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The Italian Job: Directed by Peter Collinson. With Michael Caine, Noël Coward, Benny Hill, Raf Vallone. A comic caper movie about a plan to steal a gold shipment from the streets of Turin by creating a traffic jam.
- Peter Collinson
- 4 min
30 de mai. de 2003 · The Italian Job: Directed by F. Gary Gray. With Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Donald Sutherland, Jason Statham. After being betrayed and left for dead in Italy, Charlie Croker and his team plan an elaborate gold heist against their former ally.
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- Action, Crime, Thriller
- F. Gary Gray
- 2003-05-30
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Professional safecracker John Bridger's team have plans to steal $35 million worth of gold bullion from a safe in Venice from Italian gangsters who had stolen it weeks earlier. Professional fixer Charlie Croker, computer expert Lyle or "Napster", wheelman Handsome Rob, inside man Steve, and explosives expert Left Ear comprise the team. Although the...
Mark Wahlberg as Charlie Croker, the team's leader, master thief and professional fixer. 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.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 [they] 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...
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 She...
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. I...
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 behind Bruce Almighty and Finding Nemo. Paramount re-released the film on August 29, and by the time its theatrical release closed in November, the film had grossed $106.1 million in the United States and Canada, and $69.9 million in other territo...
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, The Italian Job holds an approval rating of 72% based on 181 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 calculated an average score of 68 out of 100 based on 37 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScoregave the film an avera...
Home media
The Italian Job was released on DVD and VHS 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 DiscOctober 24, 2006.
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...
The Italian Job at IMDbThe Italian Job at AllMovieThe Italian Job at the TCM Movie Database- $176.1 million
- John Powell
- $60 million
- Donald De Line
The Italian Job is a 1969 British comedy caper film written by Troy Kennedy Martin, produced by Michael Deeley, directed by Peter Collinson, and starring Michael Caine. The film's plot centres on Cockney criminal Charlie Croker, recently released from prison, who forms a gang for the job of stealing a cache of gold bullion being ...
- $3 million
- Peter Collinson
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. Read Critics Reviews
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- F. Gary Gray
- PG-13
- Mark Wahlberg
The Italian Job (em Portugal, "Um Golpe em Itália", no Brasil, "Uma Saída de Mestre") é um filme de assalto de ação, uma refilmagem norte-americana de 2003 do filme homônimo britânico de 1969, dirigido por F. Gary Gray e estrelado por Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Jason Statham, Seth Green, Mos Def e Donald ...
Led by John Bridger ( Donald Sutherland) and Charlie Croker ( Mark Wahlberg) a team is assembled for one last heist to steal $35 million in gold bars from a heavily guarded safe in Venice, Italy. After successfully pulling off the heist, a team member, Steve ( Edward Norton ), driven by greed and jealousy, arranges to take the gold for himself ...
