markus Kurtz,Jennifer Law-Stump,Paul Luna,Margaux Mackay,Stefano Marinoni,Gray Marshall,William Mesa,Ben Mitchell,Larry Morgan,Michael Morreale,Heather J. Morrison,Peter W. Moyer,Davy Nethercutt,Erin Nicholson,David Niednagel,Dan Novy,Jeremy Oddo,Alessandro Ongaro,Phillip Palousek,Marco S. Paolini,Chris Pember,Kelly Port,Scott Ramsey,Will Robbins,Alex Romano,Robert Rowles,Mark Russell,Todd Sarsfield,Gregory S. Scribner,Todd Semmes,Michael Shand,Ben Britten Smith,Tess Spaulding,Nick Swartz,George Taylor,Raymond Thai,Susan Thurmond,Tommy Tran,Paola Trisoglio,Karen Troy,Archie Villaverde,Darren Wall,Shawn Wallbridge,Joseph Wartnerchaney,Jeffrey White,Chad Wiebe,Earl Wiggins,Ken Zorniak,Matthew Benware,Rhett Butler,Jesse James Chisholm,Jason Cobill,Lisa de la Garza,Jason Hughes,Dave Jacobs,Alex Jaeger,Kehlani,Mark Larranaga,Danny Lee,Brian Openshaw,Blair Werschler
Stunts Laura Albert,Matthew R. Anderson,Christopher Critter Antonucci,Dean Bailey,Ted Barba,Kenny Bates,Robin Lynn Bonaccorsi,Kurt Bryant,John Cade,Mauro Caterini,Phil Chong,Eliza Coleman,Eugene Collier,Rudy Courtade,Laurie Creach,Clay Cullen,Keith Splinter Davis,Tim A. Davison,Mitchell Dean,Shauna Duggins,Greg Wayne Elam,Jeannie Epper,Richard Epper,Donna Evans,Eddie Fiola,Michael Gaines,Marc C. Geschwind,Sean Graham,MaryKay Grant,Diego Guerra,Randy Hall,Tom Harper,Jimmy Hart,Jody Hart,Gene Hartline,John Hateley,Jim Holley,David Hugghins,Michael Hugghins,Gary Hymes,Kathy Jarvis,Rudy Jones,Akouala Cristel Julien,Steve Kelso,Bobby C. King,Henry Kingi,Barbara Anne Klein,Shawn Patrick Lane,Tony Lazzara,Frabrizio Lenci,Roberto Libertini,Johnny Martin,Mike Massa,Tom McComas,Ed McDermott II,Bennie Moore,Mirko Narduzzi,Ryan Negri,Alessandro Novelli,Jimmy Ortega,Michael Owen,Gianluca Petrazzi,Denney Pierce,Susan Purkhiser,Alan D. Purwin,Scotty Richards,Troy Robinson,Jimmy Romano,Jean Paul Ruggiero,Kurtis Sanders,Erik Stabenau,Monica Staggs,Sonny Surowiec,Vladimir Tevlovski,Greg Tracy,Dain Turner,Fred Usher,Gene Williams,Ty Williams,Eddie Wong,Chris Zaragoza,Mary Albee,John Alden,John Ashker,Rick Avery,Ted Barba,Kevin Beard,Joey Box,Bobby Burns,Jack Carpenter,Anthony Cecere,Manny Chavez,Brian Christensen,Dan Chudy,Doug Coleman,Lisa Dempsey,Thomas Dewier,Tom Elliott,Danny Epper,Sean Graham,Steve Griffin,Gary Guercio,Jeri Habberstad,Justin Rodgers Hall,Hollis Hill,Michael Hilow,Nicola C. Hindshaw,Viktor Ivanov,Claudette James,Kelsee King-Devoreaux,Jay Krueger,Tiffany Kyees,Michael R. Long,Eric Matuschek,Carl Milinac,Eve Miller,Rick Miller,Bob Minor,Gloria O Brien,Vladimir Orlov,Jane Oshita,Victor Paul,Robert Powell,Gary Price,Susan Purkhiser,Alan D. Purwin,Angelo Ragusa,Rex Reddick,Peter Rocca,Paul E. Short,Monica Staggs,Justin Sundquist,Ronn Surels,Sharon Swainson,Michael Trisler,Scott Waugh,Bill Willens,Keith Woulard,Jason Ybarra,Bill Young
