SYNOPSIS
Nick Wells (Robert De Niro) has had enough. A meticulous, thoroughly professional and highly successful international thief, Nick is ready to retire from crime. He’ll settle down with his girlfriend, Diane (Angela Bassett), and focus on running his legitimate business: a Montreal jazz club. But Max (Marlon Brando), his fence, friend and financial partner, has other plans for him.
Persuading Nick to violate two of his most important rules – always work alone and never operate in the city where you live – Max teams him up with Jackie Teller (Edward Norton). A young, aggressive and talented thief, Jackie needs Nick’s safe-cracking talents to make his first big score: a prize worth millions locked behind the walls of Montreal’s Customs House.
It’s a volatile combination in which egos clash and sparks fly, but the thrill of the heist has a grip on all three men, who won’t give up no matter the risk of capture…or betrayal.