Camera and Electrical Department Antar Abderrahman Jr.,Tim Alatorre,Mark Aldahl,Giovanni Andreotta,Curtis A. Andrews Jr.,Jeff Andrus,Pete Asidilla,Werner Bacciu,Greg Baldi,Chris Bangma,Claudette Barius,Hans Bjerno,Josh Bleibtreu,Shane Brott,James Brownlee,Nicola Bruso,Kevin Cadwallader,Fausto Cancellieri,Glenn Cannon,Kenny Carceller,Matteo Carlesimo,Tiziano Casanova,Paolo Centoni,Steve Charnow,Jeff Chassler,Fabio Ciotto,Michael Ray Collins,Jeffrey A. Cook,Thomas Crawford,James Spud Danicic,Glen Davis,Giovanni De Gaetano,Hanoi De La Paz,Jerry C. Deats,Matthew A. Del Ruth,Don Domino,Mandla Dube,Jerry Eubanks,Stefano Falivene,Ken Fisher,Michael FitzMaurice,Matt Floyd,Paolo Frasson,Chris Funk,Renan Galindo,Cory Geryak,Cristiano Giavedoni,David Giorgio,Seth Greenwald,Jason Griffiths,Steven A. Guerrero,Simone Gulli,Brooks P. Guyer,Bob Hall,Jay M. Huntoon,Jason Jensen,Jeffrey A. Johnson,David Katz,Matt Kennedy,Massimiliano Kuveiller,Josh Kuykendall,Christopher J. Lama,Dave Landaker,Jordan Lapsansky,Chuck Larson,Bryant Lemelle,Michael Leonard,Emanuele Leurini,Emiliano Leurini,David Luckenbach,Victor Major,Richard Mall,Brandon Margulies,Robert Matthews,Jim McComas,Daniel C. McFadden,Charlie McIntyre,John Joseph Minardi,Scot A. Nederman-Paul,Vince Onken,Elvis Pasqual,David Pearlberg,Ron Peterson,Steve Peterson,Michael Picarella,Blake Pike,Gary Pike,Ryan Pilon,Robbie Redner,Flaviano Ricci,Pete Romano,P. Scott Sakamoto,Paul Santoni,Paolo Sartori,David Scott,Joaquin Sedillo,David A. Seekins,Cristiano Sergioli,Philip Shanahan,Michael Shaw,Alec Shepherd,Cricket Sloat,Kurt E. Soderling,Tony Sommo,Dan Squires,Larry Sushinski,Kevin Tiesiera,Andriano Trinca,Francis X. Valdez III,Alexis van Kersen Li,Michael D. Weldon,Scott Whitbread,Brian Woronec,Peter Zuffa,Walter Byrnes,Steven J. Chambers,Josh Denering,Alan Jacoby,Michele Abramo Puricelli
Animation Department Tim Linklater
Casting Department Jennifer Bender,Daniela Foà,Barbara Harris,Tiziana Kinkela,Mike Lemon,Meg Morman
Costume and Wardrobe Department Fran Allgood,Robert Bolger,John Casey,Holly Davis,Brenda Donaho,Lisa A. Doyle,Becky Gelbart,Lori Harris,Frank Helmer,Cookie Lopez,Stephen Oh,Christine Orth,Tony Velasco,Catherine Buyse Dian
Editorial Department Paul Carrera,Brett Carroll,John Dietrick,Mark Fitzgerald,Donald Freeman,Sarah Ogletree,Jim Passon,Jennifer Spenelli,Michael Eaves,Hilda Saffari,Jim Schermerhorn
Location Management Billy Arrowood,Chris Baugh,Nicola Catullo,Michael Chickey,Tommaso Dabala,Katherine Dorrer,Tim Downs,Yoshi Enoki Jr.,Matteo Gottardis,Jane E. Graves,Ari Hyman,Zachary Kahn,Greg Lazzaro,Naomi Motohashi,Jill Naumann,John Panzarella,Kate Chase Pitzarella,Simona Serafini,Michael Soleau,Leslie Thorson,Victoria Leskin
Music Department Pete Anthony,Bob Bornstein,Thomas A. Carlson,David Channing,Sandy DeCrescent,George Doering,Elizabeth Finch,Bruce Fowler,Walt Fowler,Germaine Franco,Julianne Jordan,T.J. Lindgren,Jason Lloyd,Ladd McIntosh,James McKee Smith,Alan Meyerson,Yvonne S. Moriarty,Kathy Nelson,Photek,Michele Richards,Liza Richardson,Jay Selvester,John Ashton Thomas,Richard Ziegler,Denise Carver
Script and Continuity Department Dea Cantu,Rebecca Robertson
Transportation Department Chris Arnold,Rich Bennetti,Jeff Bova,Dave Calaway,Bryan C. Cawthon,David Diaz,Chris Gorden,Shane Greedy,William McCleery,Sean J. Moore,Fabrizio Prada,Jack Jay Reece,Brenda Ryan,Michael Scotty,Lin C. Smith,Rick S. Sulier,Dana Swartout,Paul Tumber,Ron Windred
Additional Crew Geoff Abadee,Geneviere Anderson,Jonelle S. Anderson,Jeff Andrus,Nana Ashong,Mauro Blanco,Denise Blasor,Kristine Bochum,Rino Bonavita,John Bonnin,Anna Bradley,Phil Bradshaw,Cory Cate,Al Cerullo,Claudia Cimmino,Bill Cleavelin,Curt Clendenin,Richard Cody,Flavio De Simone,B. Ted Deiker,Jeff Domis,Payton Spence Ewing,Aaron C. Fitzgerald,Miles Flewitt,Richard Fontenot,Mauro Fornea,Cory Foster,Laura J. Fox,Kenny Gallagher,Bernardo Galli,Sean Garcia,Sherrijon Gaspard,Marc C. Geschwind,Jenny Gienger,Paul Giorgi,Andrew Gose,John Hakala,Seth Hansen,Alexander Haupt,Todd Havern,David Hickey,Brian Hoven,Zac Jackson,Matthew Janzen,Lynn Johnson,Tish Johnson,Christopher Just Weaver,Gregg Kawecki,Kathleen Kelly,Jennifer Antoinette Kennedy,Beth Kono,Kyra Kowasic,Robyn L. Kreger,Tiffany Kyees,Efren Lapig,Gianluca Lazzaroni,Chris Lemos,Ted Leonard,Nathon S. Lewis,Sarah Lorenz,Matthew J. Lynch,Matt Mangum,Adam Martin,Maria Novella Martinoli,Nicola Marzano,Elise Mazanek,Monica McLeod,Meredith Meade,David Melito,David Mendoza,Karin Mercurio,Anna Metcalf,Jeremy Mullen,Marie Nashold,Ian Pauly,Jim Pearson,Lisa Pekar,Frank Pelluchon,Patrizia Pierucci,Sharon Pinkenson,William Ramirez Jr.,Mike Reichman,Alex Reveliotty,Anthony Reynolds,Cristi Rickey,Ryan Robertson,Greg Rodgers,Diane Rosenberg,Shauna Sanders,Chad Saxton,Brandon Schiffman,Tina Sen Gordon,Ben Skorstad,Lucas Solomon,Logan Sparks,Aaron Speiser,Gretchen Stevens,Cid Swank,Bernadette Tanchauco,Aillene Taylor,Anthony Thomas,Anita Tomaselli,Gretel Twombly,Michael P. Twombly,Lamont Tyler,Austin Wakefield,Eric Weinstein,Earl Wiggins,Heather P. Woods,LouAnn Wu,Garson Yu,Candy Carstensen,Claudia Cimmino,Jack E. Herman,Steve Kelso,Alexandra Marlin,David Milhous,Denise Mora,Spike Seldin,Jesse Wagler,Jeff Winn,Marc J. Zeltzer
Thanks Jeff Bowler,Kzar Torres
Genres Action, Crime, Thriller
Companies Paramount Pictures, De Line Pictures, Mestiere Cinema
Countries USA, France, Italy, UK, Germany
Languages English, Russian, Italian
ContentRating PG-13
ImDbRating 7
ImDbRatingVotes 367233
MetacriticRating 68
Keywords gold,cat,gold bar,scantily clad female,cleavage
Year 2003
ReleaseDate 2003-05-30
RuntimeMins 111
RuntimeStr 1h 51min
Plot After being betrayed and left for dead in Italy, Charlie Croker and his team plan an elaborate gold heist against their former ally.
Awards Awards, 7 wins & 9 nominations
Directors F. Gary Gray
Writers Troy Kennedy-Martin, Donna Powers, Wayne Powers
Stars Donald Sutherland, Mark Wahlberg, Edward Norton
Produced by Tim Bevan,Guido Cerasuolo,Donald De Line,James Dyer,Eric Fellner,Wendy Japhet,Lynsey Jones
Music by John Powell
Cinematography by Wally Pfister
Film Editing by Richard Francis-Bruce,Christopher Rouse
Casting By Sheila Jaffe
Production Design by Charles Wood
Art Direction by Doug J. Meerdink,Mark Zuelzke
Set Decoration by Denise Pizzini
Costume Design by Mark Bridges
Makeup Department Enzo Angileri,Germicka Barclay,Christalee,Sterfon Demings,Tina Earnshaw,Frank Fontaine,Joan Giacomin,Andrea Jackson,Eileen Kastner-Delago,Donald Mowat,Shane Paish,Zoe Tahir,Brian A. Tunstall,Johnny Villanueva,Camille Henderson
Production Management Enrico Ballarin,Matthew J. Birch,Laura Cappato,Fabrizio Cerato,James Dyer,Stefano Dalla Lana,Kiki Morris,Paolo Rosada,David Sardi
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director Vincent Agostino,Kenny Bates,Consuelo Bidorini,Alex Corven,Bettina Godi,Doug Metzger,Richard Oswald,Timothy R. Price,Ethan Ross,Davide Sacchetti,David Sardi,Hillary Schwartz,Jeff Shiffman,Brian Steward,Cecilia Sweatman,Pat Wiss,Alexander Witt,Christopher Wolfe,Marco Zanon,James LaRocca
Art Department Doreen Austria,Daniele Bacciu,Beth Bajuk,Andrea Bari,James R. Bayliss,Michael A. Belgrave,Charles W. Belisle,David Benavides,Kelly Berry,Jon Billington,Jerry Brooks,Chris Buchinsky,Shane Buckallew,Craig Byrom,Rick Chavez,Don Tex Clark,Gary Clark,Ryan D. Compton,Jack Cornelius,Darrin Denlinger,John David Diersing,Michael Diersing,Timothy M. Earls,Sandro Ercolini,Francesco franco Ferrara,Chad Fontaine,James Fox,Scott Garrett,Trevor Goring,Scott E. Handt,Regina Henderson,Phillip A. Henry,Audrey A. Johnson,Kent H. Johnson,Kyra Kowasic,Mark Kudra,Janet Kusnick,George Lee,Robert Lucas,Jim Magdaleno,Robert Cass McEntee,Martin Milligan,Joe Monaco,Joseph Musso,Marny Nahrwold,Richard Rocky Nichols,Greg Papalia,Stephen Pietropaolo,Brent Regan,Michael Reichman,Bruce Richter,Greg Rocco,Priscilla Rossi,Darlene Salinas,David Sandefur,Hugo Santiago,Ralph Sarabia,Kenneth Sayers,Jeff Shewbert,Danielle Simpson,Hunter Lee Soik,David Sues,Karen Teneyck,Sally Thornton,Kenneth Turek,Ely Vegh,Susanna Codognato,David Keir,Scott Lafferty,Gary Lock,Jim Orr,Bob West,Frank White
Sound Department Douglas B. Arnold,Fernando Ascani,Bob Baron,Bryan Bowen,Dick Bray,Raul A. Bruce,Fred Burke,Ed Callahan,Roberto Cappannelli,Gail Carroll-Coe,Victor Ray Ennis,John P. Fasal,Tammy Fearing,Frank Fleming,Kevin Globerman,Jeff Gomillion,Mark Gordon,Robert Gravenor,Robin Harlan,Teddy Hiraoko,Ethan Holzman,Chris Jenkins,Kenneth L. Johnson,Michael Kamper,Doc Kane,Randy Kelley,Susan Kurtz,Sarah Monat,Frank A. Montaño,Ronnie Morgan,Alex Names,Chris Navarro,Thomas O Neil Younkman,Mark Ormandy,Willard Overstreet,Michele Perrone,Vic Radulich,Alan Rankin,Philip Rogers,Randy Singer,Thomas W. Small,Frank Smathers,Mark P. Stoeckinger,Mike Szakmeister,Travis Tan,Eric Thompson,Nancy Truman,Christopher Walmer,Christopher T. Welch,Peter Zinda,Douglas J. Schulman
Special Effects by Eric Allard,Bart Barber,Gary D. Bierend,Chris Brenczewski,Darrell Burgess,Tony Chavez,Antonio Corridori,Giovanni Corridori,Maurizio Corridori,Stefano Corridori,Mike Edmonson,Michael Gaspar,Michael Holland,Woody Lawhon,Dave T. MacDonald,Barry McQueary,Joe D. Ramsey,Mark Yuricich
Visual Effects by Paal Anand,Scott Anderson,Roger Andersson,Geoffrey Baumann,Melissa Best,Cosmas Paul Bolger Jr.,Chris Bond,Jason Booth,Jean-Luc Bouchard,Danny Bouffard,Tatjana Bozinovski,Matt Broeska,Suzanne Buirgy,Jeremy Buttell,Patrick Clancey,Sarah Coatts,Chad E. Collier,Emanuele Comotti,Matt Davis,Kent Demaine,Sean Devereaux,Peter Donen,Yann Doray,Tim Drnec,Conrad Dueck,Tim Everitt,Chia Evers,Mark Freund,Jammie Friday,Derry Frost,Colin Gagnon,Ben Grossmann,Christopher Gwynne,Scott Harper,Chris Harvey,Claas Henke,Brad Herman,Chris Holmes,Joel Hynek,Bruce Jones,Lincoln Kupchak,Markus Kurtz,Jennifer Law-Stump,Paul Luna,Margaux Mackay,Stefano Marinoni,Gray Marshall,William Mesa,Ben Mitchell,Larry Morgan,Michael Morreale,Heather J. Morrison,Peter W. Moyer,Davy Nethercutt,Erin Nicholson,David Niednagel,Dan Novy,Jeremy Oddo,Alessandro Ongaro,Phillip Palousek,Marco S. Paolini,Chris Pember,Kelly Port,Scott Ramsey,Will Robbins,Alex Romano,Robert Rowles,Mark Russell,Todd Sarsfield,Gregory S. Scribner,Todd Semmes,Michael Shand,Ben Britten Smith,Tess Spaulding,Nick Swartz,George Taylor,Raymond Thai,Susan Thurmond,Tommy Tran,Paola Trisoglio,Karen Troy,Archie Villaverde,Darren Wall,Shawn Wallbridge,Joseph Wartnerchaney,Jeffrey White,Chad Wiebe,Earl Wiggins,Ken Zorniak,Matthew Benware,Rhett Butler,Jesse James Chisholm,Jason Cobill,Lisa de la Garza,Jason Hughes,Dave Jacobs,Alex Jaeger,Kehlani,Mark Larranaga,Danny Lee,Brian Openshaw,Blair Werschler
Stunts Laura Albert,Matthew R. Anderson,Christopher Critter Antonucci,Dean Bailey,Ted Barba,Kenny Bates,Robin Lynn Bonaccorsi,Kurt Bryant,John Cade,Mauro Caterini,Phil Chong,Eliza Coleman,Eugene Collier,Rudy Courtade,Laurie Creach,Clay Cullen,Keith Splinter Davis,Tim A. Davison,Mitchell Dean,Shauna Duggins,Greg Wayne Elam,Jeannie Epper,Richard Epper,Donna Evans,Eddie Fiola,Michael Gaines,Marc C. Geschwind,Sean Graham,MaryKay Grant,Diego Guerra,Randy Hall,Tom Harper,Jimmy Hart,Jody Hart,Gene Hartline,John Hateley,Jim Holley,David Hugghins,Michael Hugghins,Gary Hymes,Kathy Jarvis,Rudy Jones,Akouala Cristel Julien,Steve Kelso,Bobby C. King,Henry Kingi,Barbara Anne Klein,Shawn Patrick Lane,Tony Lazzara,Frabrizio Lenci,Roberto Libertini,Johnny Martin,Mike Massa,Tom McComas,Ed McDermott II,Bennie Moore,Mirko Narduzzi,Ryan Negri,Alessandro Novelli,Jimmy Ortega,Michael Owen,Gianluca Petrazzi,Denney Pierce,Susan Purkhiser,Alan D. Purwin,Scotty Richards,Troy Robinson,Jimmy Romano,Jean Paul Ruggiero,Kurtis Sanders,Erik Stabenau,Monica Staggs,Sonny Surowiec,Vladimir Tevlovski,Greg Tracy,Dain Turner,Fred Usher,Gene Williams,Ty Williams,Eddie Wong,Chris Zaragoza,Mary Albee,John Alden,John Ashker,Rick Avery,Ted Barba,Kevin Beard,Joey Box,Bobby Burns,Jack Carpenter,Anthony Cecere,Manny Chavez,Brian Christensen,Dan Chudy,Doug Coleman,Lisa Dempsey,Thomas Dewier,Tom Elliott,Danny Epper,Sean Graham,Steve Griffin,Gary Guercio,Jeri Habberstad,Justin Rodgers Hall,Hollis Hill,Michael Hilow,Nicola C. Hindshaw,Viktor Ivanov,Claudette James,Kelsee King-Devoreaux,Jay Krueger,Tiffany Kyees,Michael R. Long,Eric Matuschek,Carl Milinac,Eve Miller,Rick Miller,Bob Minor,Gloria O Brien,Vladimir Orlov,Jane Oshita,Victor Paul,Robert Powell,Gary Price,Susan Purkhiser,Alan D. Purwin,Angelo Ragusa,Rex Reddick,Peter Rocca,Paul E. Short,Monica Staggs,Justin Sundquist,Ronn Surels,Sharon Swainson,Michael Trisler,Scott Waugh,Bill Willens,Keith Woulard,Jason Ybarra,Bill Young
Camera and Electrical Department Antar Abderrahman Jr.,Tim Alatorre,Mark Aldahl,Giovanni Andreotta,Curtis A. Andrews Jr.,Jeff Andrus,Pete Asidilla,Werner Bacciu,Greg Baldi,Chris Bangma,Claudette Barius,Hans Bjerno,Josh Bleibtreu,Shane Brott,James Brownlee,Nicola Bruso,Kevin Cadwallader,Fausto Cancellieri,Glenn Cannon,Kenny Carceller,Matteo Carlesimo,Tiziano Casanova,Paolo Centoni,Steve Charnow,Jeff Chassler,Fabio Ciotto,Michael Ray Collins,Jeffrey A. Cook,Thomas Crawford,James Spud Danicic,Glen Davis,Giovanni De Gaetano,Hanoi De La Paz,Jerry C. Deats,Matthew A. Del Ruth,Don Domino,Mandla Dube,Jerry Eubanks,Stefano Falivene,Ken Fisher,Michael FitzMaurice,Matt Floyd,Paolo Frasson,Chris Funk,Renan Galindo,Cory Geryak,Cristiano Giavedoni,David Giorgio,Seth Greenwald,Jason Griffiths,Steven A. Guerrero,Simone Gulli,Brooks P. Guyer,Bob Hall,Jay M. Huntoon,Jason Jensen,Jeffrey A. Johnson,David Katz,Matt Kennedy,Massimiliano Kuveiller,Josh Kuykendall,Christopher J. Lama,Dave Landaker,Jordan Lapsansky,Chuck Larson,Bryant Lemelle,Michael Leonard,Emanuele Leurini,Emiliano Leurini,David Luckenbach,Victor Major,Richard Mall,Brandon Margulies,Robert Matthews,Jim McComas,Daniel C. McFadden,Charlie McIntyre,John Joseph Minardi,Scot A. Nederman-Paul,Vince Onken,Elvis Pasqual,David Pearlberg,Ron Peterson,Steve Peterson,Michael Picarella,Blake Pike,Gary Pike,Ryan Pilon,Robbie Redner,Flaviano Ricci,Pete Romano,P. Scott Sakamoto,Paul Santoni,Paolo Sartori,David Scott,Joaquin Sedillo,David A. Seekins,Cristiano Sergioli,Philip Shanahan,Michael Shaw,Alec Shepherd,Cricket Sloat,Kurt E. Soderling,Tony Sommo,Dan Squires,Larry Sushinski,Kevin Tiesiera,Andriano Trinca,Francis X. Valdez III,Alexis van Kersen Li,Michael D. Weldon,Scott Whitbread,Brian Woronec,Peter Zuffa,Walter Byrnes,Steven J. Chambers,Josh Denering,Alan Jacoby,Michele Abramo Puricelli
Animation Department Tim Linklater
Casting Department Jennifer Bender,Daniela Foà,Barbara Harris,Tiziana Kinkela,Mike Lemon,Meg Morman
Costume and Wardrobe Department Fran Allgood,Robert Bolger,John Casey,Holly Davis,Brenda Donaho,Lisa A. Doyle,Becky Gelbart,Lori Harris,Frank Helmer,Cookie Lopez,Stephen Oh,Christine Orth,Tony Velasco,Catherine Buyse Dian
Editorial Department Paul Carrera,Brett Carroll,John Dietrick,Mark Fitzgerald,Donald Freeman,Sarah Ogletree,Jim Passon,Jennifer Spenelli,Michael Eaves,Hilda Saffari,Jim Schermerhorn
Location Management Billy Arrowood,Chris Baugh,Nicola Catullo,Michael Chickey,Tommaso Dabala,Katherine Dorrer,Tim Downs,Yoshi Enoki Jr.,Matteo Gottardis,Jane E. Graves,Ari Hyman,Zachary Kahn,Greg Lazzaro,Naomi Motohashi,Jill Naumann,John Panzarella,Kate Chase Pitzarella,Simona Serafini,Michael Soleau,Leslie Thorson,Victoria Leskin
Music Department Pete Anthony,Bob Bornstein,Thomas A. Carlson,David Channing,Sandy DeCrescent,George Doering,Elizabeth Finch,Bruce Fowler,Walt Fowler,Germaine Franco,Julianne Jordan,T.J. Lindgren,Jason Lloyd,Ladd McIntosh,James McKee Smith,Alan Meyerson,Yvonne S. Moriarty,Kathy Nelson,Photek,Michele Richards,Liza Richardson,Jay Selvester,John Ashton Thomas,Richard Ziegler,Denise Carver
Script and Continuity Department Dea Cantu,Rebecca Robertson
Transportation Department Chris Arnold,Rich Bennetti,Jeff Bova,Dave Calaway,Bryan C. Cawthon,David Diaz,Chris Gorden,Shane Greedy,William McCleery,Sean J. Moore,Fabrizio Prada,Jack Jay Reece,Brenda Ryan,Michael Scotty,Lin C. Smith,Rick S. Sulier,Dana Swartout,Paul Tumber,Ron Windred
Additional Crew Geoff Abadee,Geneviere Anderson,Jonelle S. Anderson,Jeff Andrus,Nana Ashong,Mauro Blanco,Denise Blasor,Kristine Bochum,Rino Bonavita,John Bonnin,Anna Bradley,Phil Bradshaw,Cory Cate,Al Cerullo,Claudia Cimmino,Bill Cleavelin,Curt Clendenin,Richard Cody,Flavio De Simone,B. Ted Deiker,Jeff Domis,Payton Spence Ewing,Aaron C. Fitzgerald,Miles Flewitt,Richard Fontenot,Mauro Fornea,Cory Foster,Laura J. Fox,Kenny Gallagher,Bernardo Galli,Sean Garcia,Sherrijon Gaspard,Marc C. Geschwind,Jenny Gienger,Paul Giorgi,Andrew Gose,John Hakala,Seth Hansen,Alexander Haupt,Todd Havern,David Hickey,Brian Hoven,Zac Jackson,Matthew Janzen,Lynn Johnson,Tish Johnson,Christopher Just Weaver,Gregg Kawecki,Kathleen Kelly,Jennifer Antoinette Kennedy,Beth Kono,Kyra Kowasic,Robyn L. Kreger,Tiffany Kyees,Efren Lapig,Gianluca Lazzaroni,Chris Lemos,Ted Leonard,Nathon S. Lewis,Sarah Lorenz,Matthew J. Lynch,Matt Mangum,Adam Martin,Maria Novella Martinoli,Nicola Marzano,Elise Mazanek,Monica McLeod,Meredith Meade,David Melito,David Mendoza,Karin Mercurio,Anna Metcalf,Jeremy Mullen,Marie Nashold,Ian Pauly,Jim Pearson,Lisa Pekar,Frank Pelluchon,Patrizia Pierucci,Sharon Pinkenson,William Ramirez Jr.,Mike Reichman,Alex Reveliotty,Anthony Reynolds,Cristi Rickey,Ryan Robertson,Greg Rodgers,Diane Rosenberg,Shauna Sanders,Chad Saxton,Brandon Schiffman,Tina Sen Gordon,Ben Skorstad,Lucas Solomon,Logan Sparks,Aaron Speiser,Gretchen Stevens,Cid Swank,Bernadette Tanchauco,Aillene Taylor,Anthony Thomas,Anita Tomaselli,Gretel Twombly,Michael P. Twombly,Lamont Tyler,Austin Wakefield,Eric Weinstein,Earl Wiggins,Heather P. Woods,LouAnn Wu,Garson Yu,Candy Carstensen,Claudia Cimmino,Jack E. Herman,Steve Kelso,Alexandra Marlin,David Milhous,Denise Mora,Spike Seldin,Jesse Wagler,Jeff Winn,Marc J. Zeltzer
Thanks Jeff Bowler,Kzar Torres
Genres Action, Crime, Thriller
Companies Paramount Pictures, De Line Pictures, Mestiere Cinema
Countries USA, France, Italy, UK, Germany
Languages English, Russian, Italian
ContentRating PG-13
ImDbRating 7
ImDbRatingVotes 367233
MetacriticRating 68
Keywords gold,cat,gold bar,scantily clad female,cleavage